Today, Manchester United announced their highest-ever annual revenue, recording a mammoth £666.5 million earned by the club over the last year.
The Red Devils have seen a whole host of measures implemented by Sir Jim Ratcliffe since INEOS took over football operations at Old Trafford just over a year and a half ago.
These have included intense scrutiny over operational costs, ticket price hikes, mass redundancies, and more recently, offloading some of their highest earners in their squad.
Whilst on the whole, Ratcliffe’s measures have been highly controversial among the United fan base, the release of the 2025 fiscal report has revealed the positive progress at the club, in a year where they’ve missed out on European football.
This summer The Red Devils have made a massive push to offload their unwanted stars, including Antony, Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho, who all had salaries of £300,000 per week and upwards.
The four, as well as Alejandro Garnacho were all offloaded, with United signing Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo, Senne Lammens and Benjamin Seskso, however only agreeing wages of around £200,000 per week, contributing to a massive saving of £51.5 million.
As such, The Times have reported that for the first time in Premier League history, Manchester United’s wage bill has fallen beneath Arsenal’s, with the Gunners salaray for the 2023/24 season being £328 million and United’s reported as £313 million.
This sets United as having the fifth heightes wage commitments for the 2023/24 Premier League season, with Manchester City leading the pack, followed by Liverpool, Chelsea and then Arsenal.
