Sir Alex Ferguson Calls For Unity

Sir Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Fer­guson has warned the Manchester United fans that he does not want the protest against the club own­ers to affect his play­ers. The Scot has called for unity as he fears that the ongo­ing cam­paign against Mal­com Glazer and the rest of his fam­ily could actu­ally wreck Manchester United’s bid for the Eng­lish Premier League title.

The Glazers first bought National Foot­ball League team Tampa Bay Buc­can­eers in 1995 and then they pur­chased Eng­lish Premier League club Manchester United in 2005. The Flor­ida based fam­ily were never wel­comed by the Manchester United fans, though, and they and came under heavy fire from the protest move­ment last cam­paign. Manchester United being the most prom­in­ent global brand in foot­ball, Mal­colm Glazer and his fam­ily have on a num­ber of occa­sions in the past main­tained that the Barclays Premier League club are not up for sale and that they will not be pres­sur­ised into selling. And although Sir Alex Fer­guson has always backed the own­ers, the long serving Manchester United Head Coach has pre­vi­ously defen­ded the Old Traf­ford sup­port­ers’ every right to protest. Sir Alex Fer­guson: “The debt has come through by Manchester United being bought out by an owner. You know full well that when a busi­ness is bought it is usu­ally bought with debt. But because it is a foot­ball club it seems to attract more neg­at­ive report­ing from the media and from the fan but Manchester United Foot­ball Club, when it went plc, it was always going to be bought. It was inev­it­able. So when a par­tic­u­lar fam­ily like the Glazers have bought it, it is unfair that they come in for cri­ti­cism because any­body could have bought it.”

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As much a world­wide brand as a soc­cer club, Manchester United’s debts have rock­eted since the deeply unpop­u­lar Mal­colm Glazer took full con­trol at Old Traf­ford in the sum­mer of 2005. Load­ing Manchester United with the bor­row­ings they made to buy the club in the first place, he has without doubt greatly offen­ded the sup­port­ers. The Red Dev­ils may very well be chas­ing a record break­ing 19th league title on the foot­ball field, but their fin­an­cial res­ults show that the legendary club are sink­ing deeper and deeper into debt. It remains a fact, how­ever, that Manchester United are still the num­ber one foot­ball club in the world on the For­bes Rich List des­pite the fin­an­cial dark clouds gath­er­ing over Salford.

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