The Controversial Past of Manchester United's New Owner
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- Jim Ratcliffe has a difficult past when it comes to owning clubs, full of mistakes of his own admission. He has the resources and the ambition to help bring Manchester United back to its full glory, but what mistakes has he made in the past, and has he learned from them?
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Zealand looks fly with a fresh cut
His company Ineos is actually the company that is responsible for a leak around Sarnia Ontario that is having a huge effect on the native population there 🤷♀️
So? What's that got to do with football?
@@shuraamano it speaks to his character, much the same as the glazers are rich but have shit character and morals, so does he
@@austinwalker1050 as if he personally has anything to do with the day to day running of a factory up in Sarnia
@@jameslindsay3744 I suppose you can take whatever approach you'd like to it, I would like to think if I was a billionaire and actively contributing to killing people I might care a little bit, but eh if you want to defend a rich white guy who doesn't even know you exist be my guest
@@shuraamanowtf you mean what it got to do with football???? If ppl like that + oil states keep buying and getting into football for image washing the sport that is literally working class origin is gonna die. Anyone with common sense knows that
Fairly certain Sir Dave Brailsford didn’t run the 1500 meters at the olympics 😂 he was the head of British Cycling instead
I think he was referring to someone else? If not it's pretty bad research
@@kieronparr3403 he both described and shown Dave Brailsford. I assume he was looking into Seb Coe at the time and got him mixed up as he actually ran in the olympics. He however isn’t associated with Ineos but is on the stadium taskforce
Yea Brailsford did not run the 1500 meters, I get into who he is and his importance later in the video, we popped the wrong article title in front of that line of the script
@@ZealandonYT no problem, still enjoying the content either way so keep up the good work 👍
@@gregjohnson8897 yeah I wondered how seb coe didn't come up RE old Trafford. I must have been looking away at that point
for anyone wondering, Zealand is wearing a Geylang International FC jersey in this video.
Absolutely outstanding eye
And THAT is the most attention a club from the Singapore Premier League will ever get this year
@@guguy00i legitimately managed them this year during my journey man save 😅
Can't be worse than the glazers
unless...
We get more Americans in charge
@@mandyretter8964 Jim is from failsworth
Jim Radcliffe: watch this
It can certainly be the same. One of my fears about them is that they are another corporate good ole boy outfit. Oh, Jim isn't an American and is a fan... Big deal. Doesn't mean he's competent
nice trim zealand, now you can be extra dynamic for your running
He placed the right people in jobs that were given to people with absolutely no experience. The club seems to progress in a few months, whilst under the glazers it was stagnating.
He's off to a good start for sure, the directors he's getting are top notch, just needs to keep at it to avoid a Nice situation
Berrada was not a CEO and has no experience being one. Wilcox was not a technical director and has no experience being one. The media might be telling you that these guys are best in class but they aren't. They were both several rungs below the positions they have taken at United.
@@thebiglebrowski3695 those we are appointing have been best in their roles and field but ok big you know more
@@squidly1369 They might have been but that doesn't mean they are the best in the roles we have given them. A CFO is not a CEO. A director of football is not a technical director.
We simply don't know whether they are capable of their heightened responsibilities or not. Hopefully they are but they are nowhere near a sure thing.
It is pretty much the same as expecting a great coach to be a great manager. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they aren't. There is pretty much no correlation, though.
Could you make a video about Pinto da Costa? He was FC Porto's president for 42 years, the president with most titles in history of football. He lost the elections last week. I think the majority of people don't even know who he is and how important he was for his club
Day 1 of asking Zealand to make a video on the development of USL
A video pointing out that Lausanne-Sport are crap? As a Servette fan, this is beautiful
Really insightful video covered more then most United channels
The dude from Zealandism would make this funnier ... Im just saying 🤔
Agreed
I will say as a Utd fan that I'm encouraged that we're seeing the likes of Berrada, Wilcox and Ashworth coming into the club in those top positions. Effectively INEOS are bringing in best-in-class, Man City pedigree for both Berrada and Wilcox and Ashworth's involvement in the England DNA project that we, that is England as a international football nation, have reaped huge benefits from. If Ratcliffe was appointing his mates or family into the top jobs, then we would be looking at repeating the same mistakes.
You still haven't paid for Ashworth and the utter disrespect he has shown to our owners and club with his remarks is disgraceful. The Saudi's aren't bothered about a measly 20mil, it's the principle.
