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Everything that you need to know ahead of Thursday’s match: (1) Manchester United travel to Villa Park for another game that, on paper, looks like a laugher.
(Photo by Pedro Fiúza/NurPhoto via Getty Images),Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change,left their first game at Old Trafford in police vans. "We need four or five games to get up to the standard we know we're capable of," the Manchester United boss said.Liverpool really did dispel any concerns of weakness with Sunday's 2-0 win at Chelsea. Purchase. This is their first collective look at the stadium they now own as a result of father Malcolm's successful 790million takeover. They are nicknamed the Red Devils and play their home matches at Old Trafford. It was relatively early in the upward trajectory of TV revenue, before the explosion of overseas ownership of English clubs.At the time of the takeover, Chelsea had been recently acquired by a mysterious Russian billionaire, but Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City all had English owners, within five years that none of them did.This spike demand for English soccer clubs means it now requires astronomical wealth to purchase a Championship club, let alone one in the Premier League or the most valuable club in the country.The cash required to buy United puts them out of most investor’s reach.Not that the fans want a rich overseas owner, according to O’Donnell.“We don’t just want anyone to come in and buy the [soccer] club.”,“The revenue the club makes is enough to run [it]. Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly set to do battle for the signature of Crystal Palace forward Alexander Sorloth.. They’ve never taken the time to do an interview in 15 or so years.”.It is not uncommon, few owners in the UK speak to the media consistently, particularly amongst the largest teams.The opinions of the likes of Manchester City’s Sheikh Mansour or Chelsea’s Roman Abramovich are rarely if ever, aired.If supporters are behind an owner that lack of communication is accepted, but when it comes from one they oppose, it only fuels the dissatisfaction more.The Glazers’ silence adds to the perception that they are “purely business.”.The lack of dialogue has been magnified by the club becoming, as O’Donnell says during our chat, “a corporate juggernaut” which draws more of revenue from South-East Asia than Salford.VALE DO LOBO, PORTUGAL - JULY 1: Tim Howard, John O'Shea, Wes Brown and Liam Miller of Manchester,When Malcolm Glazer completed the acquisition of Manchester United 15 years ago the club was valued at just under a.The exponential growth has been driven by substantial increases in two of United’s revenue streams; broadcast income and sponsorship deals.While the increases in TV revenue of nearly £4 billion ($5.06 billion) since 2005 have raised the income of all Premier League sides, the boom in commercial partnerships has been a Manchester United specialty.At the time of the takeover, the club’s commercial revenue.Since then a strategy of aligning the club with brands around the world has altered the revenue picture.Cash now pours in from commercial partnerships with global companies and far outstrips what Manchester United earns from fans at games.At its last financial results, sponsorship money amounted to more than double United’s matchday earnings at £275 million ($348 million).Commercial partnerships account for nearly half (44%) of all the cash the Red Devils make, even outstripping TV income (38%).The level of sponsorship revenue can only be matched by the likes Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, and is a distance ahead of domestic rivals like Liverpool and Manchester City.“What United do off the pitch business-wise, I can’t criticize,” adds O’Donnell.“They are maximizing the club’s commercial model, but at the same time they’re minimizing what the club can do on the pitch, for their benefit.”.The increased revenue has also resulted in hefty dividends, which benefit Manchester United’s majority shareholders the Glazers.What riles fans like O’Donnell is that, while United fight shoulder-to-shoulder with the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern Munich to monetize soccer’s global fanbase, the ownership of the Spanish and German sides is equally obsessed with winning the Champions League every year.That passion is less apparent at Old Trafford.Seasons without league titles prompt promises of squad enhancements from the presidents of these clubs.O’Donnell points out to me that, United’s transfers not only take a lot longer than their rivals, new player announcements are also made into marketing spectacles.This was epitomized by the announcement of Paul Pogba who was essentially revealed as a United player by kit manufacturer Adidas.He says it gives the sense that acquisition of talent is about boosting the bottom line as much as it about bolstering the team.“Liverpool won the league last year and, while I’m sure that hurt some of the players, the problem is that doesn’t hurt Manchester United’s board,” O’Donnell continues.“They don’t know that it hurts every single United fan that we haven’t won the league title in so many years and Liverpool just went and broke their 30-year duck, with a good team and a good manager.

We don’t need a sugar daddy, we don’t need a royal family coming in an attempt to ‘sports-wash.’,“We need someone who will let the club run and won’t need their big billionaire name all over it, but that’s hard to find. Transfer Talk has the latest.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted that Manchester United's summer transfer window has not gone as planned.Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said Manchester United specifically asked that Mason Greenwood be rested rather than called for England duty.Man United fans have been vocal about their club's lack of signings this summer and the club are getting frustrated.