Some of us give a shit, to be simplistic about it. About stuff in general too, not just United.
I've watched United slip into unethical behaviour more and more over the last few decades. Back when I bought my first replica shirt they were made predominantly by ladies in a factory in Cheshire. Then we signed up to Nike and they were made in countries where there were next to no labour laws, by people earning pennies, while they charged £50+ for them.
United "employ" hundreds of people on zero hour contracts while enjoying the status of being the world's most profitable club, paying feck all-in corporation taxes and basing themselves in the Cayman Islands so that even more money goes to the owners and none goes to HMRC.
Recently, it included these zero hour, zero-rights workers in its gender pay gap report, so that it skewed the figures to make them look progressive.
We recently signed a sponsorship deal with Uber, another company who share our tax-dodging, employee-shafting ways.
In terms of morals, it seems we're in a race to the bottom, and it doesn't sit well with me at all. A buy-out by an intollerant and brutal regime would be the final straw for many, I think.
As a club, we could actually try to take the lead and show the there's a better way to operate, in an ethical manner, fitting with the heritage of the city and making the most of our status as a brand leader. That kind of thing is much more important to me than how much we can spend on transfers . There's little chance of that happening with the leadership we have currently though, and zero if such a buy-out is to happen.
