By Ian Herbert 15 May 2015 We now know that there are beating hearts inside the silent, implacable Glazers and that there have been ways of winding them up during their 10 years of ownership at Manchester United, a milestone reached this week. Two ways, to be precise. Joel Glazer was infuriated by the national newspaper claim as the family […]

By Nick Harris 22 October 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST) has claimed this evening that Wayne Rooney’s new contract is evidence of the Glazer family caving in to fan pressure and protests at the US family’s ownership. A MUST spokesman said: “Like most supporters we are astonished but delighted by the news that […]

14 September 2010 The 2010 NFL season got underway in America at the weekend with a win for the owners of Manchester United (the Glazers) against the owner of Aston Villa (Randy Lerner) when the Glazers’ Tampa Bay Bucs beat Lerner’s Cleveland Browns 17-14 in Florida. But the game was played amid concerns about lack […]

By Keira Daley 4 August 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust (MUST), the driving force behind the Green & Gold campaign that hopes to bring about a fan-led takeover of the club, has launched a new billboard poster campaign ahead of United’s Community Shield game on Sunday against Chelsea at Wembley. MUST want the Glazer family to sell up […]

By Nick Harris 26 July 2010 Manchester United are hopeful they will sell most if not all of the 54,000  “ordinary” season tickets available for the 2010-11 season, having already broken the 50,000 barrier and with the first-come, first-serve sale ongoing of the remaining 4,000. Some opponents of the club’s American owners, the Glazer family, […]

By Nick Harris 7 June 2010 The Glazer family, owners of Manchester United, have net assets of slightly more than £1.1bn according to calculations based on figures cited today by anti-Glazer campaigners who have unearthed details of the family’s property-related debts in America. The Glazers now own only three major businesses: Manchester United in the […]

By Nick Harris 23 April 2010 The Manchester United Supporters Trust’s campaign to oust the club’s American owners will move into a new phase tomorrow when MUST will start targeting the club’s sponsors and commercial partners – including Nike, Audi, Budweiser and Betfair – to ask them to “choose sides” between the fans and the […]

By Nick Harris 24 March 2010 The Glazer family have frozen ticket prices at Old Trafford for next season, and it is understood that the aim of this strategic move is to ensure renewal levels are as healthy as possible.  Manchester United’s owners are known to harbour private concerns that renewals could have dipped drastically […]

11 January 2010 Manchester United’s holding company, Red Football Ltd, today announced pre-tax profits of £48.2m for the financial year to the end of June 2009, a year-on-year turnaround from comparable losses of £21.4m in the year to June 2008. The £80m sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid in the summer underpinned the latest […]

By Nick Harris 20 May 2015 Paris Saint-Germain are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2015, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published today. The average first-team pay at PSG has been calculated at £5.3m per year, or £101,8983 per week in the period under review. PSG have just completed […]