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Days of reckless spending at Manchester United are over with arrival of Jim Ratcliffe’s billions
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Winger Antony has struggled this season at Manchester United, scoring just four goals and supplying just two assists.
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LONDON – In bang-for-buck terms, the Manchester United of 2023 rate decidedly low. For an accumulated cost of €1.422 billion (S$2.06 billion), a squad revealed as the most expensive in history by a Uefa report released this week won the League Cup and finished third in last season’s Premier League, 14 points behind champions Manchester City.
They followed that up by exiting the Champions League, and European competition in full, during a near-disastrous first half of the season.
