The lousy Manchester United season makes a dent in the club’s actions. After facing Tottenham Hotspur, the titles of the ‘Red Devils’ have signed on Thursday their greatest fall in more than eight months, with a decrease of 8.67%.
The stock market punishment is not only because Manchester United did not rise with the European title, but also to the fact that the team will be out of European competitions next season. The United failed to finish among the top six classified of the Premier League and lost its last chance to access the Champions League when falling into the Europa League final. This implies giving up a part of a total market of 2.5 billion euros (approximately 2.8 billion dollars).
For investors, by not playing the Champions League, the highest competition at European level, he will have serious economic problems – which have already dragged for years – when obtaining trade agreements and for sale of tickets, in addition to being affected his ability to attract new players. The Champions League not only offers sports prestige, but also important box office and transmission rights.
“We assume that the team will end in the 15th place of the English League and that by 2026 it will reach the tenth place. We also maintain our forecast that it will be eliminated in the round of 16 of the Europa League. The true short -term increase of the income could come from the classification for the Champions League if the team wins the Europa League or for the Europa of our estimates, ”said a published last February.
Despite the disastrous sports situation of the English team, analysts still see recovery potential both at the club and financial level. On the one hand, they emphasize that it is a team with income greater than most of its competitors. On the other, they remember that the complete remodeling of its stadium, Old Trafford, could increase revenues in 200 million per year sterling pounds, thanks to the increase in the sale of private tickets, events and boxes.
A goal by Brennan Johnson, who was initially attributed to Luke Shaw in his own door, gave Tottenham Hotspur the long -awaited Europa League. The London club had not built a European title for 41 years, since in 1984 the UEFA Cup won, the competition that gave rise to the current Europa League. It was a clash as intense as it locked until Johnson opened the scoring with a carambola play after a center of Senegalese Pape Matar Sarr. Then, a siege of the ‘Red Devils’ arrived that did not even bear fruit when Rasmus Højlund finished off the door and the Dutch Micky Van de Ven saved sharply saved in the 68th minute.
