I think the fanbase abroad can vote with their money, pretty much as you have been doing. Local fanbase can organize protests, be vocal during games, and maybe boycott season tickets sales but not much more.
In the end the route to get the club back is:
1. Clear the debt. For that you need at least a 2 to 3 year plan where INEOS transfers as much money as they can from United to their other business, while the Glazers pay a proportion of the debt that keeps them being majority owners.
2. Once the debt is clear the club becomes attractive to the market again and it will likely attract new buyers. That's the chance for Glazers or Glazers/INEOS to sell and go home with a big fat paycheck. Considering the length of the process plus due diligences we're talking 1 to 2 years more.
3. Now that 1 and 2 are complete hopefully someone with both money and a vision of what to do control the club. That's the moment to start working in order to accomplish that vision. The first order of the day should be refurbishing or rebuilding Old Trafford, which would be one of the main profit generators of future United. This includes negotiations with the city, the government, the banks and financial institutions, and the sponsors (if you want to sell naming rights to the stadium, the field, the stands of the press rooms). A deal could take a year and the whole process could take 2 (for refurbishing) to 5 (for rebuilding) years.
4. Parallel to 1-3, the situation on the field and the squad needs to be assessed and for that a football person should be designated as a Director of Football, with a clear mandate to build the football structure that United will be playing 10 years from now and to reorient all football efforts in that direction. Hopefully this has to be someone that has done this before, hopefully (but not necessarily) in the Premier and ideally without the need of insane amounts of money (as most of it will be focused in points 1 to 3). I would be seriously looking at what the managers of teams like Villa, Brighton, Brentford and Forest have been doing lately.
5. For points 1 to 4 to be possible, decent performances in the Premier league (top half at least) at a relatively low cost will be needed. For that, revolutionary approaches to squad managing should be avoided. Caretaker managers or old, proven, winning-ugly managers should do the trick until the economics from 1-3 and the managing from 4 settle in.
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