Jason Wilcox is "best-in-class" ... 🤣
They aren't, though. Two of three have been brought in to a position significantly higher up in the pecking order than they were doing at their previous club. Berrada wasn't running City, he was several levels below that. Wilcox was a director of football, he is a technical director at United. Only Ashworth is doing the same role and by all accounts he wasn't actually responsible for any of Newcastle's good signings.
They aren't actually best in class, they are just being dressed up as if they are.
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More important than ratcliffe is brailsford. That guy changed cycling forever and maybe he could do some magic in football
I've been watching your videos fahm and am from Nairobi Kenya but I have never seen you do a video of the Kenyan League and its teams. How about this,take Gor Mahia a Kenyan Team to win the CAF Champions League. We Kenyans would be happy. Thank You!
I just assume that if you have enough money to buy a Premier League club, you probably have some controversy in your past/present.
Looking clean zeel
He’s learnt from these failures, United have assigned job to beat in class
Wrong channel Zealand
He is not talking bout FM here, God damn Zealand.
Reminds me of the founder of SAP. He bought out his local Youth club Hoffenheim and brought it from the 9th division to the champions league.
It's all about Glazer's.
It can't be worse)
Nice pronunciation of Rolle and Lausanne, although I would argue that Rolle is a village. A small town maybe
Man U already has the prestige, it’s like in FM you start as Man U or other top teams and you can sign almost anyone and bring in whoever.
Start as a team in the Swiss league and you are scouting far and wide and it’s a lot of work to find good players that want to play for your team. He’s just throwing money around on easy mode now where as before he was trying to topple giants like PSG with no experience. Hopefully this time it works out and it helps the other two teams as well
They definitely fucked up till last season. This season at Nice with the hiring of Ghisolfi as DOF & Fabrice Bocquet as CEO, their process has been much better even though their league position doesn't tell the complete picture
Class video zea
Aaron Ramsey also played for Nice.
So, his net worth is 15-30 billion, yet he moved his company to switzerland to save 100 million. Please tell me again how billionaires aren't greedy
What
@@somebritishidiot636 the ultra rich are greedy af
In fairness, it was 100 million per year, but that's still 150 years of taxes to sap his net worth with literally no income if my math is right
It's crazy how much 1 billion is
@@ZealandonYT *at least* 150 years, on the low end
so? why doesnt how much he has hav to do with not wanting to waste money..
Regarding the engineering puns, mechanical Vs. Electrical is usually where the fire is at XD
Fresh cut?
As a Newcastle fan Ratcliffe gives me serious Mike Ashley vibes.
Who that ? And is having this vibe good for us (Manchester United I mean)
How did you grow your beard that fast??
4:57 I do enjoy how they're holding the shirts in the wrong order.
Great Video Brother keep it up 🫡
I'm surprised Brailsford would do something so stupid at Nice as delaying the transfer work He may be from a different sport, but knowing how his team has conducted itself during transfer seasons in cycling, surely he'd be aware of how important it is to be ahead of things.
For some context on the cycling team: I believe Ratcliffe has taken a hands-off approach, and letting Brailsford take care of things, which he had done brilliantly before Ineos took over. Ineos as a team has been marred by bad luck, with Froome's crash in 2019, Bernal's injury in 2020 and Bernal's 2022 training crash which nearly earned him a Darwin Award (he's thankfully alive and back to racing). They've also had to deal with being financially outmuscled by UAE Team Emirates, while Visma-Lease a Bike (previously Jumbo-Visma) got ahead of the Ineos team on sports science and scouting. Brailsford became director of sports for the Ineos organization in December 2021, after the transfer window for the 2022 cycling season was settled. After that, the team has gone into the transitional period, and been banking heavily on youth, signing two U19's into the WT squad going into both the 2023 and 2024 season.
yeah ineos has still been class in cycling and just becuase they dont have the freak of nature tadej pogacar they have not kept there same results, but if they can bring that same marginal gains approach to utd they can be a great team
The Ineos Grenadiers transfer policy has been a disaster in the past couple of years, especially after Brailsford gave the rains to Ellingworth (who has now been sacked).
Some examples are:
Failing to agree a deal with Rodriguez then having to pay Movistar compensation when Brailsford or Ellingworth (or both) realized their mistake.
