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Matt Cooper: How Man Utd’s on-pitch travails could damage the club’s bottom line
Decay is setting in at the once-great Manchester United, with sponsorship deals slipping and a place in elite leagues no longer certain. But to stop the rot, any potential bidder for the club will have to fix more than the football
Even Elon Musk is making jokes at Manchester United’s expense these days. It took him four hours to withdraw his suggestion on Twitter that he was buying the club.
Notwithstanding Musk’s flakiness there would have been supporters interested in the possibility. Football club fans thrive on owners with pet projects on which they shower more money than commercial sense.
New ownership of the club is certainly possible. The Glazers, the commercial property family, holds a ...
