Gary Neville highlights issues with Manchester United bids from Sheikh Jassim and Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Gary Neville has warned that there is “no perfect answer” regarding which Manchester United bidder is the best for the club and insists it “wouldn’t bother” him if either Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani or Sir Jim Ratcliffe won the takeover race.

Both parties submitted second buy bids for United last month with Sheikh Al-Thani wishing to take over the whole club while Ratcliffe is vying for the Glazers’ 69 per cent majority share.

Neville said both bidders have shortfalls but also outlined what both would bring to United if successful in their respective offers. Speaking on The Overlap, the ex-United defender said: “Between the two bidders, if either of them won, it wouldn’t bother me. We can’t control it, it wouldn’t bother me.

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“I don’t want the American money at all. Jim is only buying 69 per cent of the club so he’s still going to have the debt in the club of £500m and he’s still going to have the New York Stock Exchange of 31 per cent.

“That’s my concern with that one, that we’ve got a stock exchange in America, so that is a negative. However, Jim’s a local guy, been a United fan and to be fair would do a really good job for the club.”

Regarding Sheikh Jassim's bid, Neville added: “The Qataris would come in and build a new stadium straight away, they’ll wipe out all the shareholders, they will never take dividends or debt but obviously people have to live with the fact that they might be a state-owned connection, which people don’t like as well. So there’s no perfect answer here.”

He went on to underline: “I would like either of them to buy the club away from the Glazer family. If Jim comes in, I want him to straight