Can Manchester United be turned around?
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In the 24/25 season the club finished in it's worst ever Premier League position.
It also failed to qualify lucrative European football.
Off the pitch, talk of worsening financial difficulties and redundancies at its Old Trafford HQ.
Can new part-owner - and Britain's wealthiest man - Sir Jim Ratcliffe turn things around?
And as the club looks to replace Old Trafford, is now really the right time to be investing in a new stadium?
Produced and presented by Matt Lines
(Image: Diogo Dalot of Manchester United looks dejected with his teammates at the end of the UEFA Europa League Final match between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United 21 May 2025. Credit: Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service with me Matt Lines. |
| 0:06.9 | And today we're talking about one of the biggest football clubs in the world. |
| 0:09.8 | Manchester United. |
| 0:10.9 | Manchester United. |
| 0:13.0 | Once the most successful club in the Premier League, all is not well here at Old Trafford, |
| 0:16.9 | Manchester United's home stadium. |
| 0:19.0 | On the pitch, 24, 25 was one of their worst ever seasons, |
| 0:23.4 | culminating in failure to qualify for a lucrative European spot. |
| 0:27.4 | Overall, the cost will be in excess of 100 million. |
| 0:31.8 | And off the pitch financial difficulties, |
| 0:33.9 | Britain's wealthiest man to Jim Ratcliffe is now a part owner |
| 0:37.0 | and has come in with a promise to turn the club around. |
| 0:39.7 | He's got to get the next season right. |
| 0:42.4 | Well, he's very, very quickly going to become as bad as the glazers, synonymous with the glazers. |
| 0:47.7 | And I think it becomes really, really tricky for him going forward. |
| 0:50.7 | The club has announced financial losses and is making redundancies. |
| 0:53.7 | Yet it also wants to build a new multi-billion dollar, 100,000 seat descent. going forward. The club has announced financial losses and is making redundancies, |
| 0:58.7 | yet it also wants to build a new multi-billion dollar 100,000-seater stadium to replace the iconic Old Trafford. |
| 1:00.9 | You need to build a narrative that will make it appealing for a Sugar Daddy perhaps |
| 1:07.4 | to come and say inject here $1.5 billion into the club or $2 billion. |
| 1:11.6 | The finances and future of Manchester United. |
| 1:14.2 | That's coming up on today's Business Daily. |
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