Manchester City - in United's shadow until being bought by Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mansour in 2008 - have won the league in six of the last 12 seasons. Newcastle are already resurgent and challenging for Champions League qualification after a year under Saudi ownership.
The focus on Qatar for the World Cup underscores football's transformed financial landscape in the 17 years of the Glazer family's ownership of Manchester United.
It's been a period of decline at Old Trafford, while state-owned clubs have been on the ascendancy - with owners with the financial firepower to splurge cash to sign the superstars and amass silverware. They have exposed a business model at Old Trafford that sees the growth in commercial revenue necessary to service a debt that didn't exist until theIt has taken more than £1bn to service that debt since 2005.
And United are without any trophy since 2017 - a drought that has reignited dissent against the American owners. Meanwhile, the clubs with sovereign wealth cash to speed freely - within football financial regulations - are proving hard to keep up with.
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