SIMON JORDAN: The Man United we knew under Sir Alex Ferguson is DEAD
The Glazers are undoubtedly a convenient scapegoat for Manchester United's problems but the club's malaise runs deeper than the identity of the owners.
While fan indignation at the barefaced profiteering United's owners have exhibited since landing the football deal of the century in 2005 has some resonance, supporters are delusional if they think a change at the top will be the panacea for one of the club's main problems.
Namely, that football has evolved and United no longer dominate. So while 'Glory, Glory Man United' chants have been replaced with 'Glazers Out' at Old Trafford, the truth is they're no longer the only club with the financial muscle that allowed them to rack up multiple titles in the early Premier League years.
It is true a fish rots from the head down but it's too easy to blame the Glazers for everything that is wrong with England's biggest club. Sure, the Americans are far from ideal but when United were dominating, no one was pointing to Martin Edwards as some kind of visionary or perfect owner - he nearly sold up to Michael Knighton for £20million three years before the dawn of the Premier League for goodness sake!
The bottom line is, United's success back then was down to Sir Alex Ferguson on the pitch and David Gill behind the scenes.
In any business, you are never going to excel unless you get really top-end people that can carry you to where you want to go - and United still haven't got them. They haven't got them on the pitch, they haven't got them in the dugout and, in recent times, haven't had them in the boardroom. That naturally leads to an accusation that the Glazers are the ultimate problem but Ferguson was the reason for United's past success, not Edwards, so why should it be different
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