Former Manchester United football club player, Frenchman Eric Cantona, criticized the club's new owners because they ended cooperation with former coach and director Alex Ferguson, who was also an "ambassador" of that club, the French sports newspaper L'Equipe reported today.
Yesterday, Ferguson (82) was dismissed from the position of "global ambassador" and director of that club, which he held since 2013.
"Sir Alex Ferguson should do whatever he wants at the club for the rest of his life. What a lack of respect, it's completely scandalous," Cantona said, adding that he will always consider Ferguson the main boss.
Kantona said that because of this, he would "throw the new owners of the club in a big sack of feces".
He and Ferguson collaborated from 1992 to 1997.
The reason for Ferguson's dismissal is money: the media reported that his salary was more than 2.000.000 pounds a year, and the co-owner of Manchester United, the company Ineos, terminated the contract with him in order to reduce costs.
With Manchester United, whose coach he was from 1986 to 2013, Ferguson won the Premier League 13 times, the Champions League twice (1999, 2008), the FA Cup five times and the Club World Cup in 2008.
The chemical company Ineos, owned by billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, became a minority owner of Manchester United in February this year.
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