Pressure is growing on Manchester United’s owners to decide whether they are serious about selling the club after rival bidders Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani both tabled second offers for the 13-time Premier League champions.
Ratcliffe and Sheikh Jassim still haven’t met the Glazer family’s £6billion valuation - and are understood to both be more than £1billion short of the asking price being demanded.
But it can be revealed that the two billionaires will now seek guarantees that the Americans actually want to relinquish control at Old Trafford before deciding on how to proceed.