{"id":18604,"date":"2016-02-11T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=18604"},"modified":"2016-02-11T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:43:04","slug":"man-utd-premier-league-club-on-track-to-earn-500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/man-utd-premier-league-club-on-track-to-earn-500m\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: Premier League club on track to earn \u00a3500m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are on track to become the first British club to earn more than \u00a3500m in one year despite their lack of success on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Second-quarter revenues rose by 26.6% to a record \u00a3133.8m, with commercial revenues up 42.5% to \u00a366.1m.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast revenue rose 31.3% to \u00a337.3m and sponsorship revenue rose by \u00a31.6m, but matchday income was down 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils currently lie fifth in the Premier League table and have been knocked out of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our solid results off the pitch help contribute to what remains our number one priority &#8211; success on the pitch,&#8221; said executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s chances of qualification for next season&#8217;s Champions League hang in the balance after an inconsistent season under Louis van Gaal.<\/p>\n<p>Majority owned by the American Glazer family, they are six points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC understands Van Gaal&#8217;s position is precarious after learning that Jose Mourinho has held talks with the club about taking over in the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are on track to become the first British club to earn more than \u00a3500m in one year despite their lack of success on the pitch. Second-quarter revenues rose by 26.6% to a record \u00a3133.8m, with commercial revenues up 42.5% to \u00a366.1m. Broadcast revenue rose 31.3% to \u00a337.3m and sponsorship revenue rose by \u00a31.6m, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18606,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18604\/revisions\/18606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}