Of our own money, not the Glazers. And you can argue that the Glazers have improved sponsorship all you want, but that's not true either. The club is benefiting from an enhanced TV deal and our past successes under Sir Alex. The Glazers only started allowing the club to invest its own money into the team when we finished outside the top four. This year is another indication of how the Glazers intend to slow down spending on the first team to pocket the difference.
100% this. People act like the Glazers have done so much on the marketing side when football has naturally progressed that way anyway. Its not like the Glazers were the first to try any new form of sponsorship.
We were doing US Tours before they arrived and our commercial side was one of the best in the world in 2005. We only just got a sleeve sponsor this summer when it could have been done last season.
Why do so many fans try to defend them? They have ultimately ruined the club's chances of ever being elite again as once we get close, the manager isn't provided with transfer funds. Ferguson got them out of so much trouble. Ultimately the Premier League is being ruined by foreign owners. They should have put the same scheme in as the Bundesliga whereby fans own 51%.
UK fans will eventually turn away from the sport, maybe not yet. It won't be long until the Community Shield is moved to China, or we have 39 games, 1 in the US, or a Super league for the big clubs. This is what will happen in the next 10-20 years when these billionaires have so much influence.