Manchester United has announced its financial statements for the first quarter of the 1213 season (July to September). The data shows that with the continuous increase in commercial sponsorship income, Manchester United's total debt has dropped significantly to 359.7 million pounds. This is the acquisition of the Glazer family.
The lowest value since the acquisition of Manchester United in 2005.
According to "Sky Sports", during the same period last season, Manchester United's total debt reached 433.2 million pounds. One year later, Manchester United's total debt dropped by 17%. This is largely due to Manchester United's increase in commercial sponsorship income.
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In the new season, Manchester United signed new sponsorship contracts with 10 sponsors, including General Motors, bwin, and Toshiba. The profit from this part alone increased by 24.3%, from the previous 34.6 million pounds to 43 million pounds.
Since many international players were deployed to participate in this summer's European Cup, Manchester United also received 1.3 million pounds in compensation from UEFA. Old Trafford was requisitioned as a football match venue during the Olympics, and Manchester United received 2 million pounds.
The loan fee. In addition, the Glazer family also repaid bonds worth a total of 62.6 million pounds, which significantly reduced the total debt of Manchester United.
Manchester United vice president Woodward said: "Through commercial operations, Manchester United's revenue in the first quarter of the 2012-13 season set a new record, and we will continue to generate revenue globally, including in new media, mobile operations, retailers and sponsors.
On the other hand, our team has had a good start in the 201213 season, and now we are ranked first in both the Premier League and the Champions League group." According to the current revenue growth trend, Manchester United's turnover by the end of the 201213 season is expected to reach 350 to 360 million pounds.
Since buying Manchester United with a debt of 550 million pounds in 2005, the Glazer family has been resisted by some Manchester United fans, but the Americans' achievements in business development cannot be ignored.
An analyst named Andy Green said: "If all signing expenditures are stopped, Manchester United will take another five years to repay all debts."
However, according to The Sun, the reduction in Manchester United’s total debt actually conceals the fact that the Glazer family is making crazy money from Manchester United.
In August of this year, Manchester United was listed on the New York Stock Exchange, raising a total of 140 million pounds. 62.6 million pounds of it was used by the Glazer family to repay debts, but most of the remaining 77.4 million pounds, close to 80 million pounds, was used by the United States
People put it in their pockets themselves.
According to documents released by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Glazer also received 1,000 pounds in interest fees from Manchester United. In addition, more than six Glazer family members have strong financial ties with Manchester United. In the past two years, they have
Manchester United received more than £16 million in so-called consulting fees.
Simply adding up the three figures of 77.4 million, 10 million, and 16 million shows that the Glazer family robbed more than 103.4 million pounds from Manchester United.
In addition, the Glazer family has been unwilling to release all financial data after the club went public, often using words such as "stable growth" without data support to confuse the public. A report from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stated: "If it were not for the sale
Without the income earned by a player, Manchester United will face a larger deficit in the past two or three years."
The player mentioned in the report is none other than Cristiano Ronaldo. In 2009, Manchester United sold Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid for a high price of 80 million pounds. It seems that all the money was used by the Glazer family to cover financial losses.
) director Duncan Glasto said: "The name of the Glazer family is synonymous with poison among die-hard Manchester United fans. They have turned Manchester United into a debt repayment machine. When Manchester United is no longer successful on the pitch, that is
A big financial disaster."
Before the start of the league, it was rare to see the issue of Manchester United's debt. As Manchester United's record stabilizes this season, such news is rarely seen!
However, I don’t know if it was a bad omen, but another surprise occurred during the next Manchester United game.
In Manchester United's away game against Norwich today, Carrick made his 400th appearance in the Premier League. Unfortunately, the 0-1 result was destined to make Carrick's milestone day full of bitterness.
Compared with the traditional British midfielder who focuses on running and fighting ability, Carrick is definitely a "wonder". His playing style is closer to the European continental style. It is difficult to see him actively pressing or running to respond on a large scale.
Not to mention inserting themselves into the opponent's territory to attack.
Because of this, his role on the court is easily overlooked, and he is often called the "Invisible Emperor" by fans.
In offense, his role is actually more to sort out and control the rhythm of the game. In defense, although he is not known for pressing, he can better protect the penalty area and the two ribs. Playing for
Alonso of Real Madrid [Weibo] once said, "I really like watching Carrick play. He
He can make all his teammates around him play very comfortably, and his ability is really underestimated.” Old Redknapp also said, “Carrick was the best young player I ever led at West Ham.
!" Don't forget, there was also Chelsea's vice-captain Lampard in the West Ham United youth training group of Lao Lei.
Today against Norwich, Carrick made 112 passes, 99 of which were in place, and had a high success rate of 88.4%. This is completely Xavi-level data from Barcelona. Ferguson said at the beginning of the new season
Carrick is the key to Manchester United this season, and the playing time really proves this. In the 12 league games this season, Carrick is the only player of Manchester United who has played every minute of the game.
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But you must know that Carrick is also 31 years old. When Norwich launched a quick counterattack, even the iron man Carrick seemed a little unable to do what he wanted.
