I am grateful to my fellow United supporter. I have been following his arguments very carefully and find that I agree with them. United's competitors are not York City or Southend or even really Portsmouth. United's main competitors are Real Madrid, Barcelona and Bayern Munich. We need a level playing field for international competition, and that is the responsibility of FIFA and UEFA, and they should introduce regulations to ensure transparency and to limit the amount of debt, and that would stop leveraged buy-outs, as happened to Manchester United.
Professional Football (Regulation)
Proceeding contribution from
Graham Stringer
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 10 February 2010.
It occurred during Adjournment debate on Professional Football (Regulation).
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2009-10
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