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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Mark Critchley

Manchester United and the Glazers’s debt explained

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The Glazer family’s acquisition of Manchester United remains controversial to this day.

Their £790m takeover in the summer of 2005 came by way of a leveraged buyout: when a significant amount of borrowed money is used to fund the acquisition of a company, with the debt secured against that company itself.

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