Gary Neville has set out a clear, but very ambitious, plan for Manchester United owners the Glazer family to follow and ‘reset’ the club.
The former United and England right-back has long been outspoken about changes that need to be made at the club and he continues to call for an overhaul on how it is run.
They are well articulated plans from Neville, although the chances of the Glazers taking them up seem fanciful given how they have run the club since taking over.
A brand new stadium, new training ground and restructure of how the American family finance the club are among his recommendations on offer.
‘They’ve got to stop taking the dividends out of the club if they want to reset the culture,’ Neville told ’ The Overlap. ‘When the owners are pulling money out of the club at the expense of the fans at the expense of the project, it’s a bad message from the very top the cultural aspect of that is terrible
‘They’ve got to pay off that debt and they can do that by selling £500m-worth of shares to the fans, not take it out of the club and pay off that debt, they can then rebuild that stadium for a billion quid.
‘That doesn’t need renovation, that needs a new stadium and that money can be funded by a 20-year contract by getting a sponsor in at £70million-a-year call it something Old Trafford but we have a brand new stadium and it resets the culture of having the best stadium in the world. That needs to happen.
‘They then need to build a new training ground. Roy [Keane] and I were part of the squad when we moved 22 years ago out of The Cliff, we were devastated to leave but we’ve now got a training ground that’s behind Tottenham and the others.
‘They then need to put another £150m-a-year into a proper sporting project along with those four things and then you can say the Glazer family have reset the whole culture from the top; of giving, of doing something that means something.
‘They’ve got to do something that resets the culture of the football club. They’ve not done that for 10 years and they need to do it now. The fans are on the edge again.’
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