Glazer set to hike Man U ticket prices

MANCHESTER United’s new owner Malcolm Glazer is set to hike ticket prices by more than 50% over the next five years.

Mr Glazer also intends freezing the annual budget for transfers to €37 million - less than United spent on buying one player, Wayne Rooney, from Everton last year. Some more cash will be available if the club urgently needs to buy, however.

The cost of seeing United at Old Trafford will rise from its current price of almost €45 to €65 by 2010, it emerged yesterday.