A typical recent accounting year looks like:
Income £475m (hit by Covid)
Payroll costs -£312m
Directors remuneration to Glazer’s - possibly?
Interest paid to the US lenders -£17m (because the Glazer’s borrowed to buy the club. Which is not uncommon eg Hicks/Gillett did to buy LFC, before they...
Their current team, in any game, would be improved by Veltman, Webster, Dunk, Caicedo, Welbeck, Trossard, possibly one other.
More money than sense. They’ve spent the last 9 years burning vast piles of cash on average players.
The defence team red herrings include the fear the Maguire crew had that Albanian kidnappers were abducting them from their limo transport. After watching Taken once too often, Sheffield’s hardest beat the Albanians up.
The one snag, they were Greek police.
He wanted to leave Greece as quickly as possible, which the Greek lawyer engaged by Manure arranged after two nights in custody for Maguire.
Once this is all chip paper, I envisage the Maguire entourage partying anywhere but Greece in future.
Regarding the Dunk angle to this, don’t let’s get our hopes up.
There must be a 17 year old at Chelsea or ManU who can take Maguire’s place. Southgate frantically thumbing through club development squad lists.