Former captain Gary Neville described Manchester United's 3-0 defeat to Bournemouth at Old Trafford on Saturday afternoon as an 'abysmal result'.
Why Manchester United may not need to worry about Champions League ban for much longer
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As the current UEFA rules stand, Manchester United are at risk of being banned from European football should Sir Jim Ratcliffe join the boardroom.
The 'multi-club ownership' rule as quoted in Article 5 explains how two teams with the same owner cannot compete in the same European competition. What this means is if United and Nice are both owned by Ratcliffe, only one of these clubs could compete in the Champions League if they both happened to qualify.
Only one option is available for both teams to compete in Europe simultaneously and that is if United qualified directly for the group stages and Nice were to finish in the Europa Conference League spots, or vice-versa. While the prospect of no Champions League football already hangs over the Reds this season, the idea of no European football at all even if they qualify for the competition does not bear thinking about.
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However, in a bid to not only put United fans at ease but supporters of other clubs, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin hinted in March these rules could soon be scrapped. He told Gary Neville: "We are not thinking about Manchester United only.
"We’ve had five or six owners of clubs who want to buy another club. We have to see what to do. The options are that it stays like that or that we allow them to play in the same competition. I’m not sure yet.
"We have to speak about these regulations and see what to do about it. There is more and more interest in this multi-club ownership. We shouldn’t just say no for the investments for multi-club ownership, but we have to see what kind of rules we set in that case, because the rules have to be strict.
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