Chris Winterburn

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A source with a social connection to the Glazers family on #mufc: "It’s a travesty and not what they expected or were promised. They have never run the club this way." [@ianherbs]

🚨🗣️ - Kaveh Solhekol goes COMPLETELY IN on Sir Jim Ratcliffe live on air: “I'm going to tell you who's to blame for this situation at the moment. The person to blame is Jim Ratcliffe. “He bought the club almost three years ago. He bought 29% of it, when the Glazer family put the club up for sale. He didn't buy the whole club, he only bought 29% of it. And by buying 29%, it meant that the Glazers STAYED in place and Jim Ratcliffe got to run the football operations. “He's come in and he said, 'I know better than anyone else how to run this club. We're going to do things my way.' And look what it's turned out to be over the past two and a half years. “First of all, he said, 'I'm going to back Erik ten Hag. We've been chopping and changing managers too much.' Then he went off and started meeting Thomas Tuchel and any other manager who was available behind Erik ten Hag's back. “When they couldn't find somebody else, they gave Ten Hag a new contract and money to spend. A couple of games later, Ten Hag loses his job. “In the middle of the season, they beg Ruben Amorim to come to United. He doesn't even want to go there in the middle of the season; he wants to wait until the summer. They pay a fortune to get him, even though he plays three at the back, a totally different kind of football. “Dan Ashworth doesn't want him. Dan Ashworth leaves, Ruben Amorim comes in, they go all in on Ruben Amorim. That doesn't work out. They get rid of him. “They bring in Carrick as an interim. Okay, results are better. Then they give him the full-time job. “In the meantime, Ratcliffe has come in and said, 'We're going to do things my way. No player is going to get paid 250, 300 grand a week here anymore. That's not going to happen. We're not going to sign any players for more than 60, 70 million pounds.’ “So Mateus Fernandes, Elliot Anderson, Harry Kane, Declan Rice, all these players, we ain't going to be signing them. And also, we're only going to be signing players with Premier League experience. And we're going to sign forwards one window, then the following summer we're just going to sign midfielders, then next summer we're just going to sign defenders. “So this is Jim Ratcliffe's way of doing things. So he is to blame for this situation.” TAKE A BOW, SON. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

🚨 NEW: Sources say the handling of the almost 500 job cuts clashed with Joel’s “sense of decency and old-fashioned values.” Joel was once far more hands-on: he spoke to then-executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward several times a day, personally signed off on trivial expenses such as paint orders for Old Trafford’s maintenance team, and vetoed staff furlough plans during Covid so employees stayed on full pay. He has not attended a game at Old Trafford since the Barcelona Champions League match in April 2019. The Glazers also control the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [@MarkOgden_]

Joel Glazer was once so hands-on as owner and co-chairman that he would speak to executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward “several times a day” about the day-to-day business at Old Trafford. One ESPN source said Joel was so involved in the club’s daily operations that he even had the final say on expenses as trivial as paint orders for the Old Trafford maintenance team. Joel also vetoed plans to furlough United staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, insisting that employees remain on full pay despite the cost to the club [@MarkOgden_]