In recent months, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has appeared many times in the media to talk about the current situation at Man United. In particular, in an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, the British billionaire even drew the prospect of the team going bankrupt by the end of 2025 if it did not immediately cut costs.
In these appearances, Sir Jim has criticized many people who are "no longer effective" for Man United in terms of practice. In parallel with Sir Jim's sharing of this, Man United fans also take the opportunity to challenge the old leadership, legends that are not useful to the club or players who are receiving high salaries but are not useful.
However, among the dozens of characters or groups of characters mentioned by Sir Jim, there is absolutely no Glazer family. Long-standing American owners have long been seen as the main reason for Man United's current decline. Since Sir Jim officially took over the team and appointed Ruben Amorim, Manchester United has only bought 2 new players with a total value of only 26.5 million pounds (Dorgu and Heaven). Erik ten Hag has previously brought in a series of expensive stars but almost all of them are invaluable. Now, Sir Jim and Amorim have to clean up that pile of scrap.
According to The Athletic, in the terms signed with Glazer in December 2013, Sir Jim was not allowed to publicly criticize the American billionaire family in the media. Even in the opposite direction, the Glazer family was not publicly attacked by the British billionaire.
Sir Jim understands that although he is in the Man United ownership group, his stake is much lower than the Glazer family. Even though he did not have a commitment signed at the end of 2023, he did not want to do this. In recent interviews, the INEOS boss has spoken the most about the financial situation so that everyone can see how much Man United is crumbling.
Although he did not publicly criticize American owners, it seems that Sir Jim does not have a good relationship. In an interview with the Sunday Times, the 72-year-old billionaire said that since successfully buying over management of Man United, he has not met the Glazer family. In addition, Sir Jim also implied that American owners had " withdrawn at night".
Regardless of the relationship between the two sides, it cannot be denied that the appearance of Sir Jim Ratcliffe is reducing negative views of the Glazer family, much lower than when Ed Woodward was in charge of the club. The attention of the media and fans at this time is mostly financial issues and achievements on the pitch.
At this time, all of Sir Jim Ratcliffe's thoughts are on the new Old Trafford with a total project value of about 2 billion pounds. When he started doing this, he did not receive any support from the Glazer family. However, fans have not created a wave of outrage aimed at the American billionaire family anymore. Everything now at Man United, Sir Jim will be the one to face.
Sir Jim is appearing more often in the media as a way to explain to everyone that he is trying his best and is also the victim of a bad legacy left by the Glazer family. As the British billionaire said, if he fails, he will be the one to leave the top floor of Old Trafford.
If that bad scenario happened, the critic would be Sir Jim Ratcliffe, not Glazer, even though American owners were the main culprits of the crisis.
