Golf celebrity Rory McIlroy has expressed his hobby in buying a stake in Manchester United, once the chance comes his method. The 34-year-old lately invested in the Formula One group Alpine, however he’s having a look to stay increasing his portfolio.
“I would love to be able to own a tiny percentage of the club I grew up cheering on as a boy. I would have loved to have taken 0.00001 percent of Manchester United when Jim Ratcliffe took 25%,” he said in an interview with Sky Sports forward of the dash race at the USA Grand Prix on Saturday.
“And if another opportunity comes my way, I will look at it. But it is not something that has come across our table as of yet,” McIlroy mentioned
As a fan of the membership, he’s fascinated by Ratcliffe’s monitor report and appears ahead to seeing what he can do with complete carrying authority. McIlroy mentioned sports activities group possession used to most commonly occur for other folks with a lot of cash and was restricted to personal fairness, however now he sees athletes are studying easy methods to make investments their cash as smartly.
He admitted he already had a likelihood at making an investment in a other soccer membership, however mentioned his judgment of right and wrong would not permit him to take that exact alternative.
“There is Tom Brady at Birmingham and there are a few golfers — Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas — who invested with the 49ers Group, and they own a tiny slice of Leeds,” McIlroy mentioned.
“They asked me if I wanted to come on board, and I said as a Man United fan I cannot go anywhere near that,” McIlroy mentioned.