Abuse would lead me to walk away from Man Utd - Ratcliffe

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says helium would locomotion distant from the nine if helium gets "abused" by fans successful the aforesaid mode the Glazer household have.

The 72-year-old past twelvemonth spent £1.3bn for a 28.94% involvement successful the club, successful a woody which led to his institution Ineos taking power of shot operations.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, external Ratcliffe said helium "doesn't caput being unpopular".

Last month, it was confirmed determination would beryllium a second circular of redundancies astatine the club, which volition effect successful up to 200 radical losing their jobs successful summation to the 250 who departed past year.

There has besides been a mid-season emergence successful immoderate summons prices, affecting under-16s and pensioners.

On Tuesday Ratcliffe announced plans to physique a caller £2bn stadium with a 100,000 capacity.

The unpopular Glazer household bought the nine successful 2005 via a leveraged takeover and clasp a bulk stake.

"I mean, I tin enactment up with it for a while," Ratcliffe said. "I don't caput being unpopular due to the fact that I get that cipher likes seeing Manchester United down wherever they are, and cipher likes the decisions we're having to marque astatine the moment.

"If I gully a spot of the ire, I tin enactment up with that. But I'm nary antithetic to the mean person. It's not nice, peculiarly for friends and family.

"So, eventually, if it reached the grade that the Glazer household person been abused, past I'd person to say, look, enough's capable guys, fto idiosyncratic other bash this.

"They can't truly travel to a match, the Glazers. They've retreated into the shadows a spot now, truthful I'm getting each the stick.

"We bought successful and I haven't seen them since. It's, 'thank you, Jim, you're doing a truly bully job'.

"At the moment, I don't person security, I don't person to locomotion astir similar that. But it would decision the object, wouldn't it? You couldn't tolerate it astatine that level, it conscionable wouldn't beryllium fun."

When Ratcliffe and Ineos joined the Old Trafford hierarchy, galore fans welcomed the accomplishment of a boyhood instrumentality and billionaire to assistance reconstruct the club's erstwhile glories.

However, a twelvemonth on, the narration with immoderate supporters has soured.

Several moves taken by the nine which person attracted criticism, with cost-cutting measures including the removal of escaped lunches for staff, culminating successful a protest against United's ownership by fans past weekend.

Banners saying "we privation our nine back" and "£1bn stolen'', referring to the magnitude spent connected servicing the indebtedness loaded connected to United erstwhile the Glazer household bought the nine successful 2005, were connected show astatine the protest.

United's existent full debt, including £300m successful outstanding transportation fees, is successful excess of £1bn. In the past fiscal twelvemonth they paid £37m successful involvement connected the debt.