Manchester United have faced fresh criticism in the wake of Nottingham Forest’s win at Old Trafford.
The fallout from Forest’s 3-2 victory against the Red Devils in the Premier League, thanks to goals from Nikola Milenkovic, Morgan Gibbs-White and Chris Wood, continues, with pundit Richard Keys the latest to take aim at the club and co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. While Nuno’s Reds are riding high in fifth place in the table, United are languishing down in 13th place under new boss Ruben Amorim.
Writing in his blog, Keys criticised Ratcliffe and majority owners, the Glazer family, who rejected a takeover bid from Sheikh bin Hamad Al Thani. He said: “United fans must feel like they’re watching an old episode of Bullseye right - hosted, of course, by Jim Bowen.
“Do you remember his trademark end to a show when another hapless pair of contestants had ****** up? ‘Let’s have a look at what you could’ve won’ he would say and the star prize would be wheeled onto the stage so everybody could gloat at their misfortune.
“Let’s have a look at what United could’ve won if the greedy Glazers had sold the club to my Arab friends here in Qatar. No. On second thoughts, let’s not. It’ll hurt too much and I don’t want to add to the misery of the OT faithful, but surely it’s what every United fan is wondering?
“I’ve said this for a year - ever since Sunny Jim rolled into town and was, for reasons unknown to me, greeted like a hero - the deal was a mess, Sunny Jim was the wrong man and what’s happening at OT now is a shambles.”
“Did no-one do any homework on Sunny Jim? As Ratcliffe and the brains trust continue to destroy Mediocre United (Ratcliffe’s words in that interview last week, not mine) I wonder what the club would look like today if the Glazers had done the right thing and sold to Sheikh bin Hamad Al Thani?” he added.
“Let me ask the question again? Why didn’t they? Only people close to the deal know the real answer, but some things always slip out and I’ve heard that every time the Sheikh agreed to the Glazers’ terms they moved the goalposts. Every time - to the point where trying to do a deal became a farce. Why were my Arab friends given the run-around? Give it some thought. The clue might be in that penultimate sentence.”
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