Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been running football clubs for over five years now.
It all started in the Swiss city of Lausanne, situated on the picturesque Lake Geneva, which the International Olympic Committee calls home, just as Ratcliffe's chemicals company INEOS also did for some seven years. November 2017 marked the British businessman's first move into football by buying the city's for-sale side FC Lausanne-Sport.
Within two years, another club, OGC Nice, was added to the INEOS Sport stable, which already included a cycling franchise and sailing team. The football expansion could continue even further, having since also acquired Ivory Coast-based Racing Club Abidjan, in the coming months should a proposed takeover of Manchester United by the boyhood supporter come to fruition.
