Gary Neville felt Manchester United needed a takeover resolution by the end of May to avoid running the risk of scuppering the club's summer transfer plans.
We are now on July 3 and the saga shows no sign of ending any time soon. United are yet to officially finalise their first move in the transfer market, although they have agreed a fee with Chelsea for Mason Mount as well as personal terms with the player, while Manchester City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea have all made signings. United kick off their Premier League campaign on August 14 at home to Wolves.
And as well as the mind-numbing race between Sheikh Jassim Bin Hamad Al Thani and Sir Jim Ratcliffe, there are several other issues to be resolved off the pitch. While Mason Mount's imminent move to United is one positive, David De Gea's future at the club is currently unclear and there still seems a long way to go in Ten Hag's crucial search for a centre-forward.
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Earlier this year, former United defender Neville slammed the Glazer family's process, saying: "They are making it up as they go along! Shoddy way to run a sale process. They need to get out by end of May to allow the new owner a fighting chance to impact the next transfer window and get moving!"
And, as Neville highlighted prior to Christmas last year, the financial power of Man City and other Premier League heavyweights makes it paramount that United get their own house in order. As well as ownership and transfers, there are infrastructure problems which desperately need resolving.
On the Glazers, he said: "The cost of the transfer market nowadays – competing with [Manchester] City and the other clubs at the top – they haven’t got the money.
"They’ve obviously put the club into quite a bit of debt and they can’t extend that debt either. So it’s absolutely right, it needs to be a full sale. I think it will. It has been needed, this.
"It has been coming for the last six to eight months, because (of) the cash requirement that is needed to build, to rebuild this stadium, refurbish this stadium, whatever it is they decide to do."
