OK Gavinox Im In Here For Mr King Cantona.
AllRight M-A-N-K-E-R.
So you really want to know why we will never be like you and reading an excerpt from the Mirror Online there is no f------ing way we would want to be like you.
We think we have business problems with Hansel and Gretel?
Well.
We will probably get rid of them.
Just for you. Last day of the season. Have a read of this little tome...
(........Just as you finish your sentences.....)
From the Mirror.Co.Uk
You could do a lot worse than trying to make sense of Manchester United's yearly accounts (for the year leading up to June 2008) filed at London’s Company House .
Fortunately for anyone who doesn’t want to do this, I’ve done it for you. It was a dirty job, and it was me what had to do it.
The figures are dazzling, even blinding. Putting on my darkest sunglasses, this is the bit that sticks out.
Despite a turnover of more than £250 million, the aptly named Red Devils incurred an operating loss of more than £26 million (after tax).
This means that even in a year when the club won both the Premier League title and the Champions League – as well as progressing to the quarter finals of the FA Cup – they STILL couldn’t make any money !
The organisation’s debts stand at almost £700 million!
It seems dazzling to say this, but the so called world’s best football team, (sic) a side so good they play to packed stadia wherever they roam, provide a lousy business model for how to run a company.
This, surely, is quite some carry-on.
My favourite part of the report, though, comes when the group’s board of directors – whose eight members include more than six with the surname Glazer – claim that their stated aims are to ‘[Treat] fans as customers.’
Customers, eh? Now that’s a novel approach. I wonder what other ways the club could have thought to treat those who pay to watch the team play?
Animals, perhaps?
Dupes and idiots?
Prisoners?
Actually that last one isn’t that wide of the mark.
Money men in the safe-as-doll-houses world of the financial markets have a phrase to describe those of us who pay money to watch football.
That phrase is ‘captive market.’
Captive, as in not being free. YOU might call it loyalty, but THEY certainly do not.
The notion that the club might start ‘treating fans as customers’ will surprise some Manchester United fans, especially the ones who have lodged an official complaint about the club with the Office Of Fair Trading.
These fans allege that even though they are season ticket holders they can not get tickets for key games, such as last season’s Champions League semi final home leg against FC Barcelona.
The question seems to be this: where is this all going to end?
If MUFCPLC can’t make money in a season as successful as the last campaign then when will they make money?
And how will they make it?
Well, they’ll try to do it by squeezing the fans – the same fans that are described as being ‘captive’.
If you are a regular at Old Trafford and you are currently feeling the pinch of a recession then chances are you’ll soon be feeling it that little bit more.
Probably any day now, when you have to fork out for a new season ticket.
Be warned: the club you love will completely take the piss out of you.
Why?
Because it thinks that it must and believes that it can.
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So there you go K.C.
Be like you.
Never. Dream On.
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