"Jim Ratcliffe told us he wanted to put the Manchester back in Man Utd. He's taking it out." π£οΈ
Man Utd fans were out in full force to support The 1958's protest against the club's ownership π΄
π¨π¨π£οΈ A spokesperson for The 1958:
βRecent results are down to Michael Carrick and the players and they have come in spite of our inept ownership, not because of it. This club continues to fumble from one calamity to the next. Fans should not be fooled by two good results. We have been here too many times before.
βOur protest has never been about performances on the pitch. Not now, and not once in the last 21 years. We are judging a dysfunctional ownership model that has repeatedly failed Manchester United.
βJim Ratcliffe is a successful and wealthy businessman. But in a football sense, for many he comes across as a clueless clown, making one poor decision after another, with no cohesive plan.β
#MUFC [@The__1958]
π£οΈPROTEST DETAILS | Fulham Sunday 1 Feb π΄β
π Time: 1pm
π Dual locations:
Meeting Point A: Top of Sir Matt Busby Way/Chester Rd
Meeting Point B: Outside Hotel Football
Both groups will converge at the Trinity.
Maybe a surprise on the day that reflects our dysfunctional, inept ownership.
π₯ Bring the heat
π Bring the noise
β€οΈ Bring your love for the club
See you Sunday.
The 1958πΎπͺ
Letter To @AndyBurnhamGM Mayor Of Manchester.
Dear Mayor Burnham,
I am writing to you not only as a football supporter, but as someone who believes deeply in Manchesterβs identity, heritage, and future.
I urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the regeneration application put forward by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazer family. This proposal is not about the people of Manchester, nor about football, nor about genuine regeneration. It is about power, vanity, and profit at the expense of a historic institution that helped put this city on the global map.
For nearly 20 years, Manchester United has been systematically hollowed out by the Glazer family. Since their leveraged takeover in 2005, the club has been burdened with over Β£1 billion in debt, interest payments, fees, and dividends. While rival clubs invested in stadiums, training facilities, local jobs, and community infrastructure, Old Trafford was allowed to decay its roof leaking, facilities falling behind, and safety repeatedly questioned. This neglect was not accidental; it was the predictable outcome of an ownership model designed to extract wealth rather than build value.
During this period, the Glazers paid themselves hundreds of millions of pounds in dividends while the clubβs competitiveness, reputation, and relationship with supporters steadily eroded. This is not regeneration. This is extraction.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS now present themselves as saviours, yet their actions raise serious concerns. This project increasingly appears to be a vanity-led redevelopment, using Manchester Unitedβs cultural and emotional capital to secure planning permissions, public goodwill, and long-term commercial upside without clear guarantees that the club, its supporters, or the local community will truly benefit.
Manchester United is not a property asset.
It is not a branding exercise.
It is not a financial instrument.
It is a civic institution, woven into the social, cultural, and economic fabric of this city. The clubβs name is synonymous with Manchester across every continent. To allow those who have demonstrably damaged it to now reshape large parts of our city in their own image would be a profound failure of stewardship.
You have long spoken about protecting Manchester from decisions imposed by distant elites who do not live with the consequences of their actions. This is one of those moments. Approving this project would reward two decades of mismanagement and signal that global financiers can exploit our greatest institutions, then return asking for civic approval when it suits them.
Regeneration must be done with the people of Manchester, not to them.
It must be rooted in transparency, accountability, and community ownershipnot debt, leverage, and legacy-polishing.
Manchester deserves better.
Manchester United deserves better.
I ask you to stand with supporters, residents, and future generations by rejecting this application and demanding a vision for regeneration that genuinely serves the city and protects its soul.
Yours sincerely,
A concerned Manchester United supporter
- Drowning in debts
- Years of mismanagement
- Poor recruitment and decision making
- Owners taking billions from the club
- Terrible decision making from top to bottom
Enough is enough.
#UnitedIsBroken
- Drowning in debt
- Decades of mismanagement
- Failure on and off the pitch
- Poor recruitment decisions
- Empty and broken promises
- Exploiting the match going fans
Enough is enough. #UnitedIsBroken
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Enough is enough! π‘
We urge all @ManUtd fans to back #UnitedIsBroken Movement if you want your United back.
π¨π₯ | Kaveh Solhekol:
"Michael Carrick, fantastic player.. but it doesn't matter who is in charge.
"The problems at Manchester United are to do with the OWNERSHIP model [Glazers/INEOS].
"Unless that changes, NOTHING is going to change."
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he called out all the bullshit at this club before getting sacked.
He died on his own sword and I fucking respect that π«‘
#INEOSOUT#GlazersOut#ManUtd
β½οΈSad state of affairs β the blame game?
This is how the blame β must β be divided:
πΊAmorim deserves 5% of the blame
πΊWilcox and Berrada deserves 5% of the blame
πΊGlazers and Ineos deserves 90% of the blame
And BTW, fans who supported or didnβt support this or that manager deserves no blame.
β½οΈWhy does the owners deserve the blame? We finished 15th and had a midfield that had been destroyed three season in a row.
We moved out HΓΈjlund, Rashford, Antony, Sancho and Garnacho up front, Eriksen at CM and Lindelof, Evans and Onana.
I.e. we moved out 5 attacking players, 1 CM, 2 defenders and 1 GK.
The owners sanctioned spending enabling us to buy 4 players.
β½οΈOur wage bill is around 6th in the PL as The Athletic noted last week. By my calculations β less than half of City and Liverpoolβs.
The cost of assembling this squad (removing the players out on loan, Onana, Sancho and HΓΈjlund) β is a fraction of our rivals.
We are a team in turmoil. Itβs much harder to recruit well when you are struggling. Anyone who has followed football closely for a long time knows that a club in our position must overshoot, not undershoot, to get out of the funk.
β½οΈThe last thing that must be pointed out is that we are heavily influenced by a group of pundits who simply doesnβt a heck of a lot more damage than good.
Just the other day Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes were discussing how Roy Keane really should be given a chance as MUFC manager. He did well at Sunderland. Does anyone know how long ago he coached Sunderland? Itβs 17 years since he left them.
We finished 15th and Gary Neville was positively surprised that we signed 3 players after moving out 9 (he forgot Lammens).
β οΈThe fan base must come together and put pressure on the owners. There is so much they can do to support the team.
If we come to the spring and things arenβt going well β enough must be enough, once and for all.