Speaking on the show\u00a0Gym Tonic,\u00a0OGC Nice president Jean-Pierre Riv\u00e8re revealed that he has “no problem”\u00a0with the club’s owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, purchasing Manchester United.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ratcliffe also bid to buy Chelsea last season, but Riv\u00e8re has said that he is ambivalent to rumours linking the INEOS and Nice owner to the purchase of Manchester United.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the interview, transcribed by\u00a0Foot Mercato,\u00a0he said, “Jim has the means to buy Manchester United, who is the club of his heart, but Jim, who lives on the C\u00f4te d’Azur, loves OGC Nice. He wants to grow this club to which he is attached. The big difference with other sports is financial fair play. At Nice, we have very few receipts, we aren’t Marseille or Lyon or Paris. We have to make the club grow.”<\/p>\n
He continued, “We can’t invest all the money that we would wish. I don’t know if Jim will buy Manchester United, but if Nice is the second club after Manchester United, I don’t have any problem with that.”<\/p>\n