The big decisions facing Jim Ratcliffe and Manchester United this summer

From signings to sales and the wider club management, Manchester United face some big decisions heading into the summer.

Minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is determined to take the 20-time league winners back to the top and, here, we had a look at the job in hand.

The club are struggling on the pitch and in a state of transition off it. Having bowed out of Europe before Christmas and now all but certain to miss out on Champions League qualification, the FA Cup final against Manchester City on May 25 offers United the chance to end a largely miserable campaign on a high. The temperature has naturally increased on Erik ten Hag’s hotseat during a poor season in which ambitious Ineos is having to consider how best to take the club forward. It has been looking under the hood since Ratcliffe struck a deal in December, then officially took control of football operations at United when the £1.3billion minority ownership deal was ratified by relevant parties in February.

Ineos is understood to feel fundamental changes are needed across the board to right a ship that has increasingly gone off course since the Glazers’ controversial leveraged takeover in 2005. Poaching Omar Berrada as chief executive from Manchester City was the first step on a journey to what United said was putting “football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do”. The move was announced in January and Berrada is due to start in mid-July, bringing much-needed leadership and clarity to a club where he will again work closely with Jason Wilcox. Another former high-ranking City employee, the 53-year-old this month left his role as Southampton’s director of football to become technical director at United. Wilcox will serve in a heightened