Ratcliffe outlines plans to knock Man City & Liverpool 'off their perch'
Jim Ratcliffe has outlined his plans for Manchester United after his minority stake in the club was ratified
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00:00 I'd want to knock them all off their perch. I mean Alex was a very driven, very competitive
00:04 individual and he just wanted to win and that's the only reason we're there at United. I mean
00:09 we're friends in the sense that we're all in the North West but they are the enemies.
00:15 They're clearly our biggest rivals and competitors. In the UK and then obviously you've got two
00:19 or three clubs in Europe but no, no, absolutely. That's what we're there for, knocking them
00:25 off their perch. A long way behind them at the moment, yeah. No we aren't. That's why
00:29 I say it's not a light, it's not going to change tomorrow. People need, unfortunately,
00:36 to give us a little bit of time to get back to where we should be. What, next season?
00:40 No, it won't be next season. It'll be two to three seasons. I think that would be silly
00:45 to say that by next season we'll be at the same level as Manchester. I mean it took Pep
00:49 a few years to get to where he got to in Manchester City. He's not been there two seasons. So
00:54 it takes time and a bit of patience and we need to walk to the right solutions, not run
00:58 to the wrong solutions. So just spending money lavishly in the summer is not the answer.
01:03 It's a lot more complicated than that. So we need to get all those details right.