Neville demands Glazers sell Manchester United as club sinks to one point above relegation

Gary Neville has issued a blunt demand for the Glazer family to sell Manchester United, as the club’s deepening crisis leaves them a single point above the Premier League relegation zone and eight matches without a victory, with Michael Carrick continuing in caretaker charge.

Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, Neville laid out a damning financial and sporting case against the American ownership. “There’s £1.2bn of debt in that football club, they’re hamstrung in some ways,” he said. “They’ve spent an absolute fortune, just under Man City in the last 15 years. £1.4bn on players, they’re second in the spending, but a lot of it’s the never-never.”

Neville pointed to the Glazers’ near-total absence from Old Trafford over more than two decades as a symbol of their detachment from the club. “They have to sell now, enough is enough,” he said. “The club is in debt, you’ve not spent a penny on the stadium, you’re now trying to borrow £2bn for a stadium you don’t know how the hell you’ll borrow.”

The criticism arrives more than two years after Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos group took over the club’s football operations in a deal that left the Glazers as majority owners — an arrangement Neville described as “ridiculous”. United have now gone 13 years without a league title since Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure, and Neville argued that subcontracting football decisions to a separate party had only compounded the structural dysfunction.

United’s next fixture takes them to Stamford Bridge on Saturday to face Chelsea, a side also navigating turbulence of their own. Chelsea manager Xabi Alonso is under pressure following a defeat to Tottenham and a Carabao Cup exit to Liverpool on penalties.