14 Jul 2014 13:15:39
United sign a deal with Adidas worth a minimum of 750 million over 10 years, 75 million a year! The rich get richer :-(

1.) 14 Jul 2014
About 2.5 times bigger than the previous record (Real Madrid) showing how FFP will balance the playing field.

2.) 14 Jul 2014
They need the extra money to overspend and waste on players like Fellaini & Shaw!

3.) 14 Jul 2014
To be fair, ManUtd have been a worldwide brand for decades - not just during SAF's tenure, but since the days of the Busby Babes (and their early European campaigns) and the marketing of their "star" players like Best and Charlton. As a club, they readily embraced European football - and televised games - while our club had a board of directors who were stuck in the mindset of the maximum wage, retain and transfer contracts for players, regarding fans as a captive audience of the great unwashed, absolutely minimum live (or any) televised football, and other antediluvian attitudes. Thank goodness that Sir John Moores came along in the early 1960s - not only to provide vital funding, but also some up-to-date thinking. Nowadays, of course, the so-called elite clubs are - with the apparent compliance (intended or otherwise) of FIFA, UEFA, the FA, etc. - making sure the big money stays within the big clubs and the rest feed on the crumbs. It's much more difficult for a club to break through - or be consistently successful - without massive investment.
Everton suffered more than most by the European ban on English clubs, but we had ample opportunity beforehand - and plenty of time since then - to establish ourselves. Thankfully, RM might get us close to getting some success.

4.) 14 Jul 2014
14 Jul 2014 16:56:03
Ffp is a load of bs anyway if u sign a player for 20 mil but he signs 5 yr deal they divide it over the years so actually instead of 20 mil on ya expenses at end of year it only counts as 4 mil what a waste of time it actually is.