Malcolm Glazer: money-making machine who saddled Man U with a £700m debt

Malcolm Glazer - reckoned to be worth around $2.2bn - incurred the wrath of Manchester United fans after he saddled the previously-debt-free club with a £700m millstone while lining his own pockets.

By all accounts, Malcolm Glazer has a thick skin. But even he must have winced when he heard "Malcolm Glazer's gonna die" chanted around the stands at Old Trafford when he bought Manchester United in 2005. Since then, Glazer, now 80, has suffered two strokes and handed control of the club to his sons.

But as for mercy, forget it, say Manchester United fans. If anything, the chants have got worse. Yet for all the vitriol and threats, the Glazers seem determined to fend off the Red Knights' bid for the club, or at least hold out for the highest possible price (see below).

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