He’s a Manchester United player – Sir Jim Ratcliffe vows to take correct decision on Mason Greenwood
New Manchester United minority stakeholder, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has vowed to take the correct decision on Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood.
Greenwood was arrested in January 2022 for attempted rape, controlling behaviour and assault – which put a halt to his Manchester United career.
Greenwood didn’t play football for a year, and was banished from the team until he had all charges against him dropped last February.
In order to avoid some backlash, the club decided against reintegrating him back into the Manchester United fold.
However, Ratcliffe has now hinted that there may be life for Greenwood at Manchester United again, as the academy product continues to shine on loan with Getafe.
“We will make a decision, correct,” said Ratcliffe, who officially completed his partial takeover of United on Tuesday.
“All I can do is talk about the principle of how we will approach decisions like that. Is he the right type of footballer, are we happy with if he is a good person or not?
“He’s a Manchester United footballer, so we are in charge of football.
“So the answer is, ‘yeah, we have to make decisions’. It’s quite clear we have to make a decision. There is no decision that’s been made. He’s on-loan obviously, but he’s not the only one. We’ve got one or two footballers that we have to deal with and we have to make a decision on, so we will do that.
“The process will be: understand the facts not the hype, and then try and come to fair decision on the basis of values, which is basically is he a good guy or not?
“Could he play sincerely for Manchester United well, would we be comfortable with it and would the fans be comfortable with it?”
In a separate interview with the BBC, Ratcliffe added on Greenwood’s situation: “We need to look at facts, judge fairly and take into consideration what the values of the club are.
“Then we come out of that with a decision. It is not appropriate for me to comment on Mason Greenwood.”