Man United ‘slash ticket prices for Manchester derby due to lack of sales’

Manchester United has reportedly halved their ticket prices for Sunday's derby after a lack of admission.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe made a deep unpopular decision earlier this season when he raised the ticket prices for members to £ 66, even removing concessions for OAPS and children.

Fans were beaten with a series of protests against property, with thousands for the draw with Arsenal earlier this month, and plan a sit-in for the collision with Manchester City.

And it seems that they might have made a dent, because United has reduced the ticket prices for the derby to £ 40 and has again introduced concessions at £ 25, according to the Sun.

Moreover, they have also reduced the prices for members for the rest of the season.

It comes after they have not sold the derby at the raised price, although they are now expected to collect a full house.

Fangroep The 1958 plans a sit-in protest at the Manchester Derby next weekend after she and Breakaway Club FC United had a joint protest against the glazers on Saturday.

The 1958 organized the largest demonstration of anti-ownership since Sir Jim Ratcliffe co-owner was visited then Arsenal Old Trafford, and they continued their fight seven miles away on the Broadhurst Park site of FC United on Saturday.

The acquisition of the glazers was the catalyst of the FCUM foundation in 2005 and the 1958 joined them in their position against ownership and the current situation around Manchester United as part of the first 'United United Day' in six years.

On Sunday they will hold a sit-in protest after the derby, after they last did this in August 2023, when thousands of fans stayed behind after a match against Nottingham Forest.

Chris Haymes from the 1958 group said: 'We will leave people on their seats.

'Must (Manchester United Supporters Trust) has done a Flash survey and they think there will be around 7,000 concessions, OAP people who will not extend their season cards.

'So they try to praise them out of their seats, so we are going to tell you to sit in your chair, to stay in your chair. That is your seat for which you have paid. You have probably done over the past 50 or 60 years. After that game we stay in that chair. '

Earlier this month a spokesperson from 1958 said: 'The club is slowly dying before our eyes, on and next to the field, and the fault is square in the current ownership model.

'In many ways this is the biggest crisis with which the club was confronted since the air disaster in Munich [which killed 23 in 1958] Who inspires our name. '

Manchester United will first have to contend with a Tuesday evening trip to Nottingham Forest and 13th in the Premier League.

In a boost for Ruben Amorim, Luke Shaw, Harry Maguire and Leny Yoro have all returned to training in recent days.

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