Manchester United takeover: Fans plan Old Trafford protest to coincide with new kit launch

Supporters have grown increasingly frustrated with no sale of the club after eight months of a takeover saga
Protest: Manchester United fans are frustrated with the lack of a completed takeover
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George Flood26 June 2023

Manchester United fans are planning to stage an Old Trafford protest that coincides with the launch of the club’s new home kit.

United are due to release their adidas 2023/24 home strip at 9am BST on Tuesday morning (June 27), three days after it was unexpectedly worn ahead of its official unveiling by rapper and lifelong fan Aitch at the Glastonbury Festival.

But fan groups look set to use the launch as a chance to express their ongoing frustration at their owners the Glazer family and a protracted sale process that has still not reached any sort of conclusion after eight months despite two final bidding parties long since being established in Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Qatar’s Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani.

“Overwhelming majority of United fans want to see a conclusion to this protracted sale process with the majority supporting a full sale - at least based on our soundings,” the official independent Manchester United Supporters Trust said on social media.

“Protest planned on Tuesday to make that message clear.”

Fan group The 1958 said they would have a presence outside the club’s megastore at Old Trafford from 9:45am on Tuesday morning in their latest anti-Glazer demonstration, calling for supporters to boycott buying the new kit.

“DON’T FEED GLAZER GREED! The 1958 will have a presence at the megastore on Tuesday,” they wrote on Twitter. “A legal protest from 9:45am. Be there! Bring your anti Glazer flags and banners!

“Be loud, be visual. We don’t stop until they sell our club!”

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