“Member associations shall ensure that neither a natural nor a legal person (including holding companies and subsidiaries) exercises control or influence over more than one of their clubs whenever the integrity of any match or competition organised at member association level could be jeopardised. Member associations shall include such an obligation in their statutes and lay down the necessary implementing provisions.”
Article 7 of the UEFA rulebook is unequivocal. Should Qatari interest in buying Manchester United from the Glazer family materialise into a potential takeover, it may also prove the biggest hurdle to a transaction being completed.
On Tuesday night the Daily Mail reported that a “number of wealthy individuals” from Qatar were merging to make an offer to buy the Old Trafford club in a potential record sale of a sports team.
