Ex- Manchester United director Michael Knighton has confirmed that he's planning to buy the club from the Glazer family.
The flamboyant 70-year-old businessman, who famously came close to buying the club in 1989, hopes to submit a formal bid as part of a consortium which aims to end the Glazers' tumultuous 17-year-old reign. Red Devils fans continue to rally against their American owners, with an anti-Glazer protest drawing support from hundreds ahead of United's first Premier League game of the season on Sunday.
A peaceful march from Media City to Old Trafford preceded Erik ten Hag 's side suffering a calamitous 2-1 defeat at the hands of Brighton, but there could be hope for those disgruntled Red Devils fans thanks to Knighton's takeover plot. In an interview with Man Utd The Religion, the former infamous Carlisle United owner - once labelled "the most reviled man in Cumbria" - revealed that he's "ready and waiting" to shepherd in a "hostile" bid that can usurp the "useless" Glazers.
