O clube mais rico do mundo

The discovery that this debt in Manchester United is now a commodity on the screens of City traders drives home the still-staggering facts of the takeover. Here was a great, pre-eminent football club that prided itself on being well-run, owed not a penny to anybody, financed Sir Alex Ferguson's awesome achievements and rebuilt Old Trafford entirely with cash, yet was loaded up with £667m of debt, massively more than any other football club ever, solely to pay for the Glazer family, whom nobody wanted, to take over the club.