Almost two thirds of Manchester United supporters are sad with the membership’s possession underneath Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a survey has revealed.

The survey by the Manchester United Supporters’ Belief (Should) discovered that 65 per cent of followers are “sad with the possession and administration of the membership”.

Their frustration stems largely from a hike in ticket costs, out of the blue imposed final month when the membership introduced that members can be charged a flat £66 payment for tickets, and that concessions for youngsters and pensioners can be eliminated.

Ticket costs at Outdated Trafford beforehand began at £40 for grownup members and £25 for youngsters. The survey of greater than 4,000 followers additionally revealed that 97 per cent imagine the adjustments will “alienate the subsequent era of followers”.

Greater than two thirds mentioned they “will attend fewer video games, a technique or one other”, whereas solely three per cent have been “understanding” of the choice.

The value hike is a part of Ratcliffe’s plans to remodel the funds of the membership, with aggressive cost-cutting measures together with a raft of redundancies, having posted losses earlier than tax of web losses of £113.2m for the 12 months ending 30 June 2024, and £312.9m over the previous three seasons.

Nevertheless it has been met with anger among the many fanbase, with some protesting in opposition to Ratcliffe in the course of the current Premier League house recreation in opposition to Everton.

“The current hike in member ticket costs, notably for youngsters, is by far essentially the most unpopular choice the membership has made for the reason that partial possession change earlier this yr,” Should mentioned in a press release. “It has created a major rift with the fanbase and the membership should act urgently to restore the harm.”

Will need to have complained at a scarcity of session over the transfer. Manchester United initially emailed supporters to inform them concerning the ticket worth adjustments, saying: “As a membership, we now have been centered on price saving to place us on a stronger monetary footing. This implies having to make very laborious selections, together with a major discount in our employees numbers.

“It additionally means searching for alternatives to extend our revenues so we are able to proceed to put money into soccer and infrastructure. We’ve got now bought over 97 per cent of tickets this season, a lot of which have been at a reduced fee. We’re implementing some coverage adjustments for matches which have already bought out, the place solely small numbers of tickets might be launched.”