When Sir Jim Ratcliffe finally acquired a minority stake in the club in February, the Ineos billionaire was clear that he and his team wanted to review the Greenwood case with a fresh set of eyes and an open mind and assess all the different factors and considerations at play before making a final decision on the player’s future.
By the end of the season, they had resolved that it made the most sense to stick with the original plan to sell Greenwood and that any moves to bring him back would be too contentious and cause too much of a distraction at a time when they were trying to usher in a new era at Old Trafford.
It should be stressed here that Greenwood’s own family had been strongly of the view that it was better for their son to move away from United and cont…