SIR JIM BALANCING ACT

Glazer family’s leveraged buyout in 2005, meaning the club owed a shocking £1.29bn at the end of last year.

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Meanwhile, total revenues for the second quarter of the financial year were £190.3m, down from £198.7m for the equivalent period the previous year, with commercial revenue dropping from £85.1m to £78.5m and match-day revenues down from £52m to £49.5m.