Manchester United: Sir Jim Ratcliffe raises a lid to abuse of fans, Ed Woodward and his relationship with the Glazer family | Football news
Manchester United co -owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe raised the lid to what was just over a year of turbulence, and Ineos in charge of Old Trafford.
In a revealing interview with Times Columnist Martin Samuel, United co -owner of Ratcliffe talked about working with abuse, his relationships with the Glazer family and the mistakes of former executive director Ed Woodward.
“If the abuse had reached the glazer level, I would have stepped down”
Ratcliffe said, “That [the abuse] can be embarrassed. And I probably failed at the entertainment front. I mean, I can handle it for a while. I don’t mind being unpopular because I realize that no one likes to see Manchester United where they are, and no one likes the decisions we have to make right now. If I draw some anger, I can handle it. But I do not differ from the average person. Not nice, especially for friends and family.
“So in the end, if it has reached the scope of The Glazer family They were abused, then I would have to say, look, enough enough, let others do it. I can’t really come to the game, glaze. Now they have retreated a little into the shadows, so I get all the bloody stick.
“We have bought them and since then I haven’t seen them. It’s: ‘Thank you, Jime, you do a really good job. “I have no security right now, I don’t have to walk like that, but that would beat the object, right?
“The first thing Sir Alex Ferguson He told me that the shirt could be too heavy, it refers to everything here, the coach, the players – the owner. Turns me into an old man. It is difficult to do interviews. On the camera for 40 minutes, one penis-up and you are legendary for it. “
‘I don’t know why we bought a man ud’
Asked why he decided to buy Man UTD, it was a question that was hard to answer.
He said, “I can’t honestly answer why we did it. It’s a pretty difficult question. With a beautiful, in the French league you can buy a club for £ 100m. It’s a much cheaper approach. But I don’t enjoy watching especially because there are some good players, but the level of football is not high enough to get excited.”
‘Glazers are passionate about man ud’
On glazers, Ratcliffe said, “To be fair to glazers, they are really good on the commercial side. People who advise me say that fans don’t want to hear him. So, I have to be careful. I get a lot of criticism if I support glazers, but the fact is that they are really decent people.
“They are the east coast, you know – that old America on the east coast, very decent, are very civilized, they are the most beautiful people on the planet. There is no bad bone in Joel GlazerBody. Part of the problem is that there is no bad bone in his body.
“We have a very professional partnership with the Glazer family. They are really honest and direct, not what you expect when you read about them in the press. And both are both of them [Avram and Joel – the most involved in the club] Passionate about Manchester United. I like them as people – to be honest, they could give us a bloody hard, wouldn’t you, after we were crashing Dan Ashworth and Erik Ten Hag?? He could, but he didn’t. “
‘Woodward had no credentials to run a man ud’
However, Ratcliffe was critical of the decisions previously made by the administration at Old Trafford.
“I would not tolerate myself Ed Woodward or Richard Arnold. Richard was a rugby man, he didn’t even understand football. ED had no credentials to manage the club. He was a shopping bank and an accountant. He was not the executive director.
“The way I look at this is that you had two manager teams in Manchester United for the last 12 years who have done a bad job because the owners were not, say, were not like, say, Steve Parish [Crystal Palace] and Daniel Levy [Tottenham Hotspur]They were not really in detail.
“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 going. The first group of managers thought they understood and wanted to get involved in buying football players, but they didn’t have the knowledge to buy football players, so they went to the market, spraying money and that was just by accident.”
Ratcliffe believes that the club is on the right track in Ineos’s direction, but he doesn’t think he’ll get there “without making more mistakes”, but he vowed to “deviate” if he failed, even though he claimed that “I don’t think I will succeed.”
Fernandes on Ratcliffe: It’s not nice to hear certain things
Before the interview in TimesRatcliffe suggested that some players were “overpaid” in a series of interviews during the week in which he offered strong opinions on the club, including the standard of the team.
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes confessed to “not nice to hear certain things” from Ratcliffe.
In a series of interviews this week, Ratcliffe offered strong opinions about the club, including the team standard.
“Some are not good enough and some are probably overpaid, but for us to form a determinant for which we are fully responsible and responsible will take time,” Ratcliffe said.
Asked about Ratcliffe’s comments he gave during the week, Fernandes said, “Obviously it is not nice to hear certain things.
“I don’t think any player likes to hear criticism or things that are said; you are not good enough or overpaying or anything else.
“Everyone has their own contract. The club agrees with the contracts at the time you come here, or at a time when you are doing a new contract, which is about proving that you can be important for the club.
“We can’t relax in this club. It’s a big standard, a lot of attention you get from the media. You have to understand that sometimes you need to put your focus on your game, trying to improve yourself.”
