Manchester United: Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus says he has made bid for club

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Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus says helium has submitted a bid to bargain Manchester United.

Zilliacus wants to bargain fractional of the nine with the purchasing of the different fractional by fans, who volition beryllium progressive successful the club's decision-making process.

Interested parties had until 21:00 GMT connected Wednesday to enactment their bids successful but the deadline has since been extended.

"Any athletics nine yet should beryllium to its fans. My bid is built connected equality with fans," said Zilliacus.

"The existent development, wherever billionaire sheiks and oligarchs instrumentality implicit clubs and power them arsenic their idiosyncratic playgrounds is not a steadfast trend.

"The existent marketplace worth of the nine is conscionable nether $3.9bn (£3.17bn). That means that if each 1 of the fans of the nine would articulation successful buying the club, the full sum per instrumentality would magnitude to little than $6.

"My radical volition concern fractional of the sum needed to instrumentality implicit the club, and volition inquire the fans, done a caller institution that is being acceptable up for this circumstantial purpose, to enactment for the different half.

"If each instrumentality joins it means little than $3 per fan."

Zilliacus plans to springiness fans a accidental done an app from which they tin "participate and cast" their ballot "when deciding connected footballing matters relating to the club".

Ineos proprietor Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim are the lone publically declared bidders and are expected to taxable second, revised offers having met with United officials earlier successful March.

It is besides understood US concern institution Elliott has made an connection to acquisition a number stake, irrespective of who ends up owning the club.

Zilliacus, who has antecedently been progressive with HJK Helsinki and crystal hockey champions Jokerit successful his homeland, is the laminitis and president of caller societal media radical novaM Group.

He wants to bargain United done XXI Century Capital, which is an concern steadfast owned by his holding company.

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