United nearly made 10mil on the Keane and Drinkwater transfers from this past summer. www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11129018/manchester-united-made-nearly-10m-from-danny-drinkwater-and-michael-keanes-summer-moves
Could be "better" or "worse": https://medium.com/@NcGeehan/the-me...coming-soon-to-a-cinema-near-you-14bc8e393e06
United are still the club who generates the most revenue in world football. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-utd-deloitte-money-league-14189370 Close to £600mil: great job from Woodward. Improving by the year in terms of the football side of things, but business wise, this guy is just so incredibly good in terms of running this club.
Alexis is only expensive if you can't afford him 😉 pic.twitter.com/aYM6iY7ViW— B/R Football (@brfootball) January 23, 2018
United are showing a £29mil loss in the final months of 2017. www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/11241297/manchester-uniteds-accounts-show-29m-loss-in-last-three-months-of-2017
United to meet their financial target as revenue is up by 8%. www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/11375886/manchester-united-revenue-up-eight-per-cent-with-club-on-course-to-hit-annual-targets
I read today that we made more money from PL this year than city. I guess it's the brand value. Not sure how long this will sustain though unless we start playing better
The real bottom line and what really furthers any club's brand are results, winning. Trophy haul is what really ultimately matters, not how the team plays. It's a by product, an added bonus that make things more enjoyable if we get it. It does not transcend results from a financial point of view.
Probably along time Woody pretty much said that the brand pretty much sells it self and that (potential) sponsors aren’t concerned with form.
you are correct about title haul.But you can't ignore the fact that the way we play would ultimately affect viewership. i myself have started skipping live matches and view only highlights,
2017/18 Payments to Premier League club’s: 💷West Brom got £94M for finishing last. 😱 pic.twitter.com/Xmuo96ZMRl— Football Tweet ⚽ (@Football__Tweet) May 18, 2018
Sincerely, what's the point in supporting a team then? Wouldn't you enjoy the sport more as a neutral, selecting the games you watch based on the clubs' style of play?
Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to say that i will stop supporting united because our playing style not good now. I am attached to this club and don;t see myself supporting any other club in this lifetime. But i also don't deny that lately our football has become a little boring or less fun.
No one is denying that for the past 5yrs (and going on 10 if we're really being honest) that the style of football played at the club has been less than what we've wanted, in varying degrees. And there's no question that we still have some work to do on that score, but the original argument was about the club as a brand and what can ultimately affect it. And I don't think it can be argued that the lack of trophies/not winning, will hurt the club more and far sooner than not playing entertaining football. As I said, we have to go back to 2010 to see us play in a manner that was very pleasing. We didn't gripe much about the style for 5yrs, because we were still winning. And SAF while being a legend, with his place firmly entrenched at the club, kept his job partly because the club was still winning, even if the football had noticeably gone down in quality. Success is still what affects the bottom line first and foremost, not the style of play necessarily.
Noted. And to be clear, that wasn't an attack. I just have a different mindset. For me, support is about riding the roller coaster. It's the peaks and troughs that make the highs so meaningful. I've read a number of times on this forum that people aren't watching our games for various reasons. That's not something that would have occurred to me as an option previously.
I think this is truer of a different era e.g. when I was a lad, Canterbury Rugby went thru very hard times and Auckland won like 8 titles straight. It was just assumed because Auckland had 1m people, that we'd never compete again. But you watched anyway thru those simply horrible games because that is all there really was to watch. NZ cricket was the same. So many terrible experiences of watching mediocrity. IMO the difference now is I just don't have to watch bad content, because my options to watch are vastly expanded.
Manchester United have agreed a multi-million pound sleeve sponsorship deal with American kitchen and bathroom manufacturer Kohler. The deal is worth £10m-a-season. (Source: GOAL) pic.twitter.com/YmopX5vrpB— Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) June 6, 2018
Manchester United has been named the most valuable club in football by Forbes. www.bleacherreport.com/articles/2780887-manchester-united-named-most-valuable-football-club-by-forbes
United are the 2nd most valuable sports team after the Dallas Cowboys. www.bleacherreport.com/articles/2786676-cowboys-manchester-united-top-2018-forbes-list-of-most-valuable-sports-teams Further proof that from a business point of view, the club is run expertly and practically flawlessly. But also, it will be nice when our success on the field matches our commercial success...
Most poignantly of all, given the original birth of this series of threads, it's proof that the furor over the Glazers was indeed premature and grossly OTT.
Somehow after this transfer window we seem like a big club in name only. What is the point of being valued as one of the biggest if it is not reflected in the value of the squad.
We're getting really close to being what Liverpool was 5 years ago...a team who's culture and fans are hung up on previous successes to distract them from the reality that they're no longer one of the best clubs in the world.