A CONSORTIUM of Far East businessmen have put together a £1 BILLION deal to buy Manchester United.

The group of six billionaires have spent three months on a deal they hope is too good for Malcolm Glazer to reject.

Two consortium members are keen United fans who have twice visited Old Trafford this year to watch Sir Alex Ferguson and his players in Premier League action.

Based in Bangkok, the consortium wants to buy out the Glazer family and put an end to the financial balancing act which has engulfed the world's biggest football club.

A financial source in Bangkok said: "All the finances are in place and they are ready to approach the Glazers.

"They have done their homework down to the minutest detail and realise the Glazers are under pressure to service their mounting debts.

"If ever there was a time for United to be vulnerable to a buyout, it is now."

Our source added: "Make no mistake, this could be the biggest football deal of all time.

"Roman Abramovich's investment in Chelsea will be nothing compared to this. If the Glazers are ready to sell, the money is absolutely on the table."

The consortium would also be willing to take a part-share in United if the Glazers did not want to relinquish total control.
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this match is crap watching first half and nothing worth noting has happened not a hope of title contention from arsenal even

Darren Fletcher was robbed of his place in the European Cup final after the referee in the semi-final wrongly judged him to have fouled Cesc Fabregas in the penalty area.

Barcelona’s midfield ripped us to shreds and we will always be left to wonder what would have happened if Fletcher had been playing. The fact that Michael Carrick was playing with a broken toe only adds to the shambles that was our midfield that evening.

Fletch has revealed in United We Stand that after the Arsenal game he had to console his distraught family with promises of reaching another Champions League final.


“I try not to dwell on it and it has made me more determined to get there again,” said Fletcher. “When I got sent-off against Arsenal, I had my little sisters and mum crying on the phone. They were not at the game but I called them straight after. I saw the missed calls on my phone. Mum and dad and my three little sisters – they were distraught. They are 10, 16 and a year younger than me. I had to put a brave face on it and promised that I would drag the lads to another Champions League final. I said, ‘what’s meant to be will be’, and then I decided to concentrate on winning the league with United. I had to take it on the chin and not let it affect me.”


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• The first player to score at Old Trafford.
  
• The first player sent off in a Manchester Derby game.
  
• The only scorer in 1909 FA Cup Final.
  
• An early rebel fighting for, what today has become, the PFA.
  
• Even now, 100 years later, he is still our club's 19th highest scorer of all time.
  

These are the teams that United can be drawn against:

Bayern Munich
VfB Stuttgart
Inter Milan
A.C. Milan
Lyon
FC Porto
Olympiakos

And these are the teams they cannot be drawn against:

Liverpool FC


Arsenal
Barcelona
Bordeaux
Chelsea
Fiorentina
Real Madrid
Sevilla


Runners-up in Group B
CSKA Moscow

The draw which takes place on Friday 18th December will see United be paired over two legs against one team of Two German Clubs, Two Italian, one French, one Portuguese & one Greek. United have actually played all of the teams they could play in Europe previously.