diarm
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Agree with all except the CEO bit. We need to make money from sponsorships etc to compete with City. I’d go further in terms of dividends though and ask for percentage of shares to be sold to fan groups with the money invested in paying off the debt. The best case scenario for me is legislative reform and the glazers coming to the negotiating table.
Having a football first CEO does not negate our ability to make money from sponsorships, it merely ensures that making money from sponsorships is not the sole and guiding focus of the club.
Manchester United will always be able to make money. I am not calling to disband our commercial divisions, only to reestablish our priorities. Somebody like Richard Arnold could still do his job under the direction of someone like Edwin Van der Sar, rather than the other way round, where Arnold becomes Woodward 2.0 and leads a complicated hierarchy of yes men whose jobs it is to try and make football work around our commercial goals.