The Glazers aren't getting what they wanted with Manchester United takeover

The options on the table for the Glazer family right now probably aren't as attractive as they expected when they went public with their intention to consider selling Manchester United back in November.

They slapped a world-record £6bn asking price on the club, while also keeping open the possibility of opting for minority investment instead. Now, it looks increasingly likely they will have to either sell up for a lesser fee or take the investment, keep hold of the club and somehow deal with the fallout, which won't be pretty.

If Joel and Avram Glazer, the two siblings most wedded to the idea of staying in control, need any reminder of how they're viewed even when the success returns, they only had to watch the final few minutes of the Carabao Cup final. Avram was at Wembley to hear the closing stages of that game played out to the soundtrack of 'We Want Glazers Out'.

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A full sale is the only palatable option to supporters who have spent 17 years campaigning for the Glazers to go, but the size of the asking price and the scale of investment required at Old Trafford and Carrington has put off plenty of potential buyers. If the market around Chelsea was a shock due to the number of bidders, the attempts of US bank Raine to sell United has been a reminder that the football industry does still have limits.

Sources have said that Raine were confident in November that they would be able to do with United what they have done with Chelsea, but it hasn't been that easy. The Qatari bid of Sheikh Jassim and Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS group are the only realistic buyers for the club at the moment and neither seems to view it as a £6bn business.

That might force the