Since the Glazer family took control of Manchester United almost 25 years ago, they have had the world’s largest straw into the club’s coffers. – So far, they have raised a billion pounds! – In addition to that, they have sold 27.7% of the shares for about £1.3 billion.
Britain’s richest Sir Jim Ratcliffe must understand he has bought the cat in the bag. – Today, Manchester United had trouble finding a Europa League match against a team called Plezen.
The Glazers are even better than we thought! A chess move to bring in Sir Jim Ratcliffe in the heat of Manchester United.
Ratcliffe is a useful idiot for the Glazers
I don’t know why United fans thought that bringing in a guy who has become rich due to skirt regulations and basically asset-stripping would ever work in their favour.
His stats in football were already serious in France, with fans of his other teams regularly starting chants for him to leave.
Radcliffe is (yet another) excellent example of how many billionaires are not smart, they are just in the right place at the right time and have no idea how to run a business in a stable way. Did you honestly think that the guy who did his own scouting for his other team by attending African league matches was going to be a step up?
Now you’ve got rising ticket prices, kicks in a row, the assassination of the tea lady (probably, how else are we going to save money on wages?) and all because Radcliffe claims that the club is broke. At the same time, he publicly chased a director of football and paid to release him from his contract, while he also sacked a manager and paid out his contract and then paid to break the contract of another manager and his staff and then sacked the director of football that he paid to bring in.
Radcliffe is the idiotic shield that the Glazers want to hide behind. They are smarter than people give them credit for, they knew that this useful idiot would ruin everything and take the criticism away from them. – Ratcliffe is almost as stupid as Elon Musk.
Someone also mentioned that no one knows what a sports director does, I do. Their job is basically to oversee incoming and outgoing staff and players. They also create a long-term sporting strategy for the club. The loan manager deals with loan players and their progress. The Technical Director is responsible for the actual contracts offered and signed to retain, incoming and outgoing staff – so for the Liverpool fans who are annoyed that Hughes hasn’t sorted out contracts, but you’re blaming the wrong guy – our Technical Director is Julian Ward. That’s his job.
So now if you want to blame someone in the future and say they’re useless, at least you know how to measure it and who to blame.
