Gary Neville tells Glazers to sell Manchester United

Manchester United’s latest collapse has reignited a familiar argument among supporters about who is responsible for the club’s decline.

Michael Carrick has kept his job for now, but United’s eight-game winless run has left them 16th in the Premier League, just one point above the relegation zone.

Off the pitch, frustration has continued over rising costs, ownership and the future of the stadium that has been home to the club since 1910.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s arrival raised hopes that football operations would improve, yet the Glazer family remain the majority owners.

For many fans, the latest results have only sharpened questions about whether anything fundamental has changed.

Gary Neville tells Glazers to sell Manchester United

Gary Neville has now delivered a fresh demand for the Glazer family to sell Manchester United, arguing that the club’s debt and prolonged sporting decline cannot continue under the current ownership.

Speaking on Stick to Football, the former United captain said, “There’s £1.2bn of debt in that football club right now, they’re hamstrung in some ways,” Neville 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.

“It’s debt, they owe hundreds of millions on players, overdraft and debt, that’s Manchester United.

“Surely the Glazer family over in America, in Tampa, they’re very popular over there, they go to every game, apparently, I hear, they go to all the NFL games, they’ve never been to Old Trafford hardly in 20-odd years.

“My point is, they have to sell now, enough is enough, 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 you’ll how the hell you’ll borrow.

“You’ve got a failure of a 13, 14 years on the football side, you’ve subbed it out to somebody else, which is ridiculous, is it now at a point where they have to sell.”

The Glazers completed their takeover in 2005 through a leveraged buyout that loaded hundreds of millions of pounds of debt onto United.

Around £1.2bn left the club between 2005 and 2024 through interest, debt repayments, dividends and fees.

Ratcliffe’s 2024 investment gave him control of football operations but left the Glazers with majority ownership.

United’s proposed new 100,000-seat stadium, estimated at around £2bn, has added another financial concern, with the club acknowledging that the project could increase its debt.

Neville’s comments arrive as Carrick fights to revive United’s season.

The board has decided to retain him for now, but upcoming fixtures will test whether the team can finally respond.