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17.03.26 - 16:01
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Parimatch Expands Fan Engagement with Manchester United Across Asia (Cision)
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Parimatch is stepping up its collaboration with Manchester United, expanding a series of fan engagement initiatives designed to connect the club's Asian fans more closely with its players and match-day experience.
As the club's Official Betting Partner in Asia, Parimatch has launched a range of exclusive content and digital activations featuring Manchester United players including Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire and Matheus Cunha.
The initiative reflects a broader strategy to move sports partnerships beyond traditional sponsorship visibility, focusing instead on storytelling, fan...
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06.03.26 - 14:18
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Manchester United say 5% season-ticket price increase needed to ′return to top of game′ (The Guardian)
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'We want to keep investing in the team'United fan group 'disappointed' with decisionManchester United insist a 5% increase in ticket prices around Old Trafford next season will help in their quest to “return to the top of domestic and European football”. United are third in the Premier League under their interim head coach Michael Carrick and are well placed to return to the Champions League after a rare season without European football.The club want to kick on and mark their 150th anniversary in 2028 with a first league title since 2013 and say increased ticket prices in the 2026-27 campaign will help them invest in football and facilities. Continue reading......
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26.02.26 - 15:54
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Manchester United Just Proved the Ratcliffe Cost-Cutting Plan Is Working — Sort Of (24/7 Wall St.)
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Manchester United's fiscal Q2 2026 results, filed February 25, 2026, delivered a sharper-than-expected profitability turnaround driven almost entirely by cost discipline rather than revenue growth. The stock was priced at $17.95 at filing, though it closed the day at $17.36, down 3.72% over the prior week. The headline number: adjusted diluted EPS swung from a ... Manchester United Just Proved the Ratcliffe Cost-Cutting Plan Is Working — Sort Of
The post Manchester United Just Proved the Ratcliffe Cost-Cutting Plan Is Working — Sort Of appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.....
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25.02.26 - 13:06
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Manchester United Plc Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Results (Business Wire)
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Key Points
Generated operating profit in first 6 months of fiscal 2026 of £32.6 million, compared to £3.9 million operating loss in first 6 months of fiscal 2025, as the Club continues to see the positive impact of operating cost and headcount reduction programs implemented in the prior year;
6 month adjusted EBITDA at £102.9 million, versus £94.2 million in 6 months to 31 December 2024 representing a 9.2% increase, despite total revenue decrease with men's first team not participating in UEFA competition in fiscal 2026;
Achieved total revenues of £190.3 million and adjusted EBITDA of £76.0 million, compared to £198.7 million and £70.5 million respectively in the second quarter of fiscal 2025;
Operating profit for the quarter was £19.6 million, compared to £3.1 million in the second quarter of fiscal 2025;
The men's first team is currently positioned 4th in the Premier League; our women's first team is currently 2nd in the Women's Super League. The men's first team appointed Michael Carrick...
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24.02.26 - 15:06
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Anthony Kontoleon Joins The Raine Group as a Partner (Business Wire)
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Raine Group (“Raine”), a leading global strategic advisory and investment firm, today announced that Anthony Kontoleon has joined as a Partner.
Mr. Kontoleon brings a complementary network of well-established relationships and deep product expertise, along with a proven track record of helping companies scale and successfully navigate pivotal moments in their growth.
Over a storied 25+ year career, Mr. Kontoleon has advised high profile growth companies like Alibaba, Google, Palantir, Manchester United, among hundreds of others. He has acted in co-advisory and collaborative roles with Raine, most notably on private raises for DraftKings and Epic Games. Mr. Kontoleon has also been a constructive and solution-oriented advisor to counterparties of Raine-advised clients.
“AK has been a long-time friend of the firm and someone we have worked with for over a decade, and we are excited to have him join the Raine team,” said Brandon Gardner, President and Co-Founder of Raine...
