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The Pitch: €12bn man Jim Ratcliffe is no fool – so why does he appear so confused about United?

Jim Ratcliffe's interviews this week have provided more questions than answers. 
The Pitch: €12bn man Jim Ratcliffe is no fool – so why does he appear so confused about United?

CRACKS: Gary Neville's interview with Jim Ratcliffe may have exposed more fault lines in the Manchester United minority owner than was likely agreed beforehand. Pic: Lucy North/PA Wire.

In the most remarkable extract, from an astonishing interview - which left more questions than answers - Jim Ratcliffe revealed he did not know the fees Manchester United owed for current players.

“Pass. I don’t know the exact number,” the by-now fed-up minority shareholder of the so-called biggest football club in the world sighed.

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