After 15 years Manchester United want to restore the words 'Football Club' to their club badge and hope to dispel the image that its owners (Glazers) are not interested in money rather in the club's history as one of England's great sporting institutions.
Joel Glazer, the owner is behind the plans of changing the badge again after the mention of football got removed in 1998 re-design of the jersey. United's new chief executive, Ed Woodward has confirmed that the current badge was launched seven years ago before the club was bought by the Glazers.
"I didn't like that change of badge," said Woodward. "Joel didn't like that change. We will look at that and have a think about that. We are a football club, not a business."
"I described it to our staff that we are a 135-year-old club and that's what you have to remember. We are a football club, a club with a capital C.
"Strapped to that is a commericial business that's going to fund a lot of the player purchases going forward here and we have to be supportive of both. We've got to make sure they co-exist together but don't impact each other and that's where we are trying to balance it."
The club was criticised in 1998 for removing the words 'Football club' from their crest. Woodward speaks to Joel Glazer daily who is United's joint-chairman and one of the three brothers.
The Glazers have been criticised by certain sections of fans for putting the club in debt but Sir Alex Ferguson and David Moyes praised them for how they run the club and the support they extent to the managers.
Woodward also clarified that the owners have no intention of selling the club despite its valuation soaring beyond one billion dollars with interest shown from China and Qatar.
"They are long-term owners, together with our other shareholders," he said.
"They first bought the club eight years ago and there won't be any change for many, many years."
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