The latest polls show that Manchester United has 670,000,000 fans worldwide. With an audience that enormous you can see why their television presence is so huge. The Red Devils command 51% of Premier League television viewers as their matches are watched in over 200 countries all over the world.
That attributes to United being valued at over $3 billion, the first sports franchise to ever reach that amount.
Manchester United commands more than 51% of the Premier League’s entire global tv audience pic.twitter.com/LuJlOug4tw
— Man Utd News (@SirAlexStand) November 18, 2014
Manchester United are the most vaulable sports club in the entire world with Forbes rated them as being valued $3.6 billion in July 2014.
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