The Man Utd IPO has been knocking around for about 2 years now. The original plans were put back after the Glazers organised a bond sale which generated about £250M which a large chunk went to the banks to pay off some of the leveraged debt from the purchase price of £770M.

The Glazers are almost 2/3rd's of the way into paying the leverage back.

The GM Cheverolet main shirt sponsership comes into effect in 2014-15 season. Yes, it is a massive sponsership deal, but almost all of Man Utd's sponserships are massive. Current car suppliers Audi basically give all of the players corporate cars in turn for appearing in adverts and their logos are all over the dug-out chairs. They also have a very big contract with Turkish Airways. Anyone seen the advert of them playing a game of football onboard a flight is superb!

Basically Sur you touch on this yourself. Man Utd are the biggest football brand in the world and large corporations are queueing up to become associated with them.

Everton take note. THIS IS HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR BRAND!

On the point about not being able to splash the cash as his hands are tied.Since the Glazers took over in 2005 I think you will find that they have sanctioned the following transfers:

Anderson £17M
Nani £13M
Carrick £17M
Vidic £7M
A Young £17M
Jones £19M
Smalling £10M
De Gea £19M
Valencia £16M
Kagawa £17M
Hernandez £6M
Bebe £7M
Berbatov £31M

I think there has been a fair amount of money spent on the current team.

Man Utd will never go down the tubes at all.

Alex Ferguson is more likely to come to Everton than David Moyes is likely to go the Man Utd. The owners of United are not, contrary to the opinion of many, deaf dumb blind and stupid. They must see the inconsistency, the tentative brand of football, the lame excuses and the persistence with certain failing players and certain failing systems. They are not about to import that culture of failure to Old Trafford, After Everton, Moyes will either grab the Scotland job or go to the MLS because he will not be put under pressure to succeed in either of those jobs either. Copper bottomed, brick-lined, iron clad, lead-pipe guarantee. Hope I am wrong because such a move would damage United and benefit Everton.

Yes please!

Claiming Ferguson has said he is on the side of the fans is a bit of a stretch.

Ferguson has stated that he will not, as suggested by fans who have since apologised, financially benefit from the latest moves from the Glazers and therefore has no ulterior motive for backing them.

Ferguson hasnt uttered one word against them, as some United fans who live in dreamland think he should to start some kind of anti-Glazer momentum, like its ever going to happen and he would self sabotage the last years of his career and destsbilise the club.

Ferguson got a bit too big for his boots once over the Rock of Gibralter wrangle and got way out of his depth. It seemed the worst aspects of his sheer bloody mindedness came to the fore and he got firmly put in his place, shown what real power was and ended up on one year rolling contracts and family dealings with players ceased thanks to the Magners and the 99 questions.

Any manager knows the value of a good relationship with your board, which does cut both ways. But when it isn't there it leads to trouble, recent examples are Redknapp and Benitez.

As for Moyes, I rate him but I personally couldnt see a club who look to get to the last 8 of the champions league every season entertaining someone without even a track record in the uefa.

David Moyes has obvious attributes: making us difficult to beat, getting the players to run until they drop, demanding the players stick rigidly to a game plan with no truck given to anyone straying from orders, achieving 7/8th position on a regular basis.

However, managing a top 4 club in the future is not, and never will be, in his remit.

Claiming Ferguson has said he is on the side of the fans is a bit of a stretch.

Ferguson has stated that he will not, as suggested by fans who have since apologised, financially benefit from the latest moves from the Glazers and therefore has no ulterior motive for backing them.

Ferguson hasnt uttered one word against them, as some United fans who live in dreamland think he should to start some kind of anti-Glazer momentum, like its ever going to happen and he would self sabotage the last years of his career and destsbilise the club.

Ferguson got a bit too big for his boots once over the Rock of Gibralter wrangle and got way out of his depth. It seemed the worst aspects of his sheer bloody mindedness came to the fore and he got firmly put in his place, shown what real power was and ended up on one year rolling contracts and family dealings with players ceased thanks to the Magners and the 99 questions.

Any manager knows the value of a good relationship with your board, which does cut both ways. But when it isn't there it leads to trouble, recent examples are Redknapp and Benitez.

As for Moyes, I rate him but I personally couldnt see a club who look to get to the last 8 of the champions league every season entertaining someone without even a track record in the uefa.

is it April the 1st again?

Claiming Ferguson has said he is on the side of the fans is a bit of a stretch.

Ferguson has stated that he will not, as suggested by fans who have since apologised, financially benefit from the latest moves from the Glazers and therefore has no ulterior motive for backing them.

Ferguson hasnt uttered one word against them, as some United fans who live in dreamland think he should to start some kind of anti-Glazer momentum, like it's ever going to happen and he would self sabotage the last years of his career and destabilise the club.

Ferguson got a bit too big for his boots once over the Rock of Gibralter wrangle and got way out of his depth. It seemed the worst aspects of his sheer bloody mindedness came to the fore and he got firmly put in his place, shown what real power was and ended up on one year rolling contracts and family dealings with players ceased thanks to the Magners and the 99 questions.

Any manager knows the value of a good relationship with your board, which does cut both ways. But when it isn't there it leads to trouble, recent examples are Redknapp and Benitez.

As for Moyes, I rate him but I personally couldn't see a club who look to get to the last 8 of the Champions League every season entertaining someone without even a track record in the Uefa/Europa.

"It seems like things are getting bad at Man U"

An Everton fan concerning themselves with the financial situation at Man United is like a battered wife fretting about the welfare of fat Tyrone off Coronation Street.

Their purported struggles are pure fantasy land. In the real world, we're currently the one's spread eagled on the floor with a black eye and notice to 'get the fucking chips on'.