Written on Thursday, May 17, 2012 by Guest Writer in Glazers, News, Ownership, Rant
For anyone who’s followed the Glazers reign at the club and United’s financial results over the years, you’ll know some of the shocking figures they have created. Most of what is about to looked at can also be found on Andy Green’s blog. The money spent on interest and buying back debt is more shocking than…
Written on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 by Guest Writer in Glazers, Ownership
If you’ve read the Manchester Evening News or the BBC headlines today everything sounds great, maybe apart from the lack of Champions League revenue for next year is the only negative they’ve written but lets be honest its not only negative. The Guardian for me have written a much more realistic story but everyone can…
Written on Monday, June 6, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News
This is part two of Stretty News’ review of the United season. Part One can be found here. Wayne Rooney was back in the fold after a brief flirtation with alternative career options but the goals didn’t come immediately. United fans, who had been put through the wringer by the Scouser’s shenanigans, were unhappy not…
Manchester United are still on course to become the first football club to break through the £100 million preventive for annual commercial turnover. The reds posted their third quarter figures earlier this morning, which show commercial revenue increased to £75.3 million, up 33pc compared to last year, 2010. The increase helps outweigh the £5 million…
Written on Friday, April 15, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in News
When the groundsmen at Old Trafford began their shift after full-time Tuesday night, a numerous amount of them entered the old scoreboard end and took up some of the white seats replacing them with red ones. Those white seats made up Nike’s famous swoosh logo as they are one of United’s many sponsors. After receiving…
Written on Saturday, February 26, 2011 by Dale O'Donnell in Ownership
Just a few hours after we told you about the royal family of Qatar eying a £1.5 billion bid for Manchester United, now the Glazers have confirmed their commitment to Manchester United as expected and made it clear that they have no interest in selling the club. The Glazer family made a statement earlier, in…
Speculation about Patrice’s future is spreading like an uncomfortable dose of French pox. Has he fallen into bed with Mourinho and the Madrid orgy or slapped on a prophylactic and signed a new four-year contract.
Again… Manchester United have insisted the club is not for sale after reports suggested the Glazers were about to sell it to Qatar Holding, who didn’t know anything about a supposed deal reported to be worth £1.5 billion. Qatar Holding, an indirect subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority is run by Sheik Hamad bin Jassem bin…
Written on Friday, September 17, 2010 by Dale O'Donnell in News
The Glazers, according to reports have bought back around 20% of the high-interest loan owed by the company they used to take control of our football club, Manchester United. According to Bloomberg, the US-based family bought part of the Payment-in-kind loan issued by the company after the fave value price fell during the global recession…
Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has set his sights on managing Manchester United or Wales when he decides to retire. I don’t think the Welsh job is the best around but every manager has to start some where. I’m sure playing under Sir Alex Ferguson all these years, Giggs must of took in some of…
Stretty News – Manchester United blog was launched in the summer of 2010; on the back of coming second in the league just a point behind Chelsea. As you can imagine, we had a lot to say at the time but don’t get us wrong, we still do. Read more..
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