Agreeing to sign Foss on a million per year contract (a massive deal compared to his quality) then doing a 180 and eventually resolving everything behind closed doors.
Signing Porte after his podium at the tour, probably on a huge deal, only for him to retire not having achieved anything during his contract.
Not resigning A. Yates at the end of the 2022 season. Yates had a career year and podiumed the tour in 2023.
Also many of their young signings are stagnating or even regressing.
Brailsford's idea behind everything is throw money at the problem in a controlled way and be strict to the point of bullying with the competitors. Britain's track cyclists were essentially pros when others were semi-pros due to Olympic funding. Other teams were getting performance clothing and bikes the week of the competition, whilst GB were getting everything weeks in advance to get ready for competitions.
He took that model to team road cycling and did well in the Grand Tours but has never been able to crack the classics. Now other teams have caught up and are doing the Brailsford model better than he has. Also, his reputation has to be sullied by all the issues over TUEs, jiffy bags and whether he was doping his riders.
IMO, he has no actual knowledge or flair, it's just plug and play the "British Cycling model", which only worked in track cycling because the other teams don't have the money. How is that going to work in football?
The glazers still own a majority of the club
new zealand video? i click
FULL SALE MEANS FULL SALE, WE WANT THE GLAZERS OUT
Fantastic video Z well done
To be fair, everything he (and INEOS) have done in United have been steps in the right direction
You grew that beard back fast.
Hey zealand a big eafc youtuber wanaa change to fm thought you could give a hand
10:23 worth at least 15 billion, btw
As a Utd fan myself, I've long lost any hope for my club, n I'm slowly losing love for watching the game. There is no vision, we sign 50 promising players n when its time for them to leave either the club puts them on a pedestal n makes them undroppable or the manager is a absolute id!ot. Rangnick was completely right, this club needs open heart surgery, a clean slate. Only 4 players i would realsitcally keep n looking how this season is goin one of them looks past it atp. Ronaldo was right bout: the players, ownership & manager. INEOS has somehow already won over the fans wit 0 signings made, dnt care wat fancy name they bring at upper level, the track record is disastrous. Also i cant stand the fanbase, as much as he didnt work out Pogba was completely right bout the fanbase, absolutely clueless
Rumor said that he may sack Ten Hag at the end of the season so he can recruit Southgate if his contract with England expires. If this happens, it may be like a cycle before Ratcliffe buys the team. 😂😂😂
It won't matter if he fails at Utd and drags them down further. Their fans will still just blame the Glazers and show their discontent by buying new shirts and watching them play on Sky whilst sat on the sofa of their London flats.
tbf from the start of this video he doesnt seem like a bad ceo (as ceos of major multi billion dollar companies go) seems to actually give a fuck about his employees. at least the bare minimum.
Really good vid Zealand and team. While as a United fan I have some concerns around him, the infrastructure being put in place, of actual football people, where previously there just was a mix of Glazer pals and clueless money handlers, I think there is some optimism around this. Certainly more than the ever increasing death spiral under the Glazers! As for the claims of an anti United bias, I just dont see it really....this was relatively evenly presented, there are risks, simple as that. However as the alternative is far far worse, in Jim we (have) to trust
Well, he learnt from experiences he gained by being owner several times. I don't think he will fail at Man Utd.
As a Man Utd fan, who really invested time thinking and looking for informations about failure of executive department in Man Utd since Jose Mourinho's time at United. I dare to say that Glazer IS the WORST ever.
The move to get Omar Berrada , who supposed to be a successor of Txiki Begiristain at Man City, and to capture both Dan Ashworth as a DoF and Jason Wilcox as a Technical Director, those are the prove that the first step that SJR and INEOS took was in a great direction for the first time in about almost 20 years since Glazer's arrival.
So basically they are copying manchester city again like they do with transfer targets
His national stadium in the north where man united play is stupid. Why should non football fans and non man united fans should give their money so man united can have a new stadium.
My problem is with the Premier League, they could have stopped the part take over but they didn't. Why? Because its not good business and it doesnt give them TV revenue. And at this point.... i dont care. Like Arsenal fans, i had to suffer my team go from the best team in england to the second best team in manchester behind Man sheikh-y. Ive supported united since 89 when they were nothing more than a cup team fighting to stay mid table. It could be worse.... we could be owned by Disney 😂😂😂😂
Crazy to see how United is exchanging an idiot for another.
