{"id":38940,"date":"2023-07-09T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38940"},"modified":"2023-07-09T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T17:18:30","slug":"excuse-me-while-i-boggle-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/09\/excuse-me-while-i-boggle-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Excuse Me While I Boggle, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/05\/07\/excuse-me-while-i-boggle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Remember the bidding war for English football club <strong><em>Manchester United<\/em><\/strong><\/a>? It&#8217;s nearing its end &#8211; and it appears the English might be sniggering up their sleeves a little bit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Qatar\u2019s Sheikh\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2023\/06\/qatari-royals-manchester-united-takeover-be-announced-soon-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani<\/a>\u00a0could be overpaying for Manchester United by up to 2.5 billion pounds ($3.16 billion) if his proposed takeover of the British soccer club is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Jassim, a Qatari banker and son of a former Qatari prime minister, is favorite to acquire the Red Devils, after reports emerged Thursday that the offer by the main rival bidder \u2014 British billionaire and CEO of chemicals company INEOS Jim Ratcliffe \u2014 was \u201cdead in the water.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2023\/06\/qatari-royal-could-be-overpaying-316-billion-manchester-united?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=business%20newsletter%207523%20July%205%202023%20330&amp;utm_content=business%20newsletter%207523%20July%205%202023%20330+CID_b827a801751402394ee091c307e03a59&amp;utm_source=campmgr&amp;utm_term=Qatari%20royal%20could%20be%20overpaying%20by%20316%20billion%20for%20Manchester%20United\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AL-Monitor<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sure, the current owners are American, but that shouldn&#8217;t stop at least some sniggering. It&#8217;s a helluva ripoff of the sheikh. But maybe the sheikh is so bloody rich that he doesn&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the bidding war for English football club Manchester United? It&#8217;s nearing its end &#8211; and it appears the English might be sniggering up their sleeves a little bit: Qatar\u2019s Sheikh\u00a0Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani\u00a0could be overpaying for Manchester United by up to 2.5 billion pounds ($3.16 billion) if his \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/09\/excuse-me-while-i-boggle-ctd\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38941,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38940\/revisions\/38941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}