David Beckham reveals what he thinks about Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe

Ratcliffe’s INEOS took implicit the club’s shot operations successful February but aft past season’s FA Cup occurrence it has been different hard commencement to this campaign.

Pressure has grown connected manager Erik 10 Hag with United languishing successful 14th spot successful the Premier League aft 7 games and 2 winless Europa League fixtures.

But Beckham - who won six Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups and the Champions League during his clip astatine Old Trafford - has urged United fans to beryllium diligent with Ratcliffe and his team.

“I deliberation that it decidedly needed change," Beckham said connected the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. "I think, speaking arsenic a United fan, I deliberation that galore radical had said that the nine needed alteration and it needed a caller position successful however this nine needs to beryllium tally and the decisions that are made.

“I truly similar Jim. I've met him a fewer times implicit the years with a fewer communal friends and I deliberation that he's a instrumentality and evidently he's a large businessman arsenic well, 1 of the champion and 1 of the biggest.

"But I deliberation much importantly the fans spot that helium cares, and I deliberation that's a large portion of it. I deliberation evidently the fans had mislaid religion with the enactment implicit the years and evidently helium truly cares astir what helium wants to bash and what helium wants to create.

"So, hopefully, things volition alteration but these things instrumentality time. I deliberation we person been rather diligent arsenic United fans implicit the years but we privation those bully aged days back. We privation those days backmost and the sooner the better."

Beckham knows each astir moving a shot nine himself, having been president of Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise Inter Miami since it was founded successful 2018.

Inter Miami person signed Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba nether his stewardship and this play won the MLS Supporters’ Shield - awarded to the squad with the champion regular play record.

The Miami outfit are present targeting their archetypal title erstwhile the play-offs commencement aboriginal this period and Beckham said helium went to his aged United manager Sir Alex Ferguson for proposal erstwhile founding the club.

"I went to him erstwhile and said to him, 'I'm starting this team, however would you tally it?'," Beckham said. "And helium sat maine down for a mates of hours and helium told maine what I should bash and what players I should beryllium looking for and however I should tally the academy.

"And that's truly what I've tried to do. And past I besides learnt from radical similar (Real Madrid president) Florentino Perez. You know, with Florentino, helium has this brainsick imaginativeness of ever bringing the top players to the nine and gathering this unbelievable stadium."