Everyone knows chemical engineers true rivalry is with civil engineers
United have had the single worst owners in football for the past 20 years whilst still keeping us somewhat competitive. Ratcliffe in a few months has already done more for the club than the glazers have since they stole the club. There are many issues for Ineos to sort out, but i'm far more optimistic now than I would have been under the glazers or jassim
objectively wrong. bury, bolton.
@@dantespina7398 yh remember when bury and Bolton had over 1.5bn stripped away from the club...
@@ajprop99 remember when bolton and bury had a billion dollars to lose and still make european football every season. remember united points deductions. remember united having to start from the 9th season. no top 6 team should be complaining nor should any premier league club. it is beyond pathetic and entitled
Wow, Zealand talking about Lausanne, my city (albeit not in the most positive light ahah)! As a Liverpool fan, I can only be happy about inviting Manchester United in the Ineos family!
I grew up just outside of Nyon!!
@@ronnieplonk The only reason I know of Nyon is that the town's football stadium has hosted all but one of the UEFA Youth League finals
"Dude moves company overseas to avoid paying uk taxes, buys into uk club and wanted tax payers to pay for its new stadium"
The taxpayer money would go into the rejuvination of the area as a whole, Andy Burnham the Mayor of Manchester has already confirmed that the stadium itself would have to be 100% paid for by Manchester United, it's just there's issues with the surrounding areas infastructure in terms of public transport, that need improving and that is the responsibility of the goverment.
Oh you can't say that, it doesn't fit the agenda against the man.
They claim they did research but only thing he constantly tried to do is to badmouth the man like no one ever made a bad decision and when you run a multibilion dollar empire, do you really have time to have hands on approach with some small village in Switzerland?
Nah, is it fuck. You can't dodge taxes for decades and then expect the taxpayer to foot the bill for your new complex.
Manchester City didn't stick the bill on the taxpayer, stop making excuses.
My only fear is that Sir Jim Ratcliffe don't turn to be another Glazer who only cares for monetary gain rather than the success of the club.
He promised to.challenge PSG 😂😂😂 bold statement sir
LUUUUUUUU-SANNE
"You don't have to put on the red light"?
Why are you talking about him 😂
Zealand is becoming the Jon Oliver of football
Awwe, don't do Z like that 😂
just what i wanted to hear😂now i want to hear oil shit disappearing
The only difference between him and the Glazers is that he's British. I can't wait until he hires Southgate 😂😂😂
Wrong channel
Glazer Jimmy 😂😂😂
I see a haircut
He’s an interesting guy, but he brings change and change is what Man United desperately need right now.
get that hair cut son
Yeah we dont like him too, but hes better than the Glazers. The glazers bought us with loans and then put the debt unto us totalling almost a billion, sure they spent, but trusted a commercial man in Ed Woodward to head footballing operations and transfers, leading us to where we are today, unsellable players on high wages.
Us fans had no winning option. Either Ratcliffe and his egregious environmental damages and human rights abuse in impoverished countries. Or some random Shiekh which nobody knows if they are even real or not who also has a rich history of humans right abuse. Literally, it's like picking who is the worst dictator from WW2. Yeah you can argue for one or another, but ultimately they all suck and no option is good. I was doing my research during the club sale and RATcliffe is the sort of dude I absolutely despise. Buys up clubs (not just football), turns them to shit, then buys the next shiny toy when it gets a bit tough, thus neglecting the previous pet project and moving onto the next. This is all funded off the back of exceptionally damaging practices to the environment and making people stuck in a poverty cycle have to endure even worse conditions just so he can line his pockets. The only thing he can do for my club which will make me say "ok, fair enough" is if he brings in Toto Wolff from the Mercedes F1 team. Toto is an absolute genius when it comes to building a team. He himself isnt particularly special, but he has a god-like ability to get all the right sort of people in specific places and gives them the freedom to operate as they see fit, which all combines into a really great team. Mercedes are suffering a bit lately, but you can see how having some of those people Toto, Lauda and Brawn put in place leaving has impacted them.
Long comment to basically say RATcliffe sucks. Cant believe my options as a fan are; Glazers, Random Sheikh, or RATcliffe. May as well as me if I want to be stabbed, shot or run over by a car.
Everything thing Sir Jim touched turned to rubbish as Mercedes aand Team Sky can tell you.
