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...million, four-year tie-up with United is the most expensive ever in English football - "if you look at the overall marketing spend of the companies involved, the shirt sponsorship was tiny," points out Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, a British sponsorship consultancy. Any link between the deal and AIG's current woes, Mason says, is "coincidental...
...Companies are actually a lot smarter about sponsoring things than they used to be, says Chadwick. Rather than treat a deal like a one-time transaction and stepping back as soon as a logo is sewn into a jersey, big firms - not to mention big clubs - are more likely to "carefully select a partner to build a strategic relationship with," he says. With more than half of Manchester United's estimated 75 million fans worldwide now based in Asia, the investment by AIG - keen to build their business in the region - made good business sense. When quizzed by a shareholder...
...arrange a $70 billion private loan for AIG, but that didn't go anywhere. Treasury officials mulled a government conservatorship as with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but it might have required an act of Congress to make that happen. So the Fed devised a deal in which AIG agrees to repay the loan with asset sales and give the government (and thus taxpayers) a 79.9% equity stake in the company...
...returns to full fitness. Senior co-captain Luke Sager appreciates how much having players like Nyamekye can open up options for the team. “We have a lot of guys here who are pretty versatile,” Sager said. That flexibility, as well as a great deal of talent, has the coaching staff and players all anticipating a very successful season. “If we can stay healthy and if we can continue to work and keep the right attitude, we can do special things,” Clark said. And the manner of their early...
...What’s the big deal?” Di Pasquale said. “Looking at pictures and thinking, ‘Wow, this person is beautiful’—that’s totally acceptable...