Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS have done nothing positive since they arrived at the club, Paul Scholes has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the ticket price hikes have been so ridiculous, and if anything, the cost should be lower with the poor quality of football the supporters see every week.
Scholes added that Sir Jim clearly does not care about the fans with the way he has been moving since he took over the affairs of the club.
His words, “Sixty-six pounds for a ticket is ridiculous. If you think of Manchester, there are so many deprived areas and Sir Jim Ratcliffe himself is from Failsworth, which is a deprived area.
If you take one kid with you, that’s £120, if you take a family, you’re looking at £300-400 – it’s not right.
They [Ineos] have been in charge [of United] for nearly a year now and everything is still negative. I can’t think of something positive that they’ve done for the football club.
Things are getting worse on the football pitch so couldn’t they have just said that they’d do cheaper tickets – couldn’t they just give us something positive?
How can you ask Manchester United fans to pay more money with what’s on the football pitch?
Where do these owners get the front to put ticket prices up for what we’re watching? For the value, we’re probably having our worst-ever Premier League season and they’ve got the cheek to put the prices up.
There is nothing positive happening with that football club. The team look bang average. They’re not doing anything for fans.
If we’ve got Sir Jim Ratcliffe, compared to all these American owners, who’s been a United fan since growing up in an area in Manchester, he’s still hiking prices up… it just shows that they don’t care.”
WOW.
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.
Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.
The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992, beating Nottingham Forest 1–0 in the second to win that competition for the first time as well.
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