As a Newcastle fan still bitter about the poaching of Dan Cashworth, this made my day. Thanks, Zealand.
He’s been Cashworth for a while, remember you lot poached him from Brighton
Bit hypocritical
Was Ashworth responsible for Tonali? If so that just adds to the argument that his ability to find diamonds is severely overrated so I wouldn't sweat him leaving too much.
@@Icarus07c He was highly involved in the signing of Tonali yes, whereas the likes of Bruno G and Trippier arrived before Ashworth did (even if Sky seems to believe otherwise). But the main issue from Newcastle’s side isn’t necessarily who he’s been involved in signing. The recruitment team at Newcastle (and Brighton for that matter) consists of more than one person, so it’s not the case that every player signed while Ashworth was at said club, where his discoveries. And each club will survive without him.
The main issue for Newcastle’s sake now though, is that he has knowledge on a lot of sensitive information about the club’s recruitment strategies, contract information on key assets, players to be scouted etc - at the same time that Man Utd is a direct rival in the league. I am not saying that he would disclose such information, but the hypothetical possibility that it could happen, would still put Newcastle in a vulnerable position. That is why Newcastle are demanding such a high sum for him to be released from his gardening leave - and why it makes sense for Newcastle to pay his wages until then, so that he can’t work for Man Utd.
As for the time when he left Brighton, the case was different: 1), They’re not direct rivals, and 2) Newcastke was able to agree a compensation with the south coast club so that his gardening leave would end.
@@SandyRyeng yeah that's what I figured, idk I'm sure Tonali will be a great signing when he finally plays but that's the sort of thing I'd expect a "world class" DoF to know... Doesn't seem so bad of a loss after that.
Feel like the Dan Ashworth situation has showed arrogance and bad planning from the early days of United control
Its not just the saudis that use sportswashing to help their image 😅
united fans: ratcliffe will mean that the shit show that is the club run by the glazers will be over.......................................... This is going to end well.
🤣
First
We call him offshore Jim here in England
Billionaire is sketchy isn’t really a surprise … name me a billionaire that isn’t sketchy and I’d be more surprised. (Other than women who were billionaires after divorcing billionaire husbands)
Seems a one sided argument here, hes employed the top people from the top clubs which united havent had previously, braislford is one of the leaders in british sport science and a trail blazer, the argument over leverging the stadium with tax payers moneh is a very american centric view with the need for leveling up the north being paramount for manchester and wider regions, something lauded by people on city for doing, the arguments here were very one sided and tracked once more another media personality trying to focus irrelevant and baseless arguments and stories over Manchester united
Yea thats cope. He clearly stated the hiring of staff point and just cause you disagree about the stadium doesn’t mean it is one sided. He is pretty fair and not malicious.
He is a sportswasher.
Aren't they all, the Prem is a Luandry hual now
So Glazers are out but a worse owner is in. Man Utd is destined to suffer, damn.
mandatory in-office policy + removing a number of staff benefits already... that tells me all I need to know about him.
VVanker in my book
Why does Jim Ratcliffe always look like a homeless man that's won a stadium tour at Old Trafford?
Sir Jim OUT
Something is off only between Zealand and Manchester United particulary, the talk about Coventry's offside for example he made a full video about it like VAR didn't mess up a milion times already with a catching name "ThE gAmE iS rUiNeD", I don't think it's much about Coventry's Cinderella-dream-run, I think he just doesn't like Manchester United that much to put it mildly, therefore he doesn't like the new owner. Jim Ratcliffe is doing a good job for now, putting right people in right places and trying to rebuild a crumbling Old Trafford, which is enough for me.
But this personal animosity is not doing him any good, videos like this really give him a big minus in my book.
For example, Laussane being a feeder club to Nice, I didn't hear him talk about Troyes in France or Girona in Spain being feeder clubs to Manchester City, and numerous other things that are in form of "maybe", "could be", "we have to see" and all other bullshit that a 5 year old can say and predict.
He did a video on Girona and it being part of the City group, if I remember correctly.
United did a lot to receive justified criticism.
And the Coventry video was clearly about VAR and not MU at all.
Also, this video is about the Ratcliffe's life before MU to give some insight into that, no MU criticism.
It is also much too early to judge Ineos involvement (in either direction). And Ineos is also not an innocent company, to say the least.
It is your own bias.
