In some horrible news today, I was awoken to hear of stories regarding new refinancing of the Manchester United debts, most notably the potential selling of Old Trafford, the Carrington training facility and even a major clearout of players, many of whom I really wouldn’t be too bothered in seeing the back of, those being Nani, Berbatov, Foster and more disappointingly, Anderson, Vidic and even Rooney.
The simple fact is that Manchester United are a club living outside of their means, we have no Russian billionaire to write off £300m of debt by way of a good will gesture, or a middle-eastern sheik who has more money than sense, no, instead we have some massively skint Americans who plunged the club into debt because they couldn’t afford us. I’m not entirely sure what they get out of the deal either. Of cours
On the bright side, we’ve actually won quite a lot over the last few seasons… It could be worse, we could have been Leeds United or Liverpool.
We’re in a similar financial situation to you lot you cheeky sod! Accept I think we’re not quite as bad but yes I do conceed we have won bugger all recently.
It’s definitely going to make the division alot more interesting if you do go into a financial melt down and be forced to sell players off. It would look as if Liverpool are heading in a similar direction.
Many have said that the other clubs cannot compete with the apparent Big 4 but things are now starting to change on that front. Whilst Spurs have spent big in the past they are well within their means and actually make a profit every season (mainly due to not having to finance any debt). Aston Villa have a billionaire chairman, but one who, along with his manager don’t need to splash millions all the time. Now those clubs who are living within their means may start to reap the benefits when those bigger clubs (even with the vast sums of Champions League cash they have experienced) start to falter.
It pains me to say it but Arsenal are probably the only one of the Big 4 who are in a decent financial position.