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Manchester United is one of the most successful football clubs in the world right now. Economically speaking, at least.
According to the 2025 Deloitte Money League, which profiles the highest revenue generating football clubs in world football, Manchester United were the fourth richest club in the world the previous season, generating about $870 million, which is behind only Real Madrid, Manchester City (although their financial reputability is another story entirely), and Paris Saint-Germain, who have similarly divisive oil state backing.
Then come Manchester United, who are owned by the Glazer Family, the same family who own the NFL’s Tampa Bay Bucs, and recently staked minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe on INEOS.
Ask any Manchester United fan about the Glazers (and, in quite short time, Ratcliffe, as well) as they’ll like spit venom in your face, as they despise their owners. This is because, while the team is monetarily successful, they’re a disaster on-the-field, as they just ended the season in their lowest-ever Premier League position, 15th place.
As a result of Manchester United being more of a capitalistic machine then a football club, the players find themselves having to do things like being dragged off to Malaysia for a preseason tour just says after their likely deeply draining 10-month-long season. And the scenes coming out of Malaysia certainly aren’t bringing “Glory, glory” to Man United, to say the least.
One viral video shows the team partaking in a pitiful open bus tour through the streets of Kuala Lumpur.
🔥 OMG – The #MUFC Open-Top Bus Parade is underway in #Malaysia 🇲🇾
Absolute scenes 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/ZKSFIKI19R
— AnfieldIndex (@AnfieldIndex) May 28, 2025
Another embarrassing viral clip showed winger Amad Diallo essentially asking a fan for money by asking him to pay for, and therefore activate, his electric scooter.
😂 Amad Diallo asking a fan to pay for his scooter hire in Malaysia 🇲🇾 pic.twitter.com/0YQ4S5xdkk
— SimplyUtd (@SimplyUtd) May 28, 2025
It’s not like Manchester United rolled out a squad full of inexperienced teenagers, either, as just three of their starting XI weren’t first team players.
The biggest kicker of United’s loss to the ASEAN all-stars, though, is that they’re not even a real club, as it was a team made up of players from across South Eastern Asia, and apparently had just a 6% chance of win.
Heading into the 2025/26 campaign, Manchester United are facing a season without European football — having failed to qualify for the Champions League, Europa League, or UEFA Conferenc League — for the first time in over a decade.