Fergie needs £100m

Posted Friday, May 11, 2012 by The Sun

RE-THINK NEEDED ... Utd boss Alex Ferguson

ALEX FERGUSON, at the venerable age of 70, faces the most monumental challenge of his trophy-strewn career.

Should Manchester City, as expected, win their first title in 44 years this Sunday, Ferguson will have to come up with the greatest master-plan of his 25 years at Old Trafford just to keep City on the radar.

Failure to do so and Roberto Mancini could well be half the way down the road towards creating football’s next dynasty.

The bottom line to all this is pretty simple — and makes desperate reading for United fans.

While Sheikh Mansour has ploughed £1BILLION into City, the Glazers have taken out half a billion just to service their original £526million loan to purchase United in 2005.

United’s latest yearly accounts revealed revenue streams had grown to a record £331m and an operating profit of £110m.

Yet almost HALF that went in paying interest on debt.

Yes, the Glazers made over £50m available to Ferguson last summer to buy David De Gea, Phil Jones and Ashley Young.

But the United boss will require a figure of almost double that to bring in new signings to bolster a club that, barring a miracle on Sunday, will complete their first campaign without a trophy for seven seasons.

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