{"id":1229,"date":"2024-02-06T05:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/manchester-united-sir-jim-ratcliffe-reaches-significant-agreement-with-glazers-as-details-of-meeting-surface\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T05:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T05:37:49","slug":"manchester-united-sir-jim-ratcliffe-reaches-significant-agreement-with-glazers-as-details-of-meeting-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/manchester-united-sir-jim-ratcliffe-reaches-significant-agreement-with-glazers-as-details-of-meeting-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United: Sir Jim Ratcliffe reaches significant agreement with Glazers as details of meeting surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SEC filing has revealed the details of the meeting, during which Ratcliffe&#8217;s voting power at Old Trafford was confirmed. The 71-year-old tycoon is awaiting Premier League ratification on the deal that will see INEOS inherit total control of the club&#8217;s football operations and also an influence in commercial matters.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe&#8217;s 29 per cent stake in United is reportedly unlikely to become official this week as the Premier League dots the i&#8217;s and crosses the t&#8217;s in the complex agreement. But that confirmation is expected by mid-February when he can accelerate plans to overhaul his lifelong club on the pitch and off it in search of restoring success.<\/p>\n<p>The holders of 1,133,983,149 votes of the United&#8217;s Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares were present in person or represented by proxy. Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out at any time. More info<\/p>\n<p>The filing confirmed the approval of a special resolution to create &#8220;a new amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to, among other things, provide for certain transfers of Class B ordinary shares without conversion of such shares into Class A ordinary shares.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe ensured he was guaranteed the ability to buy the Glazers&#8217; B shares and retain their enhanced voting power while striking his \u00a31.3bn agreement with the American owners. Despite the Glazer siblings accepting the demands, it was still a matter required to be formally voted on by United&#8217;s shareholders, as it remains a public company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SEC filing has revealed the details of the meeting, during which Ratcliffe&#8217;s voting power at Old Trafford was confirmed. The 71-year-old tycoon is awaiting Premier League ratification on the deal that will see INEOS inherit total control of the club&#8217;s football operations and also an influence in commercial matters. Ratcliffe&#8217;s 29 per cent stake&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}