Manchester United’s owners, the Glazer family, are in talks to take over Indian football club East Bengal.
The news came via the unlikely source of Indian cricket legend Sourav Ganguly, who spoke about the takeover talks in his guise as president of Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday. “Yes we have spoken to them and others also. It will take 10 to 12 more days to know who will be the entity,” Ganguly said. Asked whether United’s owners would be joining East Bengal as investors, Ganguly added: "No no, as an owner."
United have previously been involved with East Bengal, but in a very different way. They had agreed to play a friendly against East Bengal at Yuvabharati Krirangan Stadium in Salt Lake, Kolkata, back in 2020, only for the Covid-19 pandemic to get in the way. But a takeover by the Glazer family, which is being arranged by a former Indian cricket captain, is quite a different story.
