What some don’t appear to understand or appreciate, is that even the richest multi billionaires, like Jeff Bezos, don’t actually have vast amounts of money just lying in a bank account, or stashed under the bed.
Taking Bezos as an example. It’s estimated his net worth is somewhere around $195 billion to $200 billion, but most of that is the value of his ownership of Amazon and other assets and investments. He doesn’t have $200 billion in the bank or cash to spend.
According to sources like Forbes etc, the average multi-billionaire only has around 1% of their net value in liquidity, in other words, cash in hand.
In the example of Bezos, that might only be a couple of $ billion tops ( note that he only takes a salary of around $84k per year).
To spend £4 billion on a football club would either mean selling off shares or assets to raise the funds, or borrowing the money from the banks or other financial investors, all of who would expect a return on their own investment.
Daniel Ek will be looking to gather investors together, if he intends to buy the Arse.
He won’t be able to do it, by ferreting down the back of the sofa looking for some loose change.
At this sort of level ( £3 to £4 billion), nobody can afford a buyout of Utd purely as a benevolent, or non-profit act, except a state or state backed entity.