Jim Ratcliffe’s sporting interests hit crisis point as debts soar at Ineos – The Irish Times
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Have they been Michael Knightoned again? For real this time?
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Are they worth a £1 now?
Ratcliffe is laying as many off as possible… so when he puts his proposal together for the Government to fund a new stadium… he will have fleshed his recruitment drive numbers up so much, as in, creating jobs… albeit, they are the same jobs/positions, that he has just made redundant… but dressed up in an entire different way…!
It’s an outrageous lie to say we are breaking redundancy laws. Everyone we lose is gone and their position is not being replaced! Unfortunately the careteria staff were too expensive!
Anyway in other news we are now hiring Dining Exective’s to work in our cafete… er I mean dining facility.
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Yeah there is Probably an element of a billionaire pleading poverty seems common that those who have seen somewhat upset they have to pay a bit more.
Sir Jim is in over his head. His Ineos empire has more debt than you can shake a stick at. Little by little he is becoming a figure of hate at Man Utd. If he fanatasized about being a knight in shining armour, that has not happened. Not even close.
The Glazer’s are laughing their arses off. All the power. All the money. And they don’t even have to mess with the thing.
Sir Jim is their stooge and he is a fool.
£1.5B or whatever it was, and he has no real power, the ship is sinking, Amorim is not the elite coach they need and he is in over his head too, and Sir Jim is increasingly hated by the fans.
So what does the multi-billionaire do? He keeps going after the lowly workers, the hourly people, the ones on a modest wage. It’s a PR nightmare, and wrong-headed on any number of levels.
Catweazle divvy.
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Utd U18s beat Chelsea 5-1 in the Youth Cup with a hattrick from the much hyped Chido Obi-Martin, whi was signed from Arsenal.
I know people love goals but once again just take a watch of those highlights and tell me what Obi-Martin does that will work at first team level… first goal is a run off the CB that a PL defender wouldn’t allow and he isn’t closed down by the GK so has a simple finish then he has two tap ins.
Jaydan Kamason, who played RB, is for the best player in that U18 team. He was superb, watch his build up and cross for James Scanlon’s first goal.
I don’t even watch their first team these days. No way I’m going to waste my time watching their kids play. 
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He can only sort out expensive players during transfer windows…
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Their kids teams are way better than their first team but point taken
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Look at that, entirely predictable the BBC have a puff piece on Obi, quoting some nobody youtuber that he’d be a first teamer at Arsenal now and then a random Man Utd fan claiming that “At under-18 and under-21 level, he hasn’t really played against anyone as quick and strong” Which is fair comment but does also fail to mention that he has played just twice at U21 level despite his big reputation and has failed to score yet.
The idea from the Arsenal commentor that he’d be in the first team just smacks of ignorance. Arsenal had a clear pathway to move him into the U21 squad and did not do it. They wouldn’t be turning to him now even with their striker issues and if they did Obi would be easily handled by PL defenders. Being tall isn’t enough to trouble professional players but yeah you’re going to find success against a 5’6" 16 year old CB.
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That’s because you misunderstand the point of the article.
The narrative was already decided upon beforehand, and the rest just conjured up to fit it.
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And the Rashford cycle starts anew…
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All this would serve is that Ratcliffe would end up outsourcing most of these jobs to external agencies.
It’s sad and tone deaf because the people out of a job are people who care for the club and who’ve probably worked their asses of for this club.
But who cares eh. Rashford gets 350k a week , Casemiro gets roughly the same amount , Antony on 200+ a week as well. Ordinary honest folks getting shafted because of the money being given by the superich to the super rich.
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The fact that Ratcliffe has gone with the lowest denominators means that he’s got no empathy and he’s certainly incapable of running a people centric business (as that’s what football clubs are).
If the finances were that bad , why didn’t he let Casemiro , Antony etc move on the free. Even if to atleast get their wages out. Even if it means United will struggle in the transfer market for a while due to that.
The newsflash for him is that United are still going to struggle in the transfer market regardless of whether he calls more of the lowest denominators out.
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And as bad as the Glazers have been for United (bless them) , they never stooped to this extent.
Not yet. We must first see the Mainoo story to completion before it can begin again.
I don’t think ManU is limited to destroying the careers of just one promising young player at a time. Obi is probably the 2026 or 2027 Mainoo, though Sweeting’s comments suggest he is likely to be derailed earlier in his development
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Anything from Simon Stone should go straight to the bin.
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