@@thargoff Read again what I wrote, he could've called Laussane and Nice part of INEOS group, not a feeder club.
United is the club that has been wronged the most out of all clubs in PL this season, from the moment that Kloppy boi started crying that all decisions went United's way from then on referee's and VAR are just destroying United back and forth, so justified criticism ? I wouldn't say so.
VAR has been around for quite some time and has been making terrible mistakes ever since but he chose to do it right after one important decision against Cinderella underdog club went United's way? Why did he wait to make the video?
As I said, Ratcliff is putting right people in right places and does his work on rebuilding a crumbling Old Trafford, you talk about his past in football, you are head of a multi billion dollar company, would you give all that up to go manage a small team in Switzerland hands on when you have much more important things to do? I wouldn't say so.
Point is, that you missed the point of the comment, where is his video about mistakes in Nice and Laussane without Manchester United? He doesn't care, and damn right he shouldn't, he has better things to do, but when certain things reach United he becomes interested and searches for flaws and mistakes, ignoring good things. Guy obviously has a bias against United, same as you probably a scouser or Arsenal fan.
😂😂😂 victim mentality
Weak
@@ahmedhamzic9065 Your argument dies at the moment with the feeder clubs. Zealand didn't call them feeder clubs he said the fans of these clubs fear to become feeder clubs. The rest is just crying by you.
There is no bias. You are biased.
@@ahmedhamzic9065waaaaahhhh
Utd just jumped from the boiling pot to the fire. Radcliffe might be a good Company CEO, but he's a bad Sports Team Owner.
Not really. He’s already brought in multiple guys who are best in their position into our hierarchy. Ashworth, Berrada, Wilcox, etc. before that we simply did not have these positions. No director of football, no true technical director, no true CEO. Under the glazers we did not have a proper structure, something teams in league two can expect. So I’m going to have to disagree with you. He’s already doing a better job than the glazers
@@wareaglewellyBerrada who is arguably the prime suspect in our 115 charges, jason wilcox who essentially got southampton relegated and ashworth who is a mercenary. Great football structure😂
Nope, Berrada had nothing to do with the faulty finances of the club or the 115 charges against it. He oversaw talent management and performance, before that he secured commercial deals for City but he wasn't on the back end, falsifying the books. Wilcox joined Southampton in 2023, hardly enough time to make decisions damaging enough to get them relegated. Their relegation is on the owners. And Ashworth saw an opportunity to join the biggest club in England and bring it back to where it belongs, wouldn't call that being a mercenary. He has upgraded from every club he has left.
@@wareaglewelly I'm glad you a commenter who actually does research
Ah Zealand man, I love your content but this constant use of your channel to just bash United either A) for engagement / views or B) some weird hatred of the club is so poor. You’re better than this.
Where is MU bashed here? It is about the life of the new part-owner before MU.
@@thargoff except Man United is in the title, it mentions ownership of United at the start and the video would 100% never have been made unless he bought United?
@@HalftimeOranges328 But where is MU bashed? It is all facts and backgrounds. Don't see and hear any bashing. And if you can't take facts and infos then you might need to stay with Goldbridge & Co in the MU bubble.
Excatly, it's just too obvious..
I'm also a United fan and I'm thankful for a brief history about Ratcliffe's history owning football clubs as I didn't know much about it. Not everything is an attack against the things you like. Sometimes things just are.
I expect a deep dive into other club's owners and their controversial past now.
You can't suddenly have a problem with united's new owners just because you hate them because they ruined your childhood. Otherwise this video is nothing but sour grapes.
You could say worse aviut city's owners but no it's united...joke
I made a Boehly video a few months ago and this video is about the previous clubs he's owned, but more importantly the Boston Bruins and the Chicago Blackhawks ruined my childhood
@@ZealandonYTfair enough and I appreciate the response
On a personal level I find Jim Ratcliffe a vile person. For him to dodge taxes in England just to try to use tax money to his benefit later on, and his treatment of Nice and LS fans is disgusting to me. The elephant in the room is also that we(United fans) all vastly preferred the Sheiks bid, because they promised to heavily invest in the structure, make the club debt free again and to completely take the Glazers out of the picture.
You don't speak for me
Lmao a few idiots online does not represent the vast majority of united fans. "The Sheik" would have been the end of united
Radcliffe looks like the aged version of Z
Hey zealand a big eafc youtuber wanaa change to fm thought you could give a hand