Manchester United co -owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe provided a surprisingly passionate defense of the Glazer family, club hatred of majority shareholders, while the death of the historic giants were charged with Ed Woodward and Richard Arnold.
Ratcliffe invested more than £ 1.2 billion last season to buy 28.94% United and guarantee control of sports decisions. Glazers, who had a control stake in the Red Devils since the late Malcolm Glazer completed the redemption of influences in 2005, boasted 67.9% of shares.
The US family, faced by brothers Joel and Avram, despised United supporters. Recently last weekend, thousands of fans march the streets in protest. Banners demanded “We want our club to return” and “stolen £ 1 billion £”, reference to debt made on Club of disgusting owners.
As Ratcliffe stated in his interview TimesThey were called to refrain from the positive attitude on the glazers. “People who advise me say that fans don’t want to hear him. So, I have to be careful,” he warned. But the British billionaire could not be helped.
“I get a lot of criticism if I support glazers, but the fact is that they are really decent people. They are the eastern coast, you know – that old America on the eastern coast, are very decent, very civilized, they are the most beautiful people on the planet. I mean, there is no bad bone in the body of Joel Glazer.
United continued to pile up domestic and continental silver dishes in the years after The Glazer family took control Before that, the torrent of success immediately dried up after the retirement of the legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and – which is crucial – director David Gill 2013. Ed Woodward replaced the latter, taking control of the recruitment as the club’s executive.
Woodward was a former JP Morgan investment banker, without a background in football and overseen some unhappy and expensive portable flopes. Richard Arnold took the reins in February 2022, but also fought to oversee any lasting success.
“I mean, I wouldn’t tolerate Ed Woodward, or Richard Arnold,” he saw Ratcliffe. “Richard was a rugby man, he didn’t even understand football.
Ratcliffe continued his defense against glazer, emphasizing how control they like Woodward and Arnold at the club. “Management Manchester United They got a huge amount of rope. The owners just managed the club and left the football side and made a lot of very bad decisions over 12 years, nonsense.
“They made a complete stream, shocking. They couldn’t see where they were heading. The first management group, they thought they understood and wanted to get involved in buying football players, but had no knowledge for knowledge buy Footballers, you know, so they went to the market, sprayed money and that was just by accident, wasn’t it? “
United had a completely new look hierarchy at Ratcliffe’s lesson. The process was not without its hiccups – manager Erik Ten Hag was wrongly given The new contract four months before it was released, while Dan Ashworth’s sports director lasted only five months. However, Ratcliffe is convinced that a delayed group of directors can oversee United’s first sustainable challenge from the title from Ferguson’s pension.
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