GLAZERS PLAN OLD TRAFFORD SELL-OFF

Last updated : 08 February 2006 By Editor

The stadium naming rights issue crops up again after United apparently “bowed to player power and pulled out of a friendly in Qatar just days before the Carling Cup final”. Other sources indicate the Qatar game will probably go ahead, but at a different time.

Meanwhile, whilst not wholly relevant, a quick reminder from Joel Glazer’s ‘hard-hitting’ MUTV interview last June:

What is your response to the allegations you are going to sell and lease back Old Trafford?

"Absolutely ridiculous! That’s been one of the real frustrating things we’ve read about and you just want to communicate directly that that’s not going to happen. There are absolutely no plans to do that. This is the heritage and the real foundation of this club so there is no thought process whatsoever to be doing that.”