MOSCOW, Aug 10 purchase of the English football club Manchester United from the Glazer family. In 1989, Knighton made an unsuccessful attempt to buy Manchester United for 20 million pounds, after which he took a position on the club's board. «The club is in crisis, and we all know why. us incompetent and frankly useless owners who understand little about football Everyone knows the club needs a new owner and I am working on it with sufficient connections and finances I intend to present a legitimate and commercially powerful offer to the current owners stating that their time came out,» Knighton was quoted by the Manchester Evening News with reference to Man Utd The Religion. Man Utd's majority stake is owned by the Glazer family from the United States. Fans of the «Red Devils» have repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the policy of the club's owners.
