Who cares about Man Utd anyway I don't you were built by two Scots and as soon as Sir Alex goes your done for and you know it.
Yes probably but there's 2 points to be made here firstly we had 200,000 fans in your city more than you've ever had or have......2nd point only 2% of Man Utd fans have been to Old Trafford and i bet your in the majority.
Over the last couple of seasons, i believe it did. But the winter window was a record spend and it's already gone a bit nuts with the money paid for Henderson and Jones. City haven't even got started yet. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-January-2011-transfer-window-in-numbers.html
Bollocks But that is just the action of a few clubs, mainly Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea. In terms of spending per club transfer fees are well down on what they were five years ago.
Yip. That money quoted has, by and large, been spread around the premiership by these few clubs recently (as opposed to foreign deals). Be interesting to see whether the clubs receiving the cash (Newcastle, Villa etc) bank it or go spend it themselves.
Over a million lined the streets when we paraded the treble in 1999, so no. 2% of 300,000,000 (conservative estimate of Man United fans worldwide) would still be 6,000,000, which is none too shabby. And no, I'm not in the "majority" you speak of. I work within sight of OT, live 10 miles away and go a few times a season. But hasn't there been a wordlwide recession?
Define fan, please. Not having a go, I really don't know what that figure means, implies or how it is arrived at.
Yes, but 99% of the money comes from Sky so it shouldn't make any real difference to spending. Apart from the fact that Chairman are now starting to realise that spending huge amount on transfers and wages (especially wages!) is unsustainable and needs to be cut back. The same thing happened in Scotland and look at Celtic and Rangers now. Buying Championship players on the cheap and scouting markets in places like Mexico and Israel. And that is despite a report from Deloitte stating that Celtic and Rangers are better off in the SPL than they would be in the EPL due to the huge debts EPL clubs are burdened with.
Somebody who follows a certain team to the exclusion of all others? I don't know where the figure comes from, but I doubt PrestonBear (Scotland's so great but I live in England) knows where the 2% figure comes from either.
It's the word "follow" that troubles me here. I could claim to be a Barcelona or Real Madrid fan, but haven't been to a game in my life. How would i be an asset to either club? As far as they're concerned I might as well support Shrewesbury Town. Granted some worldwide "fans" buy shirts, but how much money do clubs like United really make from the so called lucrative Asian markets? How much does a replica shirt cost in Thailand? How many Thais, where the average national salary is only a few hundred quid a month, actually buy genuine United shirts?
But if Man United is your favourite team, they're the only team you want to win and you watch all the games and buy whatever merchandise you can, surely you could class yourself as a fan?
