Manchester United to pay Malcolm Glazer’s six children £15m every year

The six children of Malcolm Glazer who own Manchester United will be paid more than £15m every year from the club after it was announced that there will be a dividend to shareholders.

The five sons and one daughter of the late Malcolm Glazer – Avram, Joel, Kevin, Bryan and Edward Glazer, and their sister, Darcie Glazer Kassewitz – will be paid $3.9m (£2.5m) each annually as the majority shareholders of Manchester United plc, the United holding company registered in the Cayman Islands and floated on the New York stock exchange.

In the 2014-15 accounts of Manchester United plc, whose financial highlights were disclosed on Thursday, the company announced it will pay a dividend of $0.045 (£0.03) every quarter, for each share owned by a shareholder.

The Glazer siblings together own approximately 131m shares, 80% of the total issued, according to a spokesman for the club. That means every three months, they will be paid $5.9m (£3.8m) in total. Annually, the payment of that dividend four times, each quarter, adds up to $23.6m (£15.2m) altogether to be paid to the Glazer siblings – $3.9m (£2.5m) each.

The decision to pay the dividend, the first since the Glazer family floated the club on the New York stock exchange in 2012, was, the company said, made by the board, on which all six of the Glazer siblings sit.