Manchester United co -owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, handed over a surprisingly passionate defense of the GLAZER family, the club’s majority shareholders, as they blamed Ed Woodward and Richard Arnold for the disappearance of historical giants.
Ratcliffe invested more than 1.2 million pounds last season to buy 28.94% of the United States and warranty control of sports decisions. The Glazers, who have had a control participation in the Red Devils since the missing Glazer de Malcolm completed a panence in 2005, has 67.9% of the shares.
United States supporters are despised by the United States family, who has his brothers Joel and Avram. As recently last weekend, thousands of fans left the streets by protest. The banners demanded that “we want our club to return” and “£ 1 billion dollars”, a reference to the the debt loaded to The club of the unpleasant owners.
As Ratcliffe exhibited in his interview with The timesHe has urged him to refrain from taking a positive position on the ice. “The people who advise me say that fans do not want to hear it. So I have to be cautious,” he warned. But the British billionaire could not help.
“ I have a lot of criticism if I support the Glazers, but the fact is that they are really decent people.They are the east coast, you know, that the old east coast of America are very educated, they are very civilized, they are the most beautiful people on the planet. I mean there is no bad bone in the body of Joel Glazer. I mean that part of the problem is not a bad bone in his body. ”
United continued to pillage in the domestic and continental silver during the years following the The Glazer family took control Before this success torrent was quickly dried up after the retirement of the legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and, crucially, director David Gill in 2013. Ed Woodward replaced the latter, taking control of the hiring as the club’s executive vice president.
Woodward was a former JP Morgan investment banker without a background in football and oversaw some expensive and calamitic transfer flops. Richard Arnold took the reins in February 2022, but also struggled to monitor any sustained success.
“I mean, I would not have tolerated Ed Woodward or Richard Arnold,” Ratcliffe said. “Richard was a rugby man, he did not even understand football. Ed did not have his credentials to manage the club. He was a merchant banker, accountant. He was not the CEO.”
Ratcliffe continued his defense of the Glazers, highlighting Woodward and Arnold’s control at the club. “The management of Manchester United It has been given a large amount of rope. The owners have just managed the club and left football alone and made many very poor decisions over 12 years, stupid things.
“They did it a complete blow, really shocking. They couldn’t see where they were heading. The first management group thought they understood and wanted to get involved in the purchase of footballers, but they were not aware purchase The footballers, you know, so they went to the market, sprinkle money and it was random, right? “”
The United States has had a completely new hierarchy installed under the Ratcliffe clock. The process was not without its hiccups: Manager Erik Ten hag was Erroneously given A new contract four months before being sacked, while sports director Dan Ashworth lasted only five months. However, Ratcliffe is confident that the group of exaggerated settlers will be able to monitor the first challenge of the sustained title of United since Ferguson’s retirement.
