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United’s Commercial Director and Glazer toady Andy Anson has seemingly failed to deliver a shirt sponsor for next season.
FC United decided on principle last week not to have a sponsor on the club shirts and United may well follow suit through a mixture of Anson’s incompetence and the commercial world’s reluctance to pay over the odds for the privilege of sponsoring United’s uncertain future.
A lucrative shirt sponsorship deal would go a long way to easing the Glazer’s debt worries and Anson has cockily predicted that he has a host of companies lining up to take the place of Vodafone but with time fast running out a new sponsor has yet to be found.
From The Independent:
‘Don't bet your shirt on Man Utd finding a sponsor for next season
Already massively indebted, Manchester United faces the prospect of starting next season without a shirt sponsor.
Football clubs have a tight timetable when negotiating with sponsors, usually needing to agree a deal by the end of March at the latest to give kit firms time to produce the replica strips.
"If you are West Brom, you don't have to produce as many shirts as Man Utd," said one industry expert. "There's more pressure for them and the end of March is pretty tight. The number of people that wear their shirts is just huge compared to everyone else."
A shirt sponsor is usually a club's most lucrative commercial deal. Chelsea recently signed an £11m-a-year contract with Samsung, while Arsenal's deal with Emirates, which includes naming the club's new stadium after the airline, is understood to be worth a total of £100m.
But it is understood that the club is prepared, if necessary, for its players' shirts to be logo-free. "The team will go out without any sponsor if the right deal cannot be found," said a source close to Man Utd.
"It's about building a strong relationship. If they don't find a suitable sponsor, they don't find a suitable sponsor."
A Glazer family spokesman said they were "confident of a positive outcome".
"Manchester United are actively searching for a new shirt-sponsor deal and an announcement will be made when that's in place," he said. "But there's no issue about timing. The only imperative is that we get the right sponsorship partner."’
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FC United decided on principle last week not to have a sponsor on the club shirts and United may well follow suit through a mixture of Anson’s incompetence and the commercial world’s reluctance to pay over the odds for the privilege of sponsoring United’s uncertain future.
A lucrative shirt sponsorship deal would go a long way to easing the Glazer’s debt worries and Anson has cockily predicted that he has a host of companies lining up to take the place of Vodafone but with time fast running out a new sponsor has yet to be found.
From The Independent:
‘Don't bet your shirt on Man Utd finding a sponsor for next season
Already massively indebted, Manchester United faces the prospect of starting next season without a shirt sponsor.
Football clubs have a tight timetable when negotiating with sponsors, usually needing to agree a deal by the end of March at the latest to give kit firms time to produce the replica strips.
"If you are West Brom, you don't have to produce as many shirts as Man Utd," said one industry expert. "There's more pressure for them and the end of March is pretty tight. The number of people that wear their shirts is just huge compared to everyone else."
A shirt sponsor is usually a club's most lucrative commercial deal. Chelsea recently signed an £11m-a-year contract with Samsung, while Arsenal's deal with Emirates, which includes naming the club's new stadium after the airline, is understood to be worth a total of £100m.
But it is understood that the club is prepared, if necessary, for its players' shirts to be logo-free. "The team will go out without any sponsor if the right deal cannot be found," said a source close to Man Utd.
"It's about building a strong relationship. If they don't find a suitable sponsor, they don't find a suitable sponsor."
A Glazer family spokesman said they were "confident of a positive outcome".
"Manchester United are actively searching for a new shirt-sponsor deal and an announcement will be made when that's in place," he said. "But there's no issue about timing. The only imperative is that we get the right sponsorship partner."’
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Barcelona manage fine without one.
I hope they don't get anyone, the only way forward is for Glazer and United to bankrupt so somebody can come in and give the club back to whom it belongs. Long shot though.
I'll never support them.
Bollocks.
When you know your club's owners have an agenda of milking the cash cow till its dry, and they don't even pretend to hide it, the last thing you do is sit on your hands and keep handing over the readies.
The problem is that Man United's anger is misplaced in being directed towards Glazer. The cash cow was sold off piece by piece twenty years ago, the man ManUtd fans should be abusing is Martin Edwards. Edwards is certainly the reason everyone else hates the club.
Football clubs should be for the fans, and in the Premiershit the simple fact is that few of them are. the ones that are, like Boro, are because the chairman is a fan not a suit.
It started by floating the club on the stock exchange, needed the money to re-develop United Rd/north stand so we did gain in some ways. Edwards has walked off into the sunset with his millions now, but I would rather he was in charge than this lot.
Football clubs should be for the fans but I feel thats gone forever.
Your suggesting I should just forget about it, 130 years of history isn't easily forgotten.
What the fuck? The clubs now around £400m in debt, they're struggling to sell the new exec boxes, last week they knocked £50k off the asking price. They don't have a clue what they're doing.
