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Thomas Zilliacus has a new plan to approach potential investors in a bid to buy Manchester United . The Finnish entrepreneur put forward a proposal that could have earned the club $20billion in 2023.

Zilliacus rivalled the likes of Sheikh Jassim and Sir Jim Ratcliffe when the Glazer family put the club up for partial or full sale two years ago. Although his fan-led proposal fell short , he claims it could have been a lucrative one.

The former Nokia official stated that his team was drafting an app that would have given investing fans slight control of the club for a fee of $400. This "Swedish model" he claimed had been tested and if he could target just five per cent of his estimated one billion United fans around the globe, it could have generated up to $20b in

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