CLUB CASH SOCCER'S OWNERS SQUARE UP

摘要

For a soccer club In England's Barclays Premier League right now, being owned by a commodtes-flush oligarch, an oll-rlch sheik or even a former leader with a shaky human rights record might be preferable to being owned by American capitalists and their friends. Take Manchester United FC. All Is not well at Old Trafford, home of England's best-known soccer club. If United hadn't sold the Portuguese International striker Crlstlano Ronaldo to Spanish soccer club Real Madrid for a record ￡80 million ($ 130 million) over the summer, it would be severely in the red today.