Although Carrick can connect Manchester United's midfield and backcourt well in every game, his contribution in the frontcourt is a drawback of his playing style, so his partner needs to have strong offensive organizational skills in the frontcourt.
Ancelotti has tried various combinations of central players and Pogba this season, but who is Carrick's "best partner" in Ancelotti's mind?
In today's game, when the score fell behind in the second half and the midfielder was still unable to control the ball possession rate and attack effectively, Anshuai asked Mata and Cleverley to warm up one after another, but the substitute who came on in the 69th minute was injured just the day before yesterday.
The healing Kagawa.
After the latter came on the field, he worked hard to organize and dispatch with his precise long and short passes. He even tried his best to chase back the defense of his own penalty area when the team was pressed and the opponent counterattacked. In the 90th minute, Carrick's long shot from outside the penalty area was blocked.
Blocked, Norwich went on a 2-on-2 fast break. The exhausted Carrick had given up on returning to defense. At this time, it was Kagawa who was trying to catch up with his life. It was Kagawa who was not good at defending. I don’t know how many people would be disappointed after seeing this scene.
People lamented endlessly.
Manchester United has a lot of midfielders. In this game, Mata, Cleverley and Fletcher all appeared on the bench. But at the last desperate moment, Anshuai unexpectedly sent Kagawa. This was a kind of confrontation.
The absolute trust of the veteran is also a kind of helplessness.
Mr. Carrick, who played 400 games, also had his own evaluation of a good partner, "Since the first day I came to the club, I have been learning from him all the time, but there are some things that only he can do, which is incredible."
They lost the 3 points they should have had in the away game, which also made Manchester United, who has been addicted to comebacks recently, go through a period of time when they no longer perform miracles.
However, at this moment, Chelsea is even more unlucky than Manchester United. It seems that this season's Premier League crown has said goodbye to the Blues!
Following Carlo Ancelotti and Villas-Boas, Di Matteo yesterday became the third Chelsea coach to be dismissed due to disagreements with the club's senior management over the use of Torres.
Since joining Stamford Bridge from Liverpool for a high fee of 50 million pounds in January 2011, Torres, who has performed mediocrely on the court, has turned his lethality on his own coach, dramatically prompting the doting Blues to
Army boss Abramovich completed the "hat trick of coaching changes".
As soon as the official news of Di Matteo's dismissal came out, major British media immediately conducted in-depth reports.
Among them, team reporters from two major newspapers, "The Sun" and "Daily Mail", unanimously disclosed that "the direct reason that caused Di Matteo to lose his job was his 0-3 away defeat to Juventus."
In the game [Bo], he disobeyed Abramovich’s orders and insisted on excluding Torres, who was in a sluggish state, from the starting lineup.”
Abramovich was very dissatisfied with this. The team only returned to London from Italy in the early morning of November 21, local time. Even before dawn, Chelsea Club hastily announced the official statement of Di Matteo's dismissal at 4 o'clock.
"Daily Mail" reporter Neil Aston, who has been covering Chelsea matches for a long time, wrote an article saying that the estrangement between Di Matteo and Torres has actually existed for a long time.
He recorded everything he saw in detail in the article: In the early days of taking over Villas-Boas last season, the coach arranged for Drogba and Torres to compete for the starting position of the Blues. In the end, the German coach
Drogba successfully won, but Torres was full of complaints - even at the Champions League award ceremony, he was frowning; and when Di Matteo was officially promoted this summer and Drogba switched to the Chinese Super League, he once put a signing plan
The book was submitted to head coach and boss Abramovich, and the top-ranked signing target was none other than Atletico Madrid striker Falcao, who is currently being pursued by major Premier League clubs.
Abramovich agreed to Di Matteo's other acquisition requests at the time, but refused to agree to pay for Falcao.
The Russian also sent a message to Di Matteo, "We already have a world-class scorer." The subtext of this message is very obvious, "Torres must be the first-choice striker in the 2012-13 season," even if Torres played for Chelsea in 1997.
A measly 19 goals were scored in each game.
The smart Di Matteo understood the boss's will very clearly. In the first 10 rounds of the Premier League and several rounds of the Champions League group matches of the new season, Torres got enough playing time, but his performance was still mediocre, and the team's results were also poor.
Therefore, they were dragged down. Last month's 2-3 home league defeat to Manchester United in the Tianwangshan battle also led to the conflict between the two being fully publicized.
Although the second yellow card Torres received was somewhat unjust, the Blues generals still had a heated argument after the game.
During the training session after arriving in Turin on Monday, some Chelsea players who had heard the news began to secretly talk about the rumors that the team might change their lineup. Sure enough, when the team had lunch at noon on Tuesday, Di Matteo got up.
The roster for that night's game was announced, with Hazard replacing Torres in the starting lineup for the "Old Lady".
It's a pity that Chelsea suffered a complete defeat in this contest with the Serie A champions, and their hopes of qualifying from the group were basically dashed.
