Over the last decade, Manchester United have increasingly shown themselves to be more motivated by profit than with the quality of what the team is producing on the field. Yet two recent events may soon demonstrate that the link between success on and off the field is unavoidable.
The first was the transfer of Brazilian playmaker Alex Teixeira from Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk to Jiangsu Suning of China. The second was the news that the club's share price has fallen to its lowest level in three years -- to $13.86, a price not seen since December 2012.