The Glazer ownership of Manchester United has been slammed for creating a low bar for potential investors.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe is set to spend £1.3 billion on a 25 per cent stake in the club, The Mail report. He is seeking control of football operations at the club, report BBC Sport.
Is he the best possible person to run the football side of the club? United fans can just cling onto hope at this point.
Given the Glazers‘ utterly woeful record, there is a feeling that surely anybody could do better.
Low bar set by the Glazers
The Glazers have overseen Manchester United’s painful decline in recent years. This has created a desperation among fans for someone new.
It was why so many United fans were so enraptured by the prospect of Qatari bidder Sheikh Jassim, a man whose pictures online could be counted on one hand.
Former Premier League midfielder Craig Burley told ESPN FC via YouTube: “A lot of United fans would take anybody with half a brain, and more interest and sporting knowledge, better at recruitment than the Glazers.
“I think if you are a Man United fan you want clarity that people are coming in are going to put money behind the club and know what they are doing.
“It has been crystal clear from renewing contracts, to giving out stupid wages, to overpaying for players, to sitting on their hands in transfer windows and losing out on players, it’s left them in the position they are in, particularly this season, scrambling around trying to get a result.”
Burley is right. The Glazers are guilty of all of the above, and United fans are absolutely desperate for change.
The jury is out on Ratcliffe
Manchester United fans, along with The Raine Group, had hoped for a much wider pool of bidders for the club.
The jury is out on Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Yes, fans would have settled for anybody with ‘half a brain’ ahead of the Glazers, but we aspire for far more than that.
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