Shareholders United spokesman Oliver Huston said:
"It should be no surprise that Roman Abramovich is not only trawling the transfer market for players. Peter Kenyon's contribution to the success of Manchester United and to improving relations between fans and the board no doubt made him an attractive target. Shareholders United experienced a thawing of relations between supporters and the plc during his tenure, holding regular meetings with him and being represented on the fans' forum in which he was instrumental in setting up”.
"We hope his successor will continue this positive momentum towards greater shareholder participation. We can only speculate on the remuneration package Kenyon has been offered to give up managing one of the world's biggest football clubs to move to a club with very little international reach and profile.”
"It seems he was not quite as much of a United fan as he professed himself to be."
"Peter Kenyon always made great play of his loyalty to the club and his dyed-in-the-wool support for United. How sad that loyalty appears to have been so easily bought."