Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said he will walk away from the club should the abuse he has received reach the same level endured by the Glazer family.
Ratcliffe bought a minority stake in United a year ago but has drawn the ire of fans as fortunes have continued to fade on the field, while he has raised ticket prices and made swingeing cuts to the clubās staffing.
The British billionaire has not yet received the same level of backlash as the Glazer family, who have owned the club since a controversial leveraged takeover in 2005.
Protests against the Americans are commonplace at Old Trafford and Ratcliffe said he had barely seen the Glazers since buying a 29 percent stake in United for a reported £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion).
āI can put up with it for a while,ā Ratcliffe told the Sunday Times.
āI donāt mind being unpopular because I get that nobody likes seeing Manchester United down where they are, and nobody likes the decisions weāre having to make at the moment.
āIf I draw a bit of the ire, I can put up with that. But Iām no different to the average person. Itās not nice, particularly for friends and family.
āSo, eventually, if it reached the extent that the Glazer family have been abused, then Iād have to say, look, enoughās enough guys, let somebody else do this.ā
Hopes that Ratcliffeās arrival could herald a new era of success for United have so far been unfulfilled.
The decision to hand former manager Erik ten Hag a new contract at the end of the last season before sacking the Dutchman in October and the swift departure of sporting director Dan Ashworth have proved expensive mistakes.
Ruben Amorim has struggled to make any tangible improvements since replacing Ten Hag, with United languishing in the lower reaches of the Premier League table.
Ratcliffe also riled United players this week with comments that some of them are āoverpaidā and ānot good enoughā.
The club unveiled plans for a new 100,000-capacity stadium earlier this week at a reported cost of £2 billion.
An ambitious project hopes to complete the stadium build within five years, but Ratcliffe said he would not hang around if the abuse coming his way got worse over a prolonged period.
āThey canāt really come to a match, the Glazers. Theyāve retreated into the shadows a bit now, so Iām getting all the stick,ā he added.
āWe bought in and I havenāt seen them since. Itās, āthank you, Jim, youāre doing a really good jobā.
āAt the moment, I donāt have security, I donāt have to walk around like that. But it would defeat the object, wouldnāt it? You couldnāt tolerate it at that level, it just wouldnāt be fun.ā






































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