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Sam Wallace: Why Qatar and Sheikh Jassim have not abandoned hope of owning Manchester United

Manchester United owners Avram Glazer and Jim Ratcliffe with chief executive Omar Berrada (left) ahead of the Europa League final in Bilbao.

Manchester United owners Avram Glazer and Jim Ratcliffe with chief executive Omar Berrada (left) ahead of the Europa League final in Bilbao.

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The long journey of Paris St-Germain to the peak of European football has not always been a comfortable one for the state of Qatar, having acquired the club in 2011, although that does not seem to have diminished its appetite for the power conferred by football.

Invited to sit among the VIP seats at the Allianz Arena in Munich on Saturday night was Alex Ferguson, a guest of the PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.

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