Di Matteo, who had lost the last piece of chips, already had a premonition of his future. He did not leave the stadium immediately after the game. Instead, he discussed with his Italian agent in the player tunnel for half an hour;
After he returned to the locker room, he shook hands with each player affectionately, as if a farewell ceremony was taking place.
We don't know what Torres's expression was at that time. But on the way back to London, Torres ignored anyone and read a Spanish book called "Legend" alone. On November 21
After the bus that picked up the players from the airport arrived at Chelsea's training base in the early morning of that day, Torres was the first player to jump off the bus and pick up the car to go home.
Di Matteo was called into the office by club officials, and by the time he left, he was no longer the head coach of Chelsea Club.
On the same day, Benitez, the former Liverpool coach who had been idle for a long time, was appointed as the new head coach by Chelsea. In Torres's words, Benitez "is the most important coach in my career and the coach who understands me best."
The two Spanish legends who were loudly praised by the Kop at the Field Stadium dramatically gathered at Stamford Bridge at this time.
After Chelsea announced that Di Matteo was dismissed from get out of class, they immediately announced the appointment of Benitez a few hours later. In the eyes of many fans who hold "conspiracy theories", it was Chelsea owner Abramovich who had planned it long ago. . And choosing Benitez, who has coached Liverpool before and had troubles with Chelsea, to take over, how to get the support of the fans is also not an easy problem.
"The Sun" said that Benitez, who had just been announced as Chelsea's head coach, was being talked down before he even showed up.
The newspaper stated that given Benitez's failure in lineup rotation and purchasing strategy during his time at Liverpool, as well as his failure again during his time at Inter Milan, it concluded that his stay at Chelsea would "end in tears."
As another head coach of Chelsea under Roman Abramovich, Benitez once led Liverpool to win multiple honors known as the "Five Crowns" in 2005. However, due to his consistent insistence on a "funny" rotation system (which has been continuously
Changing the lineup in 99 games), and his ability to transfer without any discernment impressed Premier League fans. In terms of getting along with others, Benitez has also been generally questioned.
As Benitez's main center back when he coached Inter Milan, Italy international Materazzi said that he did not get along well with Benitez: "I didn't get along well with Benitez. He thought he knew everything, but he didn't get along well with Benitez."
He is afraid of his own shadow." Materazzi hinted that Benitez was jealous of Mourinho's achievements: "He asked me to tear up the pictures in my locker with Mourinho and Lippi.
Pictures documenting the most important moments of my career."
Real Madrid midfielder Alonso has been Liverpool's most successful foreign aid for many years. He believes that Benitez is lacking in team management skills and does not know how to communicate with players: "No matter when, every player likes those who communicate with the players.
A coach who is close to his players, but Benitez is not that kind of person. He once told me that he wanted to sign someone else to replace me, and if there was a new place, maybe I would be sold."
Chelsea's firing of Di Matteo was already questioned by fans, and inviting Benitez was even more intolerable to the fans.
"Daily Mirror" stated that thousands of Chelsea fans expressed their boycott of Benitez through the official website and Twitter, and Chelsea's official Twitter was even close to collapse. Dave Johnstone, editor of Chelsea Fan Magazine
He stated straightforwardly that the fans do not like Benitez: "
Benitez is not the head coach of Chelsea, he is not what we want. When Mourinho was in office, Benitez always looked down upon Chelsea and treated us very rudely. In Benitez's case,
No matter what went wrong, it was someone else's fault and he would put himself out of it."
It is reported that a large number of Blues fans have begun to threaten. They will tear up their season tickets and not go to the games after Benitez takes office. They also call Benitez a "fatspanishwaiter".
At the same time, Mourinho, the former head coach at Real Madrid, generously sent his blessings to Benitez. Mourinho said: "Everyone knows that I like the teams I have been in, Chelsea, Inter Milan and
Porto. I like these clubs so I hope they are managed well and I hope Benitez will do well."
Chelsea announced the dismissal of coach Di Matteo. The Blues thanked "Football Coach" for his contribution in a statement on their official website: "The owner and the board would like to thank Di Matteo for everything he has done since taking over in March. He has helped lead us.
Winning the historic Champions League and seventh FA Cup, we will never forget his contribution in making the club's history and Stamford Bridge will always welcome him."
These seemingly tender words cannot hide a bloody fact: no matter what you have done for Chelsea, in the eyes of Russian boss Abramovich, you will always be just a wage earner who can do as he pleases.
Di Matteo took office in March and took over the mess left by Villas-Boas. He miraculously led the team to win the FA Cup and Champions League, creating Chelsea history. But just over three months into the new season
, Xia Tian lost his job due to his meritorious service. When hearing this news, people couldn’t help but exclaim: This is too fast?!
Di Matteo is responsible for Chelsea's recent sluggish performance, but it is a well-known fact that the Blues are in a transitional period this season. A group of veterans have resigned and the team's style is also transforming. In such a period, it is actually very easy for performance to fluctuate.
Normally, if you replace him with any famous coach, I am afraid that you cannot guarantee that the team can continue to win despite a major change of lineup and style. But Abramovich does not care about this and kills the "Buddha coach" with outstanding achievements.
