Barely a couple of weeks pass without another company that is classed as a luxury brand being linked to a listing in Asia.

This is the latest in a long line of stories linking the Glazers to a partial or full sale of the club.

There are many more miles to be travelled before this deal rides off into the sunset.

Small numbers of today's dotcom equivalents are profitable, but at least they actually have revenues.

If you were only to measure global M&A activity by news headlines, then the first half of 2011 would lead you to believe that everything is very rosy in the M&A garden.