Manchester United fans had waited 17 years for a moment like this, so when the announcement came from the Glazers at 9.30pm on Tuesday that they were open to selling the club, they didn't want to hear that the process could still be a long one and that what comes next might also be unappealing.
Ever since this debt-laden takeover was first mooted United supporters wanted the Glazers out. Some walked away in 2005, more went after the European Super League fiasco, others have left when it's just become too much for them. Throughout it all, the sound of protests has never lingered far from the surface.
Those anti-Glazer sentiments were reignited after United's disastrous decision to sign up for the European Super League. The failure of that project in April 2021 may have sowed the seeds of this day. It certainly put a roadblock up to a guaranteed route to revenues and given their record at qualifying for the Champions League recently, United under the Glazer family needed that.
