The math coming from an English report may be a little crafty, but the results are true: Manchester United are set to make just over $1 billion from Nike over the course of a 10-year relationship.The apparel agreement between the Red Devils and the American sportswear giant expires in 2015, but Nike is ready to pay 70 million pounds ($100 million) per year over a decade to stay with the club according to English reports.

Arsenal made headlines in January with the confirmation that they had linked up with Puma on a nearly $250 million deal over five years, but this Red Devils deal nearly doubles that on average.Aside from the Gunners, there shouldn't be too many hurt feelings amongst the other giants of Europe. The rising tide will lift all teams, as clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid and AC Milan will surely point to this deal when their contracts are up.

Our friends at Soccerly are reporting that Adidas, Warrior and Puma all tried to steal the Manchester United business away from Nike, so no surprise the number jumped.Hey United gets more money , but is Moyes right man to spend it wisely ?

It's clearly a win for United, but wonder what made Nike to give them that much.

Why do you think you think Moyes is the one who makes this deal go through...

if this is true it'll be just like our emirates deal a few years ago. It seemed huge at the time we signed it but then all the big teams signed even bigger deals. But for now our partnership with puma is still the most profitable in the EPL, let's wait and see.

This means nothing in the next seasons if united are still shit :)

biggest deals today:
£31 million per year - Real Madrid (Adidas 2012-20)
£30m - Arsenal (Puma 2014-19)
£26.3m - Barcelona (Nike 2006-13)
£25m - Liverpool (Warrior 2012-2015)
£23.5m - Manchester United (Nike 2002-15)
£22m - Bayern Munich (Adidas 2011-20)
£20m - Chelsea (Adidas 2010-18)
£12m - Manchester City (Nike 2013-19)

@iamRDM, actually it means that United will soon be debt free and we are a club that is self-sustaining with a global fan base, so if the owners leave there will be plenty of suitors. Can you say the same with Chelsea and their constant annual losses?
Chelsea's basic financial record:

2004 - Loss £74.7m
2005 - Loss £131.6m
2006 - Loss £77.1m
2007 - Loss £65.6m
2008 - Loss £69.2m
2009 - Loss £45.8m
2010 - Loss £69.2m
2011 - Loss £70.7m
2012 - Profit £1.4m
2013 - Loss £49.4m

@thegame no one ever claimed chelsea or city were sustainable clubs.

@KingHenry, just providing perspective that not doing well on the pitch doesn't necessarily translate to failure outside of the pitch.

alright thegame, fair enough. yes chelsea have debt, but we are working hard to expand our fanbase and get many new sponsors, slowly but surely we are getting there. As a chelsea fan, i am positive chelsea are sustainable.

what i meant in my previous comment was, you can be debt free all you want, but the fans want result on the pitch, they want success and trophies. anyway, congratulations on the 1billion deal, lets see if it will be well spent or not :)

enjoy the simpsons chelsea new partner :)

@fabryi Here is your answer !!

@thegame

Chelsea is debt free , those looses are covered , do not worry too much . Your club's financial wealth is purely down to 20 years of success that Sir Alex brought to United . Let me repeat it , United was very lucky to have Sir Alex as a coach . Hey One day we will get there too . We are just warming up , if you think you have seen it all from Chelsea than you are in for big disappointment .

IF Sir Alex built United empire in 20 years , we will build in 10 if not even less .

The difference Marcus is that Manchester United built its core from academy products, now tell me how many Chelsea academy products have been given a chance at Chelsea during Roman's reign?

LOL Yeah yeah tell me more about this great academy that produced United players who are sitting comfortably in 6th position . It was down to Sir Alex's exceptional scouting abilities . He was heavily involved in searching good youth players and young players to draw them to academy to continue their development to build foundation . They did not all come out of the United Academy , but ofcourse there were many who graduated from there as if they were there from the beginning.

Chelsea is doing exactly same . IF there is promising youth prospect we take him to our academy and continue his development and if we he fails to break into first 11 , we sell and make profit . At the same Chelsea buys young players who graduated from other academies and work on their further development .

We have superb first 11 and it is hard to make a break to even to the bench . They are all young and extremely talented , and we choose the best of the best out of that bunch . But even teams with great academies have to buy players to improve club to set competition within the squad if there is lack of quality in particular position .

Unfortunately , player like De Bruyne could not handle competition and left just like Mata , but Willian did , Cezar Azpelcueta did , Oscar did , Gary Cahil did and others are doing . It is not always that they did not get a chance . They get a chance but due to high competition sometimes they do not make it count and later get frustrated and give up searching for another club or club decides to sell . Players I listed all worked hard to improve themselves and won their places in the first 11 . They knew where they were going and what to expect.

Club as big as Chelsea needs to be competitive constantly we can't afford to risk like Arsenal waiting for their players to hit the peak . Chelsea is in expanding process and success on the pitch is crucial at the moment.

@Marcus2011, it seems that you forgot a certain Chelsea also finished 6th place not too long ago. One bad season doesn't necessarily mean you are on a decline. I think of the club as a business. If you are constantly making losses in any business, it is not sustainable. Chelsea are debt-free, because of Abramovich. He constantly funnels money into the club for investment. United lost quite a lot in the past few months, our stocks lost value on the NYSE due to our results. Once we allow Moyes to create a team in his own image by giving him time, we'll be back on track. If Chelsea is doing the same as United in terms of their academy, how do you explain Matic? Younger players aren't really given a proper chance. The only player to have come out of your academy in the starting 11 is Terry. The other one was Bertrand not too long ago, but he plays for Villa now I think. We have Evans, Cleverley, Welbeck, Fletcher and Giggs. Furthermore, the whole luck BS isn't even a legitimate argument, because I can flip it back and say well "Chelsea were lucky to have Abramovich" for their success in the past decade. United have a history of developing youth players. A few years ago Chelsea were buying players like Shevchenko, Ballack, Deco, Malouda, Pizzaro, Crespo and now they seem like their whole philosophy has changed to buying relatively younger players like Mata, Hazard, Oscar, etc. I wonder where they got that idea? 10 years has already passed. "Hey One day we will get there too", I doubt it...

Funny how United and Arsenal fans always have to bring up Chelsea's finances when a Chelsea supporters says something about ManU or Arsenal, it's getting really boring and annoying at this point. As if your club hadn't spent a big amount of money in the past years. So just think of something new or just care about your own club instead of whining and writing essay-long texts on the internet that no ones going to read anyway. thanks

must ignore...

so? *nose picking*

@JuanMata10, And criticizing Moyes isn't getting old? "This means nothing in the next seasons if united are still **** :)" and "is Moyes right man to spend it wisely ?"<---these were two shots directly taken towards United and Moyes by Chelsea supporters in this thread. Go home kid.

Have to agree with @TheGame on this one. +1

No, United arent in decline, they are in transition and dont have any economical problem, nobody took their main players, and it counts in communication. They just bought Mata and with the summe transfer market they will be very busy, top 4 next year for sure.
Decline is the desperate position of big clubs that needs to sell their best players to survive and find cheap replacements and many bargains...
United can attract many world class players, they dont have any problem of attractivity and the League is the most viewed in the world.