Manchester United spent £8.4m to sack Louis van Gaal and his staff, it was revealed on Monday.
We know what you’re thinking, £8.4m sounds like a lot of money. And it *is* a lot of money to, you know, ordinary people like us, living our ordinary lives, and wondering if we can really afford to go large on our McDonald’s order.
But to Manchester United? Well it’s still a lot of money, but it’s not really in the big leagues – not when you consider how much the club actually makes.
Today the club announced record revenues of £515.3m for the 2015-16 financial year – the first British club to break to the £500m mark, and the second in world football after Barcelona.
But that is still not the reason the £8.4m United spent in compensation for Van Gaal and his staff looks so cheap.
Man United paid out £8.4m in compensation last year to sack Van Gaal and members of coaching staff, accounts reveal
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Nor is it because they have just spent ten times that amount on one single player in the shape of Paul Pogba.
No. The reason by the £8.4m spent on sacking Van Gaal is really not that much can be summed up in one four of four letters.
Bebe.
Yep, maths tells us that that figure equates to 1.14 Bebes.
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And when the Red Devils can afford to throw around that kind of cash on the most baffling transfer of the 21st century, then shelling out £8m to get rid of Van Gaal and his particular brand of anti-football looks like a right old bargain.
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