{"id":942210,"date":"2026-05-06T19:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T19:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:48:29","slug":"man-utd-co-owner-sir-jim-ratcliffe-fires-warning-after-ineos-deal-football-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/942210\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe fires warning after INEOS deal | Football | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United co-owner <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"Sir Jim Ratcliffe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/sir-jim-ratcliffe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sir Jim Ratcliffe<\/a> has issued a stark warning to the UK and Europe about their energy policies. The businessman made the remarks while announcing significant fresh investment in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe&#8217;s company INEOS confirmed on Tuesday that it had finalised a deal for a 21% stake in three oil and gas sites located off America&#8217;s east coast. The investment builds upon the more than \u20ac3billion (\u00a32.6bn) already ploughed into US operations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t get energy, then you can&#8217;t run your hospitals, run industry or heat your houses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;Europe is all over the place. From an investment point of view, you always go to the stable rather than the unstable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would have a lot more confidence in investments in America in the energy sector than I would in Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That accomplishment has made Carrick the overwhelming favourite to be confirmed as permanent manager when the season draws to a close. The club are also expected to be busy in the transfer market, with strengthening the midfield identified as a key priority.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, Ratcliffe is working to bring down INEOS&#8217;s debt, which stood at $18bn (\u00a313.2bn) at the close of last year. The United owner is reportedly edging closer to offloading Ligue 1 outfit Nice.<\/p>\n<p>He acquired the French club in August 2019 through INEOS, initially valuing the side at \u00a3200m, though he is said to have significantly reduced his asking price in a bid to push through a sale.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/football\/article\/jim-ratcliffe-interview-manchester-united-martin-samuel-vfvljvb9w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Times<\/a> last year, Ratcliffe admitted: &#8220;I don&#8217;t particularly enjoy going to watch Nice because there are some good players, but the level of football is not high enough for me to get excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has issued a stark warning to the UK and Europe about their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":942211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[51,263165,5467,263164,98,423,28279,16,15],"class_list":["post-942210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-energy-policies","tag-ineos","tag-ineos-investment","tag-manchester-united","tag-manchester-united-fc","tag-sir-jim-ratcliffe","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116529365608254613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}