Manchester United Worldwide

In 2013, an extremely large survey was carried out and the results were astonishing. This was largest worldwide football survey. According to this survey that was carried out by Kantar Media, there is 1.6 billion football fans around the world. Manchester United fans dominated the survey and according to the survey, 659 million of the 1.6 billion fans support Manchester United. As reported by Kantar, approximately half of these fans live in the Asia Pacific region. This survey also states that around 108 million of Manchester United fans live in China. These results from the Kantar media survey were mind-blowing as it states that Manchester United fans nearly make up 10% of the world's population. This shows how big Manchester United have grown as a club.
Old Trafford has the capacity to hold 75,635 fans. According to this website, the average attendence at Old Trafford for the 2016/2017 season is 75,286. That's an average of 99.5% of Old Trafford's capacity.
Money has become a big factor in football and over the last few years, Manchester United have spent huge amounts of money. This season they bought Paul Pogba for 89 million which broke the transfer record. They also spent 30 million on young centre back Eric Bailly and 26 million on Henrikh Mkhitaryan. They also got Zlatan Ibrahimovic for free but he is on huge wages. They had a net spend of 142,500,000. In the 15/16 season Manchester United had a net spend of around 28 million but they spent around 103 million on Memphis Depay, Matteo Darmian, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Anthony Martial, Morgan Schneiderlin, Sergio Romero and Regan Poole. Out of these players only Anthony Martial has been a success. They sold Ángel Di María for around 44 million to PSG and Javier Hernández for around 12,000. The season before Manchester United broke the British transfer record on Di Maria signing him from Real Madrid for 59,700,000. In the 14/15 season they spent 145,500,000 on Ángel Di María, Ander Herrera, Luke Shaw, Marcos Rojo, Victor Valdez and Daley Blind. They had a big clear out that year and sold players such as Shinji Kagawa and Danny Welbeck and club legends Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Ryan Giggs and Patrice Evra all left the club. They had a net spend of 104 millon. The last three seasons, Manchester United have spent over 100 million on players and this hasn't proved worth it as they have only won the FA Cup in the last three years and have only made the Uefa Champions League once.
Accoridng to a survey in 2016, Manchester United are now the best paid football team. They have passed out Barcelona who have huge players such as Messi, Neymar, Suárez, Iniesta and Busquets.
United's average first team pay has passed every other football team. According to this survey, their average wage is calculated at a staggering £110,962 a week. They are the fourth best paid team in the world. The best paid team in the world are NBA team the Cleveland Cavaliers who are on average paid £125,883 a week. This shows how big a club Manchester United have become.

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