🔥WATCH THIS: Kaveh Solhekol absolutely TORCHED Jim Ratcliffe on @SkySportsNews! He’s to blame. Full stop. Solhekol didn’t hedge or soft-soap it. He laid out exactly how Ratcliffe’s arrival, buying only 29%, bailing out the Glazers, and seizing control of football operations, has wrecked the club. He was ruthless in his assessment: “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.” That’s the original sin. He didn’t clean house. He just propped up the Glazers. Then the arrogance of the man who thought he knew better: “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.” The managerial mess followed immediately: “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.” And then the transfer policy that locked the club into mediocrity: “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.” He’s right. Ratcliffe rode in as the saviour and has made things measurably worse. It was a mistake from the start and I said so at the time. It was NEVER going to work. The only people who benefited were the Glazers. I’m still surprised so many fans backed this and thought it could succeed. Kaveh just laid bare how damaging Ratcliffe has been for Manchester United. And unfortunately, there’s no end in sight.

🔥 Gary Neville has RIPPED into Manchester United’s owners, branding them INCOMPETENT, CHEAP and SADDLED WITH DEBT! Speaking on The Gary Neville Podcast, he said the fans are rightfully furious with those running the club: “They cannot accept the decision making. The season ticket stuff. The lack of recruitment on defenders.” He then strongly criticised the midfield recruitment failure: “Tottenham have taken the two main targets in midfield. Manchester United decided not to buy them because they can’t afford them! Because of the debt! And all the other waste of money that’s been spent in the last 13 years. An incompetence! It’s a series of bad mistakes.” The defensive situation drew even sharper criticism: “They had to sign defenders! They’d have been better off buying Tonali and Fernandes, rather than signing 3 that are ok. You’ve now got no defenders and that is absolute negligence to leave that defence out on that pitch!” His verdict on the club’s cheap approach was blunt: “Buy cheap, buy twice.” Well said, Gary. Everything he said is bang on. He should call out the owners more often. Saying there’s almost no point because they’re not going anywhere is the wrong attitude. Keep the pressure on. Even if they refuse to sell, that doesn’t mean you stop criticising them or calling for them to go. The only way this football club gets back on its feet is if the whole lot of them go. Keep pushing! 👊