“Naive and uninformed…” Man Utd fans furious after Tim Howard embarrasses himself with pathetic Glazer family claim

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Tim Howard has embarrassed himself with his latest comments on the club’s ownership.

American goalkeeper Tim Howard joined Manchester United in 2003 and departed three years later, and was at the club during the Glazer family takeover in 2005.

Whether or not he was aware of how they managed to get their hands on the biggest club in England is another story, especially after his latest comments on the subject.

United supporters were protesting against the Glazers when Howard was at the club and still do so in 2025. You will hear chants against them – and now co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe as well – at most Old Trafford fixtures.

Howard embarrasses himself with pathetic Glazer family claim

But Howard decided to defend his fellow countrymen in a segment released on beIN Sports this week, where he claims that the Glazers “have the right to run” United in any way they want because they “spent their billions” on the club – the first of several misinformed lies.

The 45-year-old said: “I think they’ve spent money for Manchester United in certain places and ultimately the criticism of ownership from fans is often times one-sided.

“The Glazers own a football club and that in turn is a business and what I’ve always said, when you when you spend your billions to own a business you have the right to run it in any way you want.

“I think they have spent, I think the Glazers are spending money, I think when you look at the squad and the amount of money that were paid for the likes of Sancho and Ronaldo and all these players, the money has been spent.

“Was it spent wisely? Well I’m not sure that the Glazers make those decisions, so there’s other parts of that question that need to be answered.”

🗣️ "The Glazers own the football club, and that in turn is a business. When you spend your billions to own a business, you have the right to run it in any way you want…"

Former @ManUtd goalkeeper Tim Howard on the Glazers ownership.

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— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS_EN) March 5, 2025

It is one thing seeing someone like ex-Liverpool player Graeme Souness blatantly lie about the ownership at Old Trafford, but it’s even worse when a former United player makes similar claims.

Perhaps someone should remind Howard that the Glazers did not spend their ‘billions’ to purchase the club in 2005. They bought the clubs through a highly leveraged buyout, something now banned in the Premier League.

Huge amounts of debt was placed onto the club and that has now grown to, in total, over £1 billion. They have no right to own the club, let alone run it how they please. Yet they do, despite such takeovers being impossible to make in England now.

Then seeing Howard dismiss the incompetence in the transfer market as being the Glazers’ fault. He might be forgetting that they hired the people – most notably Ed Woodward – to make those detrimental decisions.

United fans furious with Howard’s comments

United fans are understandably furious with the tone-death comments from the ex-goalkeeper, who has lost any small amounts of love he might have had by areas within the fanbase.

“Tim Howard must still be on the Glazers payroll to spout categorical lies like this. The Glazers have never put ONE PENNY of their own money into the club. Bought it on debt and have used Man Utd as a piggy bank since Get your facts straight before cameras roll,” one fan wrote on X.

Another posted: “They didn’t spend billions, they took out a loan to buy the club, then saddled that debt onto the club. Why are you interviewing a former goalkeeper about something he doesn’t have a clue on.”

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A third added: “Crazy how uneducated these people are on the situation they literally cover football for a living & don’t do the bare minimum & what makes it worse is he f*cking played at the club.”

“What a stupid, naive, uninformed comment to make. The Glazers didn’t spend a penny to buy the club and haven’t spent a single penny in the 20 years that they’ve ‘owned’ Manchester United. All they’ve done is bleed the club dry of dividends and let the facilities rot!” a fourth concluded.

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