Man Utd v Glazer Rumour

[manker]

You seem to have some major insight to which I am bereft. Why will Glazer sell the ground.

I have no idea whether he will or not, i was takin' teh piss out of Man U fans, hence the smilie.. come on, its not often we get the chance to; let us have our fun.

More seriously though, i hear they are seriously looking at the £30million offer on Rio... If they start selling the players so soon after all this, then the fans may take that as the new trend.

Hehe yeah, my humour is not so good about this subject atm, sorry about that


They're not selling Rio, he's in negotiations to sign a new contract so there would have been speculation anyway, probably caused by Pini Zahavi to get Rio's wages up () The takeover has perpetuated it.

However, as with all contract talk it could go tits up if Rio gets too greedy and he may well be on his way. This will be down to the player and not the club, tho' - they've offered him £100,000 a week already.

[Rat Faced]

So, in summary, things are pretty bad but it's not all doom and gloom. My own spirits have been lifted considerably this past week after talking to people that knew more about it that I do. We're still light years ahead of Newcastle and the Scousers. Which is a bonus.

We're the 11th richest club in the world. Soon to be tenth.

I thought we were, and you were 10th?

Your dropping quicker than us too (well, you were until this season )

Annual incomes 2003-04 (latest available from accounts i think)

1 (1) Man Utd £171.5m
2 (4) Real Madrid £156.3m
3 (3) AC Milan £147.2m
4 (10) Chelsea £143.7m
5 (2) Juventus £142.4m
6 (7) Arsenal £115m
7 (13) Barcelona £110.1m
8 (6) Inter Milan £110.3m
9 (5) Bayern Munich £110.1m
10 (8) Liverpool £92.3m
11 (10) Newcastle £90.5m
12 (11) Roma £72m
13 (18) Celtic £69m
14 (16) Tottenham £66.3m
15 (15) Lazio £65.8m
16 (-) Man City £61.9m
17 (14) Schalke £60.5m
18 (-) Marseille £58.3m
19 (-) Rangers £57.1m
20 (-) Aston Villa £55.9m

Shearer is 5th richest player in UK @ £42mil, thats nearly half of the clubs annual income

[manker]

RF, MCHeshPants420 is Withcheese


He's a Mackem too, I believe.

[manker]

Btw, annual income is a pretty poor way to decide which club is richest

[Rat Faced]

RF, MCHeshPants420 is Withcheese


He's a Mackem too, I believe.

No he isnt... he just supports a Geordie Team

I was under the impression he was a scouser... my bad.




/me wonders why people use fake names *sigh*

[Rat Faced]

Btw, annual income is a pretty poor way to decide which club is richest

Its certainly a bloody good indicator... You cant get the main fixed assets without the income, nor can you keep them.

[DanB]

/me wonders why people use fake names *sigh*

He really did die when he go to 10,000

[JPaul]

Celtic / Rangers certainly aren't in the richest list. The income list maybe, but not the richest list.

It's pretty meaningless when you include some clubs from Europe, which are part hobby. In fact look at Chelski now.

[manker]

Btw, annual income is a pretty poor way to decide which club is richest

Its certainly a bloody good indicator... You cant get the main fixed assets without the income, nor can you keep them.

If no-one watched Chelsea for the next ten years or bought any merchandise and they refused all prize money, making their income zero. They'd still be the richest club in the world.

Income pays no heed to how well managed or liquid the company is.

[Rat Faced]

In one sense they did have a huge income... what, with someone pumping huge wads of money into the club. They couldnt have done what they've done on their normal ticket sales, merchandising etc.

Its an indicator... but no, it doesnt account for the odd madman billionaire that wishes to give millions away to his club.

If i had a rich relative that wished to give me loads of money then i guess my salary would pale in comparison to my wealth... but this is not the normal situation in life, or in football.

To any volunteers that wish to give me loads of money..... notice i never said anything against that, please feel free to donate this way