From Reuters news agency:
U.S. billionaire Philip Anschutz has identified British football club Manchester United Plc
MNU.L> as a potential takeover target, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.
But the paper said Anschutz, unknown in Britain despite being the owner of the Millennium Dome in London, was unlikely to launch a bid for English football's champion team in the near term given his U.S. business interests and his work on relaunching the ill-fated Dome.
Anschutz made his fortune from U.S. local telephone company Qwest Communications International Inc
Q.N>, which he founded.
Manchester United is regularly the subject of bid speculation and talk flared up again earlier this month, helping the company's shares hit a two-year high last week.