Sir Jim Ratcliffe confident he can work alongside the Glazers at Manchester United

Sir Jim Ratcliffe has insisted that he has no concerns working alongside the Glazer family at Manchester United.

Ratcliffe's arrival as a minority shareholder of the 20-time English champions was confirmed on Tuesday evening, but the much-criticised Glazers have retained a majority stake at Old Trafford.

INEOS will take over football operations as part of the new structure, and Ratcliffe is confident that he can work with the Americans to help restore Man United to the top of football.

«I only know Joel and Avram and they are, despite what you might read in the press, very nice people, very courteous and they are avid supporters of Manchester United. I understand the frustrations and the anger [of supporters] but I am looking forward not backward,» he told BBC Sport.

«Try to be patient and we'll try to build Manchester United back to where it should be, which is as one of the very elite clubs in the world. The key to it working is the relationship we will have with Joel and Avram, which in my view is a very good and trusting relationship.

»I think in a way it might have been the easier solution for the Glazer family to sell outright to the Qataris. To be fair to the Glazers, they thought the best solution was to sell to me because they thought United would benefit more from that.

«Ultimately the level we want to get Manchester United to is not the level we are at. That takes time. It's not just about players, it is the whole machine. There are thousands of people in that machine and we need to get that machine working really well.

»We need to be as good as anyone else in the game at recruitment and we haven't been. FFP [Financial Fair Play] is a new element in football and a really important part of managing a football