Yes some of us were actually, we could see this happening. The old powers were always trying to fuck us off one way or another.
So their experimenting with new exec boxes?? trying to raise money to not only take away some of the debt but to also pump money into the squad. Fair enough it hasn't worked out as they planned but things don't always go to plan in business, I know that at least.
They seem to run the American Football club successfully, this is their adventure into Premier football with one of the biggest clubs in the country, only time will tell but am certain they will be trying their hardest to make this a successfull adventure, not only in terms of money but in terms of success on the field.
Lets say the next ten years Man U won numerous premiership titles, a few FA cups, few Carling Cups and maybe even sneak in with another Champions League winners medal. Would you still be complaining???
Winning things isn't the problem, the Glazers don't have a clue about football, when next seasons ticket prices are announced on 10th Arpril I suspect that myself and others will be priced out of watching OUR team. This will pave the way to pack a few more daytrippers into OT to go spend money on the vast range of shite available in the megastore (thats the idea anyway). Its a complete disaster for United, when are the people with power in football going to realise that fucking your hardcore support off is a very bad idea. Glory hunters don't hang around when your not winning, there have been empty seats at OT for nearly every game this season.
They are going to run United into the ground, cunts.
It is in the interest of everyone, not just United supporters, that such types are forced out and made unwelcome at any football club.
The more I look at the current state of affairs the happier I am I support a non-league club.
Different situation I know but if by putting the ticket prices up it helps the club build a squad of players that can do things then I personally wouldn't complain. I know this shouldn't be the case with Man U though cos they should be a very rich club and now they aren't so I can see why your pissed off if you can't afford to re-new your season ticket.
But Manchester United has been run as a commercial enterprise for twenty years now, its not something that the bogeyman Glazer has instigated. Edwards is where the real problem is- he's got his money from selling the family silver, he's happy, fuck the club and fuck the fans.
Glazer isn't "bad news for football"- the spate of floatations on the stock exchange is what has done the damage. The clubs that have maintained some link to their roots- Arsenal, Liverpool, Middlesbrough- are the ones that have never been listed.
Glazer is bad news for football, its a sign that the game as we knew it has gone forever.
Those of you who sat back and enjoyed football becoming commercial, more women and kids at matches etc enjoy paying over the odds prices for tickets and what you laughingly call atmosphere. Every time I go to a game its getting more and more like a Baseball match, so much so I've started to think I'd rather watch in the pub where I'm not a minority.
Kermit, Edwards has been a hate figure for United fans for years, we knew he was only intrested in lining his own pocket and he does take a large portion of the blame.
Pheh, they're better than a lot of clubs. At least they're privately owned, and not milking the cash cow excessively. Their neighbours at White Hart Lane are much worse.
ManYoo wouldn't still be at OT if there was no room to build a 75,000 seater stadium.
Nowt wrong with women and kids at matches. I'd rather be sat next to a woman than a 1980s hooligan.
The problem is they can't afford to come either. The biggest problem with atmosphere is the removal of standing areas- utterly ludicrous.
Don't kid yourself, they don't have the fanbase, if they could they would. Ticket prices for their new stadium are going to be he most expensive in the country, according to rumours.
I think its all part of the same problem.
Remember the days when 90% of kick offs (if not 100%) were at 3pm on a Saturday?
If there are 6 Premiership games starting at 3pm Saturday- or on a Saturday at all- nowadays you can count yourself lucky.
The Premiershit has destroyed the Football League, along with their chums at ITV- no, I haven't forgotten how much you love football, Carlton.
I think the wheels are creaking, they'll be falling off soon.
For once however UEFA are showing a bit of backbone and have said if the G14 go ahead they will be kicked from all UEFA-regulated competitions, including their national leagues.
Even as an (increasingly desinterested) Real Madrid fan I wish the G14 would fuck off and take all the prawn sandwich hoardes with them. I think every single league in Europe would benefit from those clubs' departure.
I dopn't like the Glazers, I don't like the way they funded the purchase and I don't like the fact that they won.
But they did and the fans can only work with the hand we have been dealt. We can either support the club until the Glazers move on, or watch it die.
130 years of history. As far as I am concerned that is more important than hating some yank.
I agree wih this. But as MoK has said the history of the cub should be more important than hating the person in charge.
Owners will probably come and go, but the club will probably always exist. I'm not going to jump ship everytime a new owner comes along who I don't like.
All aside, the Glazers haven't crippled the club so far like so many had feared (hoped) so I'm not concerned at present. In some ways it's better having the yanks in charge as opposed to a sugar daddy, because at least any success that we may have will be that bit more credible.
Its just I don't like the way footballs going and I don't like my club being a rich mans toy.
On the subject of prices, Chelsea away? £80 ffs