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Originally Posted by Shadow Demon UK
Ferguson hasn't got the club in debt. Since the Glazers took over he has a net spend of £4.6million per season, that is not a lot for one of the biggest clubs in the world, who have won multiple trophies in that time. The only reason for the debt is the Glazers, the sooner an arab/asian billionaire comes and buys the club the better.
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The Glazers are to blame but Ferguson has had a habit, especially in the last decade, of big signings to replace problem areas in his team. Now he and United need to adapt. If this were 3/4 years ago there would have been a handful of signings to fix the awkward positions in the team. He would have brought players like Ribery last summer for example.
The fans and manager seem to have become used to star buys for their problems. SAF will need to make cheaper, smarter buys and use his current team as best he can. Man City, Real Madrid and Chelsea have greatly distorted the market and priced United out of the best established players.
The net spend is a skewed point. He didn't have a lot of money to create his first winning team, most of his spending was for the subsequent teams.
He still has had a a good amount of investment in this current team. Now the board won't allow him to continue spending to correct some of those problems (Berbatov anyone?). He'll have to deal with it. Part of a good manager is the ability to operate with limited funds. Ask Wenger or Martin O'Neill. Both have created strong sides without stupid amounts of investment. We know SAF can do it, he's done it before.
All of which needs to be balanced by the fact that United are still 2nd in the league and are in the Champions League. It's not as if they are Liverpool. All of this crisis talk is because they lost one game to Leeds. Hardly a crisis. Football is 11 men vs 11 men. No one in the game is super-human, you can still lose. Madrid lost to a team 2 divisions below them late last year by 3/4 goals! That's football.