It&#x27;s not turning out that way for Manchester United though. The Glazer takeover simply burdened the club with massive debt, did not change anything in terms of actually running the club, and nobody will ever pay 5-10x what the Glazers did. It just enabled them to siphon money out of the club (as well as using it as a financial dump for sketchy funds, but that&#x27;s pretty common in the football world).<p>Leveraged takeovers are often simple cash grabs by plundering buccaneers.