Manchester United: The Glazers or Sir Alex, Who Needs To Be Replaced First?

It is a fine morning here, with clouds free flying in the high above sky, and there is enough light in my room to see the poster of the Red Devils in my wallboard. However, I find it a little gloomy and lost of shine, do you see the same there?

I finally decided to write one of the most controversial pieces down here which has been scratching my mind for long in recent times.

You may feel I am the most odd person to be a Featured Columnist out here, but give the article a second to be settled in your mind and then think.

Manchester United was taken over by Malcolm Glazer in a bit-by-bit acquisition format. He took ownership of the club after buying out the stakes of all the owners. The owner of the Red factory was a brilliant businessman in the process of the club acquisition, however, much of the money used in the process was in the form of loans.

The increasing liability on the secured assets of the club and the emergence of the PIK loans added up to the worries of the club with a nightmare 14.25 percent interest rate per annum. The amount of PIKs stand at £207m while the gross debt for the club is of a £520m, thus captivated in the hands of debt.  

The United fans simply hate Glazer. They go out in huge passion and love to see the Red Devils win and never forget to carry the banner which says "Love United, hate Glazers".

Some of them sit in their homes like couch potatoes and see the watch and quit buying the replica kits of the clubs. Some fancy of joining a fanbase of another club, wealthy of course. And each one of these actions or expressions are put on line to show how much they hate Glazer and want him to go.

A little reality check for Glazer though, the Glazers went ahead with a dream and went ahead with a liability with the hope that some day they can make the club a much bigger thing, with the increased fan support and increased ticket prices.

It was not any mistake that they were not out of an Arab origin who were wealthy enough to invest heavily on the club and inflate the transfer market prices. The way of move may have been wrong but the intention was pretty descent, for the Glazers.

A simple thinking would allow you that without the Glazers United also could have won the three titles and the Championship and sold Christiano Ronaldo and used the money in buying some of the best talents in Europe.

Can you think alternatively, where United lost the game in CL 2005 finishing last in group stage, thus impacting the share prices of the club? But the Glazers were still there, supporting the club and they were finally awarded for the faith after 18 months. Do you find some sense of faith, loyalty, and determination?

Coming to one of the most successor managers of the EPL and world, Sir Alex Ferguson, he has been an advocate for the Glazers all the times. 

That is just though as you cannot always revolt and take up a gun at hard times, but you need to fight with what you have with yourself sometimes. Sir Alex had done that many a times. 

I have myself written a plenty of times that how he stands out as a magician, turning raw diamonds into precious ones. He made Christiano Ronaldo and created Wayne Rooney.

Yes, may be they would have shone if they went to other big clubs too, but do we live in a may be? Sir Alex is know for the eagle eye to pick up players and make them into superstars. And he has been the most successful manager for the PL in its recent history with 11 league titles for the United.

We have said that we want the Glazers out because we have no money to spend on big players in the transfer market, and United seriously needed some new guns.

The increasing ages of Paul Scholes, Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and Edwin Van Dar Saar has been a concern for the club and there has been hardly any in-house player to come up to that level, so we needed four new lines to complete the square.

However, despite all the financial burdens of the club, Ferguson was allowed to spend cash(and not splash) in the summer transfer window. The buying of Chicharito can be justified though but the £10m spending Chris Smalling and the £7m Bebe is still unexplainable to me.

Chris Smalling can be a good player in future but a 10m for the man was out of limits. Rio Ferdinand is counting his final days in United and Johny Evans still looks not that level, so Nemanja Vidic has to take all burden. In this scenario, a proved solid CB could have been the target at £10m.

Questions keep piling like what is Owen Hargreaves and Anderson still doing for the club? Dimitar Berbatov is proving himself at the stage this season while Michael Owen still remains in a slump.

Players like Carlos Tevez and Diego Forlan who were sold out by the club, became hits in their present ones. While Forlan found it hard to acclimatise, Tevez was literally underutilized by Ferguson. 

One of the prime concerns now for United is the deep defence, which were never this poor before. Whom will you blame for the Everton fixture, or a weak Liverpool even gave two goals to them. Is it the strategy going wrong, or the players? Again who will motivate and organise the players?

There are times when you need a change, not for the sake of change but for a leap ahead. Is it the time, and for whom to be the first?

Though you may feel that I have depicted Glazers as a more good power here, but it is natural that Glazers are hated while Sir Alex is worshiped.  And I have just made a different approach here. What do you feel about the article? Please leave your comments and likes as per you think it should be.