Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is stepping up a 3.8 billion-pound ($4.9 billion) bid for Manchester United, seeking to tempt the Glazer family to cede control of the Premier League soccer team before next season, the Sun reported. Bin Salman first made a bid for the team in October, the Sun said, but the diplomatic row that followed the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul “put the skids” on the offer. United is controlled by the American Glazer family, owners of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They bought the U.K. soccer club in 2005 in an acquisition heavily financed ... (full story)