Manchester United’s fans’ share scheme in deadlock a year after being proposed

• Club announced plan in wake of Super League protests
• Negotiations with supporters trust hits sensitive stage

Manchester United’s proposed fan share scheme is at a critical juncture with there no guarantee it will go ahead.

United co-chairman Joel Glazer announced the move last May in the wake of supporter protests – a group of about 100 broke into Old Trafford causing the Premier Leaguer fixture with Liverpool later that day to be postponed – about the Glazer family’s ownership of the club, which were ignited by United’s decision to join the short-lived European Super League in April. Glazer hoped that the prospect of United fans owning shares in the club would be in place for the start of this season yet that did not occur and as the one-year anniversary of the Super League’s collapse approaches, it remains, at best, a work in progress.

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