Bitter rivals united in strife

MANCHESTER UNITED and Liverpool may always be divided on the pitch – but according to worried anti-Glazer Red Devils fans the north-west giants are welded together off it.

After watching their great rivals get plunged into turmoil by financial strife encountered under American owners, United appear to be in a worryingly similar position themselves.

While sources close to the Malcolm Glazer family continue to insist there is no cause for alarm, the mere mention of United’s Carrington training complex, or the iconic Old Trafford having to be sold off and leased back, as highlighted in the documents championing the launch of a £500 million (€566m) bond issue, has been enough to set alarm bells ringing.