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Originally Posted by NewtonHeathFC
do you buy merchandise regularly ? do you at least go to OT on occasion ?
do you pay for MUTV ?
lets say you can buy something either from United or from another source, would you spend a few more quid and buy it from the club ?
ticket revenue comprises less than 30 percent of United's income. there's many more ways to contribute other than being a ST holder.
p.s
surely you didn't claim to care as much about your company as you do about United.
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Bit of a silly question asking people who follow the "not one penny" argument isnt it.
Me personally I dont spend ONE penny on Man United. No merchandise, no tickets, nothing... Which actually isnt that far away from what a large proportion of those 75 million spend..
Lets think about what you've said here.
Matchday revenue in 2005/6 was £71 million
Media receipts was £45 million
Commercial receipts was £48 million.
Making a grand sum of about £165 million.
Less than £3 million of that came from overseas. Thats an official figure given by United to say how much revenue is generated from overseas and not UK based.
Now we know for 100% certain there arent 75 million United fans in the UK, in fact you'd be hard pushed to get over 2 million United fans in the UK. So using a fairly generous estimate, you can safely say theres about 73 million United fans outside the UK ( if we're going to stick by your 75 million supporters argument ).
Those 73 million supporters spend on average £0.05 each on United per year...
FIVE FUCKING PENCE....
And you seriously expect me to believe if they withdraw their support United will collapse under the weight of the lost revenue. Dont make me fucking laugh. United spend more on Rios fucking wages than they get in each season from overseas fans.
The matchgoing fans are the ones keeping United afloat, with TV companies and prizemoney.. If you think that United is benefitting from having these 75 million fans all digging deep into their pockets then think again.