Sir Jim Ratcliffe wanted ‘City-fication’. The hard truth is Manchester United are still adrift

“It is coming up to two years since Sir Jim Ratcliffe got his hands on a piece of Manchester United and set about his mission to restore the club to ‘the top of the game’. It would not be a quick fix, the petrochemicals billionaire said, given the sense of decline and drift that had taken hold over the previous decade. It wasn’t a case of flicking a switch or waving a magic wand. ‘We have to walk to the right solution,’ he told the BBC, ‘not run to the wrong one.’ Ratcliffe made no apologies for...