Most of it very interesting.
The Man United co-owner sat down with the BBC and Gary Neville to talk about all things MUFC in which the INEOS Chairman gave his thoughts about the current state of affairs at the club, issues on the field and why certain difficult decisions had to be made.
One of the more interesting things he said (in my opinion) was that he feels Ruben Amorim is doing a "good job" with the players he has at his disposal.
"If I actually look at the squad which is available to Ruben, I think he is doing a really good job to be honest.
"I think Ruben is an outstanding young manager. I really do. He's an excellent manager and I think he will be there for a long time."
He adds that the Portuguese is doing as well as he can considering United's team are at it's bare bones with all the injuries citing that many on the bench for the Arsenal game hadn't actually worn a first-team shirt for the club.
"There's no squad left."
I cannot disagree with him. This is probably one of the best things Sir Jim's said.
We've complained for a long time that this group of players are shite, let's not beat about the bush. Not all of them but far too many shouldn't be at the club.
To hear the co-owner say this means that we are in agreement on at least one thing. I also agree that Amorim is a top coach and given the right tools (players) he will get us to a decent level if not back to the top.
The United manager has seen his side play terrible football and pick up terrible results but despite this, I do believe he still has the backing of the majority of the fan base and clearly, the co-owner as well.
While it isn't a great position we're in on the field, we know that Amorim was brought in to do what he did at Sporting. He had a poor start to life in Lisbon as well but after backing in his second summer, Amorim got the players he wanted and won the league.
This is where Sir Jim comes in. The key was that Sporting gave Amorim what he needed to be able to play the football he wants. The same needs to happen at United. It is the only way for him to succeed and potentially be here for a long time, like Sir Jim says. This is a little contrasting though, because the manager himself said a couple of days ago that he won't get the time Mikel Arteta had to rebuild Arsenal.
The fact that the co-owner also acknowledges that the current squad isn't good enough means that he knows what needs to be done in order to get United back firing again.
Sir Jim also gave a big update on the futures of young players like Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho saying that youngsters like them "No no. We won't be selling players because of the state we are in financially."
He mentions how the club was bloated but that that has now been sorted out and that decisions on players' futures will all be determined by how well they perform.
In January, there were very loud rumors that both Mainoo and Garnacho could potentially be sold with a lot of people believing this to be in order to bring funds into the club as our current financial state is pretty dire.
Garnacho was somewhat close to a move to Chelsea with the news stating that the player was open to transfering to the Blues.
That obviously didn't happen and neither did Mainoo moving elsewhere which was a relief for us all because whatever you make of them at the moment and whether you think they are that good, the pair of them are exactly what United is all about: the youth.
They are two players from the academy and our academy is one of the best in the world with United featuring at least one academy graduate in the matchday squad for over 80 years.
This shows how important the youth is to us.
So potentially letting two of the brighter academy players go just to bring money in was seen as a massive no-no.
With Sir Jim Ratcliffe clarifying that selling such players to raise funds will not be the case, we can rest easy knowing that two players (and others) that are highly rated and come from the academy won't be sold.
With him saying that for players to be sold, it will have to be because of how they perform on the pitch, that is correct as well and at the moment, these two youngsters aren't performing to their level. Mainoo is also injured.
I'm also sure that when he says they sorted out the bloating issue, it means that by canceling charity events, raising ticket prices, sacking 450 staff and so on, they are in a more stable position financially.
This still doesn't make those things right, if this is the case. Those people aren't at fault for all these issues as it's on the club. They need to find better ways of solving these problems because how they've gone about their business simply isn't right.
"A lean and efficient organization"? Not sure what that means because a lot of what they've done has been quite negative which have infuriated the fans. To back and then sack Erik ten Hag not long after giving him a contract extension was seen as a little foolish (Sir Jim admitted that keeping him and Dan Ashworth was a mistake 👀) and to then bring in Ruben Amorim mid-season but not back him in January was seen as even foolish-er.
They gave him the ultimatum of taking over United now or never with Amorim saying that you cannot turn United down as a reason as to why he took the job despite it's many difficulties. He became manager and also admitted that he didn't expect things to be going this badly. Not being backed in January would've been a big blow to what he wanted to do for this season with many rightfully saying that 'what was the point of hiring him in November if you're not going to back him?'
No players were truly moved on, only Patrick Dorgu and Ayden Heaven have come in and if this is all he's gotten, then they may as well have kept ten Hag until the end of the season and brought Amorim in then, which is what he preferred. This would've given him a proper pre-season and more of a chance to clear house as well as get the players he wanted.
The other issue with this 'lean and efficient organization' was the Dan Ashworth situation. I'm not going to go into too much detail there because you know how embarrassing that was even if they came to the right decision in the end. Still though, they should've done their homework on such a high position.
The INEOS boss says that "we've inherited those things and have to sort that out" when discussing signings like Hojlund, Antony, Casemiro and Onana from the past.
Reminds of that famous Mourinho 'football heritage' quote 😳.
He also talks about how the club are still paying half of Sancho's wages despite him being on loan at Chelsea and will probably be their player next season.
I find it interesting that he name-checks these players. I feel like it's him saying that these are some of those that aren't good enough and need to be moved on. They were/are quite expensive and have been more of a failure than a success so you can't blame him for speaking about them.
But they are just a handful of players that need to go as there are so many more. This would've helped had they removed them instead of having those redundancies.
So much more to unpack so there will be more on this topic including the announcement of a new stadium later today 👀.
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