Richard Arnold's pub outing with Man Utd protestors: Twelve pints, pork scratchings and Frenkie de Jong – The Warm-Up

MONDAY’S BIG STORIES CEO IN THE PUB Ad/> Just a typical Saturday afternoon in your local. The usual, some crisps, and whatever those 12 Manchester United fans who had planned to protest on your driveway want to drink as well.

TransfersChelsea plan Sterling transfer ahead of Lukaku exit to Inter Milan — Paper RoundYESTERDAY AT 23:08 Richard Arnold, who succeeded Ed Woodward as United’s CEO earlier this year, took a novel approach to soothing some disgruntled supporters on the weekend, meeting them at a pub near his house to discuss a wide range of topics. It’s safe to predict Arnold may well have had a few frustrated messages from some fellow board members since, although his honesty has gone down well with some United fans.

“What’s happened is we have f***ing burned through cash,” Arnold was filmed saying. “You can’t go to our training ground and say ‘show me where the £1 billion is’ because we haven’t spent money well historically.” Adding: “Last year was a f***ing nightmare.

There was hate at every game.” /> In what could well go down as an accidental PR win for Arnold, given the candid manner of his responses — many of which were on the nose — the secretive manner in which he was filmed, with the footage then posted on social media, has divided a fanbase who have so desperately sought conservations with their board and owners down the years. “We're the first group of fans to sit down with an official at United in 17 years face to face,” Paul ‘Manc Bald and Bred’ said on Twitter, as one of the 12 to sit down with Arnold, although Paul ‘Man Bald and Bred’ has since faced a backlash from some who believe he has done more damage than the Twitter likes were worth.