{"id":11536,"date":"2023-04-15T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/soccer-carlyle-in-talks-to\/"},"modified":"2023-04-15T09:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T09:34:38","slug":"soccer-carlyle-in-talks-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/soccer-carlyle-in-talks-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer-Carlyle in talks to take stake in Manchester United &#8211; Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group Inc is in talks about a &#8220;major&#8221; investment in Manchester United as the auction of the Premier League soccer club enters its final stages, Sky News reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Carlyle was one of a handful of parties vying for a minority stake in the Old Trafford club, the report said, adding that the exact details of the proposal, including the investment amount and deal structure, were yet to be finalised. <\/p>\n<p>Carlyle did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. Manchester United declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s American owners, the Glazer family, launched a formal sale process late last year and have received several bids, including from Qatar&#8217;s Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe.<\/p>\n<p>Sports industry news site Sportico reported this month that Manchester United would accept a third round of bids from prospective buyers at the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Glazers bought Manchester United in 2005 for 790 million pounds in a highly leveraged deal that has been criticised for loading debt on to the club.<\/p>\n<p>United have won the English top-flight title a record 20 times but their last triumph was in 2013.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Yana Gaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Alex Richardson and Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/soccer-carlyle-in-talks-to\/file-photo-europa-league-round-of-16-first\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E02M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E02M-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/soccer-carlyle-in-talks-to\/file-photo-a-general-view-of-the-lobby-outside-the\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E02N-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E02N-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -U.S. buyout firm Carlyle Group Inc is in talks about a &#8220;major&#8221; investment in Manchester United as the auction of the Premier League soccer club enters its final stages, Sky News reported on Saturday. Carlyle was one of a handful of parties vying for a minority stake in the Old Trafford club, the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1219],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-sports","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3E02M-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11566,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions\/11566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}