Manchester United icon Nicky Butt has made the club's long-term plan for success and claims that the proposed master plan “is not going to happen”.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Ineos and the club as a whole have outlined ambitious plans to bring success back to the red side of Manchester in the near future, and claims that the club will again be Premier League champions by 2028.
Those plans, which have been labeled as 'project 150', coincide with the club's 150 -year anniversary and also include the ambition to compete for a fourth European cup at that time.
However, Butt has suggested that the idea that United will again be one of the top teams in Europe in the room of three years is unrealistic and unreachable.
Speaking at the Champions for Children Gala dinner, according to The Times, he said: “If I am honest – and I don't like to talk about bulls *** – that will not happen.
“There is still a long way to go. What brings me is when people talk about achieving where they want to be – everyone expects other clubs to sit still, but they also move forward.
“Newcastle, Liverpool gets better, [Manchester] City will certainly get better, Chelsea will get better, Arsenal gets better every year. And then of course there are also many smaller clubs.
“The most important thing is to start on the right foot and hopefully bring to bed this season, because it has been a disaster.
“And hopefully we get some plans for the stadium, we get some new recruitment and give Ruben Amorim the right tools to try and at least get a decent team on the field.”
Man Utd has had a horrible campaign this season and is currently 13th in the Premier League, while they had already been dumped from the FA Cup and League Cup.
The terrible form has come in the same season as enormous cuts on the budget, recoil of fang groups, large name deviations and now increased ticket prices.
Man UTD announced a five percent increase in the costs of the season tickets for adults, and turfs a few hundred seasonal card holders from their usual seats to make way for a new hospitality area behind the old Trafford Dugout in the Sir Bobby Charlton stand.
Club legend Ryan Giggs, who also attended the Gala Dinner, has taunted the United Hierarchy for their decision to move fans of those seats and demand friends of his “Do not know where they go” after 25 years in the same place.
He hit: “Man Utd is special because of what we have done on the field for a number of years, but the fans have always made the club.
'My friends have been [behind] The Dugout for 25 years and they are being taken away.
“They don't know where they are going. That is the experience I have first touched by friends who just wonder where they will be. It's difficult.
“They have their names on their seats. They have been there for 25 years and they have to move. It's hard to see the club in this kind of situation.”
Butt also weighed the changes and added: “There are many things I think they are doing wrong, but we all know that and it's sad to see.
“Because I have loved Manchester United since I was six years old and it is not the Manchester United that I know and loved.” I think it's bizarre how ticket prices continue to rise. They can't keep rising. Something must stop, give something.
“They don't have the added fallback of winning a lot of medals. I see where it comes from. They try to balance the books, but they punish the wrong people, in my eyes.”
Owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe of minorities revealed earlier this month that United would “produce cash by the end of 2025” if it had not been for increased prices and huge cuts in the club.
United announced that 200 employees will be made superfluous this year, after more than 250 were released in 2024.
While other cuts on the budget have thrown away the annual Christmas party, removing free lunches for staff and Sir Alex Ferguson remove from his paid role as an ambassador.
Despite the enormous cuts and taking care of finances at the club, United has still announced plans to build a brand new stadium with 100,000 seats to replace Old Trafford.
It is thought that the project costs around £ 2 billion, and designs delivered a circus tent-like design after architects had been consulted to mock some images of the new house of the Red Devils.
But Giggs doesn't even think that the club is sticking to their plans to keep the tent to the stadium.
He said: “I think everyone, if possible, wants to keep the stadium as it is. What they did in the well -camp, what they did in the Bernabeu.
“If that is not possible, then the following is best that a new stadium is. United has always had a first time in technology, about having the best facilities, having the best stadium, having the best fan experience and we lag behind.
“In addition to the field, outside the field, we have been left with many things. The design will not look that way, I don't think.
“I think when you see buildings and it gets the headlines and it's that kind of shock.
“But if it becomes a new stadium, what it looks like, it must be the best. Hopefully we will also get the best players on the field.”
Furthermore, investigated on the circus designs, he said, “I don't think it's going to happen!”
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