Michael Knighton

Michael Knighton juggles a ball at Old Trafford on 19 August 1989. Thirty years ago he arrived on the scene at Manchester United bearing the revolutionary gift of ideas for the transformation of the clubs fortunes.

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A former director of Manchester United Ltd.

. Former Manchester United director Michael Knighton has been in the news lately following his expression of interest to. PA I think history has proved without question that in 1989 I. Born October 4 1951 Michael Knighton was raised in Derbyshire and spent most of his youth playing football.

Chelsea were recently bought for 425billion and its estimated United would sell for a similar figure. The 70-year-old is a former director at Old Trafford who came close to buying the. Manchester United are set to be the subject of a new takeover bid from flamboyant businessman Michael Knighton.

Back in 1989 Michael Knighton famously bought Manchester United and then ripped up the contract for a place on the board. Manchester United could soon be under new ownership if Michael Knighton is successful in his mission to buy the Red Devils - a potential issue for Arsenal Chelsea and Tottenham Chelseas major Frenkie de Jong obstacle as. Michael Knighton has claimed that he is planning a hostile takeover of Manchester United amid further fan protests against the Glazer family.

Michael Knighton has a 57 million net worth. Knighton tried to buy United in 1989. Controversial former Carlisle United owner Michael Knighton has claimed he is preparing a hostile bid to take over Manchester United.

Michael Knighton is one of the most notable football entrepreneurs of his generation. Michael Knightons search for investors to form a consortium to buy Manchester United Football Club continues and here is the full updatePlus. In August 1989 Michael Knighton celebrated his Manchester United takeover deal at Old Trafford.

As a teenager Knighton represented Coventry City as an apprentice for a. Visionary tells the inside story of his time at Old Trafford a crucial incendiary era in Uniteds. A new video and interview with Michael Knighton has emerged online in which he states that a hostile bid from him and his consortium is edging closer as he looks to remove the Glazer ownership.

But the plotting against him had just begun. Michael Knighton who tried and failed to buy Man United in 1989 and famously juggled the ball at the Stretford End - claims he wants to buy the club AGAIN from the Glazers in hostile takeover. According to The Sun Michael was forced to back out.

His visionary blueprint transforme. Michael Knighton with Sir Alex Ferguson in 1989 before his takeover of United fell through Image. Biography extracted from the artists website in 2008 Kongthin Pearlmich or simply KP is an artist an interior designer a furniture maker a painter a sculptor a poet and wilful isolationist-cum-secretive recluse.

MANU -139 Michael Knighton is planning to submit a bid to buy the operator of the UK-based football club from the Glazer family according to a. The ex-Blues supremo insists he has financial backers supporting an offer that will be tabled soon. Knighton has described the Glazer family as inept owners of the Old Trafford club.

During the 1990s Knighton had control over MK Trafford Holdings and Stanley Cohen and Bob Thornton were important shareholders. He currently devotes the most of his time to becoming an artist poet and sculptor. He has long been a mysterious enigma to the art world at large He appears to have a pathological distrust of journalists.

By Miftaudeen Raji.

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