Manchester United's owner has suggested that some of the players at the club are overpaid and not good enough to represent the team.
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It has been a dire decade for the Red Devils. Since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson from the Mancunians in 2013, the English giants have fallen drastically from the apex of the Premier League. They have only finished in the top four five times out of the 12 campaigns since the Scotsman left, and the situation seems to have only worsened.
Last year, petrochemicals conglomerate INEOS bought a minority stake in the club in an effort to turn the team's fortunes around. The Sir Jim Ratcliffe-led ownership group now controls football operations for the record Premier League champions, and in a recent interview, the billionaire claimed that they had inherited a precarious financial situation within the club.
He alluded to this being largely due to the club purchasing players for significant fees before they took control.
"If you look at the players we are buying this summer, that we didn't buy, we're buying Antony, we're buying Casemiro, we're buying Onana, we're buying Hojlund, we're buying Sancho. These are all things from the past, whether we like it or not, we've inherited those things and have to sort that out," he told the BBC.
"For Sancho, who now plays for Chelsea and we pay half his wages, we're paying £17m to buy him in the summer."
He was asked whether he thought the players he had mentioned were not good enough, to which he responded: "Some are not good enough and some probably are overpaid, but for us to mould the squad that we are fully responsible for, and accountable for, will take time.
"We've got this period of transformation where we move from the past to the future.
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"There are some great players in the squad as we know, the captain is a fabulous footballer. We definitely need Bruno, he's a fantastic footballer."
