Gary Neville demands Glazers sell Manchester United immediately after Ineos failures

Gary Neville has issued a blunt demand for the Glazer family to relinquish ownership of Manchester United, declaring on his podcast that the American owners have run out of time after more than a decade of decline at Old Trafford.

Speaking on The Overlap, the former United and England defender said: “The Glazers have to sell. They have to sell now. The time has come. They’ve subcontracted the football department out to Ineos. Ineos are trying to run the football department and have had three years of struggling and failing and now it looks like they’re struggling again.”

Neville’s intervention follows an ESPN report this week claiming the Glazers are considering a full sale once a new stadium is completed, or potentially if Manchester City are expelled from the Premier League. The same report suggested the family have grown increasingly frustrated with the decision-making of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos team since the minority takeover.

“The Glazer family are over there in America, in Tampa, where they’re very popular and go to every game apparently. They’ve hardly been to Old Trafford in 20-odd years,” Neville continued. “The club is in debt, you’ve not spent a penny on the stadium, you’re trying to borrow £2bn for a stadium that you don’t know how you’re going to borrow. There’s basically failure of 13 or 14 years in the football side.”

Financial figures released in February confirmed the club’s debt is approaching £1.3bn. United posted record revenues of £677.6m last month — a 1.7 per cent rise — but still recorded losses of £43m.

Neville also pointed to the end of dividend payments as a sign the ownership model has broken down. “Up until three years ago they were taking dividends out. But now enough is enough. They have to sell the whole club.”

On the pitch, manager Michael Carrick is under scrutiny following a 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth, though he is set to remain in charge for the trip to Chelsea. Eddie Howe and Julian Nagelsmann have been mentioned as potential successors should the club decide to act. Chief executive Omar Berrada and sporting director Jason Wilcox have also faced criticism over the direction of the footballing operation under Ineos.