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18.02.26 - 16:36
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Jim Ratcliffe′s shameless comments signal soccer′s turn toward total Trumpism | Leander Schaerlaeckens (The Guardian)
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What made the Manchester United co-owner's anti-immigrant screed so revolting was his brazen willingness to say it all out loud. Remind you of anyone?Did British petrochemicals billionaire and Manchester United's controlling minority owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, really mean it when he proclaimed to Sky News that “the UK is being colonized by immigrants”?Is Ratcliffe simply a gutter racist or actually making a cynical political play that may redound to his benefit down the line when Britain faces down yet another period of political upheaval as the country's old factions continue to fracture? There's reasonable debate to be had there. Continue reading......
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17.02.26 - 23:42
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Jim Ratcliffe′s repugnant words have sullied Manchester United′s reputation | Letters (The Guardian)
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Readers respond to the billionaire Manchester United co-owner's remark that 'the UK is being colonised by immigrants'In response to the billionaire industrialist and Manchester United co-owner Jim Ratcliffe's historically, economically and culturally illiterate and deeply offensive remark that “the UK is being colonised by immigrants”, it was fitting that he should be rebuked, albeit only implicitly, in a statement issued by the football club amid a tsunami of condemnation from politicians, club supporters and anti-racist groups (Jim Ratcliffe apologises for 'choice of language' after saying immigrants 'colonising' UK, 12 February).Quite rightly, Ratcliffe's words are now being investigated by the Football Association. As a lifelong Manchester United fan, I have no doubt that Ratcliffe has brought the game into disrepute and sullied the club's reputation. His vile comments constitute a failure of moral leadership and a betrayal of the club's proud and pivotal role in the anti-racism work of...
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17.02.26 - 14:57
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In Defense Of Sir Jim Ratcliffe (ZeroHedge)
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In Defense Of Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Authored by Charles Johnson via TheCritic.co.uk,
Far more energy has gone into condemning his phrasing than confronting the questions he raised...
Sir Jim Ratcliffe's statement that Britain has been “colonised by immigrants” has sparked a fierce reaction.
From Starmer to Bluesky, to the Athletic and all the football social media pundits in between, the co-owner of Manchester United has been bombarded with the same attack lines repeatedly.
He has been called a tax dodging, racist immigrant hypocrite.
Such an uproar has flared up in such a short space of time because Ratcliffe is radically different from those who have issued similar statements before. Ratcliffe is not a political figure: you do not see billionaires nor football club owners voicing discontent like this. The pushback has been fierce because Ratcliffe has no political incentive to say any of this. He isn't running for office, seeking favour, or chasing votes — which makes his intervention ...
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17.02.26 - 13:03
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Manchester United plc Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2026 Earnings Report Date (Business Wire)
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MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Manchester United plc (NYSE: MANU), announces that it will report results for the second quarter fiscal 2026 period ended 31 December 2025 via press release on 25 February 2026 at 7:00 AM EST.
About Manchester United
Manchester United is one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, playing one of the most popular spectator sports on Earth. Through our 148-year football heritage we have won 69 trophies, enabling us to develop what we believe is one of the world's leading sports and entertainment brands with a global community of 1.1 billion fans and followers, per latest available survey data from 2019. Our large, passionate, and highly engaged fan base provides Manchester United with a worldwide platform to generate significant revenue from multiple sources, including sponsorship, merchandising, product licensing, broadcasting and matchday initiatives which in turn, directly fund our ability to continuously reinvest in the club. Contacts
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13.02.26 - 07:30
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Football must reject Sir Jim Ratcliffe′s cynical, self-serving electioneering | Barney Ronay (The Guardian)
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Tax exile has already proven himself a terrible club owner; now his ill-informed diatribe about immigration has poured fuel on wider flamesWell I, for one, am shocked. Shocked to learn that a tax-exiled English expat who made his billions squeezing chemical plants doesn't have liberal, let alone accurate, views on immigration. Or at least, in public anyway.It seems highly likely Sir Jim Ratcliffe knew what he was doing in the course of his now semi-recanted Sky News interview. And it is above all vital that at least one part of his empire of influence – football, sport, Manchester United – rejects it, as the club have done to some extent in their statement. Continue reading......
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