Sir Jim Ratcliffe's first year at Man Utd as 5 big decisions backfire on INEOS boss
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Sir Jim Ratcliffe marks one year as part-owner of Manchester United today - but it has not proven the cause of celebration most fans imagined on Christmas Eve 12 months ago. The INEOS arrival, costing £1.05bn for a 25 per cent stake in the club, has not carried the transformative effect initially hoped for at Old Trafford despite an FA Cup final win last May against neighbours Manchester City.
And while Ratcliffe’s vision is still being implemented, many of his big decisions in the opening 12 months have backfired or received sustained backlash. Here are five of the biggest calls made so far and, really, none of them have had a positive impact.
The hierarchy had explored the availability of a number of new head coaches and provisionally decided before the FA Cup final that Ten Hag would be sacked with a new man in place well before pre-season. Then the team produced a really impressive performance to win at Wembley and United decided to do a U-turn and trigger an extension in the Dutchman’s contract.
And that has set them back several months while threatening to make this season a write-off. Ruben Amorim could prove the man who turns things around but without huge sums to spend in the transfer market, after United committed £150m in the summer, he has a squad not perfectly suited to his preferred tactical plan and that could take several windows to remedy.
