14 Dec 2025 20:31:58
Scary to think the club still owe, 1 Billion, hopefully behind the scenes they are getting this sorted. Plenty of great young players coming through and hopefully a new stadium in the pipeline.

1.) 14 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025 21:08:52
Absolute disgrace to still owe £1 billion and I don’t believe the stadium will happen in the next 10 years. Until the Glazers are totally gone and we have no debt I don’t see much progress.

2.) 14 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025 21:46:54
The glazers purchase of our club is the greatest con job, fleecing, daylight robbery, call it what you want! in modern football. There’s no way it would be allowed now, many financial commentators have said so. Just sad that after this long time the club is still severely hamstrung by them and their ownership.

Absolute scum the lot of them. If we didn’t have the name and history we could have gone bust a long time ago. Thankfully that and some clever commercial deal have kept us right, just really angers me and I’m sure many others.

3.) 15 Dec 2025
14 Dec 2025 23:07:42
Blackpool,

The club, like most businesses will always have debt, you’re never going to be happy if you think the club will be debt free any time soon. Without the sports washing bank roll it won’t happen. There has never been any suggestion that the club has ever been close to missing a payment on the debt, we can service it pretty easily, so it’s not worth worrying about. Also hearing now we are £1b in debt, we aren’t, we are $1b, so not that much more than we were before, doesn’t make a great story though.

4.) 15 Dec 2025
15 Dec 2025 05:58:35
It's scary to think we still owe 1bn on an initial loan of around 550m, after spending nearly 20 years and over 1bn in repayments.

I thought the Glazers were supposed to be savvy investors, but by the looks of it they bought the club with one of those dodgy payday loans.

5.) 15 Dec 2025
15 Dec 2025 10:41:38
After United went public the debt was down to £400m. Still high but manageable. The Glazers may be greedy and the LBO should never have been allowed, but the fact that total debt is now >£1bn is as a result of incompetent management since the company went public and not the initial loan. The Glazers main sin was appointing a non-football person to run the club and then failing to rectify the situation when it became clear that, beyond selling the club's image, he had no effing idea what he was doing. If, as a result of the money we've spent on transfers we had been winning trophies every season, most of us would not be complaining about the owners and their greed.

As far as being bad businessmen is concerned, the Glazers have already made £1bn + their dividends having invested virtually nothing. They still own nearly 70% of the club and, if I rumour is correct, they have been buying up land around the stadium and now own maybe 40 acres which will be ripe for development. If the stadium investment takes pace along with the rebuilding of the Trafford Park area they will cash in on a big scale.

43-50 years I used to work in a foundry and engineering business on a part of Trafford Park Road that no longer exists. The development around there since then, including of course the Salford Quays, has been incredible. I could not have imagined going back there and visiting the Lowry to see an art exhibition rather than an industrial wasteland. The Glazers may not know anything about how to run a football club - they now have Ineos and its appointees to do that for them - but as far as investing in property and using debt to their advantage they're no mugs.

6.) 15 Dec 2025
15 Dec 2025 13:17:59
As per my previous message the debt is not over £1b but the fact people think that shows they have got what they wanted from the story.

7.) 15 Dec 2025
15 Dec 2025 18:31:17
Total debt including monies owed to other clubs for transfers is over £1bn. Bank debt was something over £700m at the end of the first Q.