While maintaining suspense over your sales process, the Manchester United revised its revenue and profit targets for the 2022/23 season as it published its third-quarter results on Tuesday.
“For fiscal 2023, the group raises its revenue forecast from £590-610 million (R$3.57 billion to R$3.70 billion at current exchange rate) to a record margin of pounds (R$3.82 billion to R$3.88 billion),” the club said in an official statement.
United’s previous record was recorded in the 2018/2019 season, with 627 million pounds (R$ 3.80 billion).
The ‘Red Devils’ also published their estimate of gross operating income (EBITDA): 150 million pounds (R$ 909 million), compared to the 140 million (R$ 849 million) previously announced.
These good results are the result of a positive season, with the third position in the English Championship and a place in the next Champions League, in addition to the title of the English League Cup and the runner-up in the FA Cup, with a defeat in the final to the arch-rival Manchester City.
United sold 2.4 million tickets this season, surpassing the previous record set in 2016/2017.
This Tuesday, the board declined to comment on the club’s sale process, which began in November.
The president of the Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al-Thani, who made an offer of 6.5 billion euros (R$ 33.8 billion), seems to be ahead of the British Jim Ratcliffe, owner of the petrochemical group Ineos, which is willing to keep the Glazer family, owner of Manchester United since 2005, as a minority shareholder.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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