tolmie's hairdoo
Well-Known Member
Spot on Tolm. Even Matt Slater was saying in the Athletic just last week that United were well insulated as they had £90m cash in the bank. What he failed to realise was that they had that at the end of March, not now. So far this financial year they've burned through an average £75m net cash each of the three quarters and that's with revenue coming in.
They could easily consume another £100m+ net cash this final quarter to the end of June plus there'll be instalments on transfers to pay. Looking at their March financial statements, those transfer liabilities alone were about £90m in the current financial period. So that £140m isn't to pay for new transfers, it's for the fees of their existing players.
Remember the orchestra kept playing right to the end on the Titanic!
United's going down with a billion in the red.
China won't touch 'em, Saudis can't, Qatar can't, India won't.
I'd go as far as to say Venezuela is their only hope.