The controversy of Wayne Rooney‘s contract negotiations could not have seen the striker’s stock fall further with Manchester United fans. Many players over the years have used unsavoury tactics to negotiate an improved contract, but to question the ambition of one of the biggest clubs in the world was an unmitigated disaster as far as [...]
When the story of the bond issue broke in January, Manchester United Supporters Trust membership stood at around a paltry 30,000. That number had almost doubled in the two months following because of the repercussions of the financial details released. Yesterday morning the figure stood at 54,000. Following a huge push by Manchester United fans [...]
The elusive Red Knights convened in London yesterday to discuss their proposed takeover of Manchester United. Deal broker Keith Harris, chairman of investment bankers Seymour Pierce, and Jim O’Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs are known to be two of the men involved in the bid, and Duncan Drasdo, Chief Executive of MUST appeared on [...]
Patrice Evra has become the first Manchester United player to back the fans protests against the Glazer regime. The French left back spoke after he Carling Cup final win against Aston Villa, and while he didn’t mention Glazer directly, he hinted that he is aware of the fans concerns regarding the current owners and acknowledges [...]
The Glazer regime has long been a subject of anger for many Manchester United fans. Others were of the ‘wait and see’ persuasion, while some were just plain ignorant of what was going on. What’s clear now though is that there is a growing army of Manchester United fans who have woken up and realized [...]
The anti Glazer feeling was at fever pitch yesterday as Manchester United took on Portsmouth on the 52nd anniversary of the Munich air disaster. On the pitch, United thrashed the hapless strugglers 5-0, but it was in the stands where the fans did us proud. For the entire 90 minutes chants of “LOVE UNITED HATE [...]
The Glazer family, who own Manchester United, are capitalizing on the recent fans protests by selling retro United shirts in green and gold. Fans have been protesting against the Glazer’s and the huge debt burden they have placed on the club, by wearing green and gold instead of the traditional red. The colours represent the [...]
Bookmaker Fred Done has revealed himself to be one of the “Red Knights” aiming to takeover Manchester United. Fred, a lifelong United fan, is the first of an alleged 50 investors keen to take the football club away from the Glazer family, who have burdened the club with huge debts. He was approached by fixer [...]
Manchester United’s success on the pitch is not encouraging traders to buy the bonds they sold two weeks ago. They successfully raised £500 million to refinance the serve debt burden on the club. 250 million in pounds and 425 million in dollars.The former are now selling at 93% of their initial value, whereas the latter [...]
David Gill was accused by fans of blatant lies today, after his interview with BBC radio Five Live this morning. The Manchester United chief Executive was asked what he thought about the ongoing protests at Old Trafford and said he had no problem with them. “Protests are fine, it is a free society,” he told [...]
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