UEFA may allow teams with the same owner to compete for European trophies in a change that could have huge ramifications for the potential takeover of Manchester United.
Teams with the same owner - such as Brighton and Belgian side Union Saint-Gilloise, both majority-owned by Tony Bloom - are currently prohibited from facing each other in European competition due to issues of sporting integrity. But UEFA's president Aleksander Ceferin has detailed a rethink that could alter the rules.
United received formal bids for a majority or full takeover of the club last month, with both Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani and Sir Jim Ratcliffe having relationships with clubs in France's Ligue 1 - the latter's INEOS group owns Nice while Sheikh Jassim's links with the Qatari state, who own Paris Saint-Germain, have been a point of concern.
