Manchester United have announced that the company's Board of Directors are exploring strategic alternatives as they look to enhance the club's growth, one of which is a potential sale of the club. The news comes just a matter of weeks after it was announced that Fenway Sports Group (FSG) are open to selling Liverpool.
United fans have welcomed the announcement. Whilst supporters are fed up with the club still having to pay out huge sums of money from their own coffers on debt repayments - as opposed to the Glazer's investing their own money into the club - they're also frustrated by how distant the owners have been over the past 17 years.
Liverpool supporters have similarly been annoyed with the lack of investment in recent years, but because Jurgen Klopp has done such a good job on Merseyside for most of the past decade, protests have been kept to a minimum.
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Despite an evident lack of love between the two clubs' supporters and their respective ownership in recent years, both United and Liverpool have enjoyed successful periods under the Glazer's and FSG, respectively.
United won five Premier League titles in seven seasons between 2007-2013, but their downfall began after Sir Alex Ferguson's departed Old Trafford. Meanwhile, Liverpool have won several major honours since FSG took over the club in 2010, including a UEFA Champions League and Premier League title.
Nevertheless, it appears as though the Glazers and FSG are now actively pursuing other business opportunities. If that's indeed the case, Arsenal and Chelsea supporters, who've been assessing the two situations from afar, may be slightly concerned by the Americans' lack of empathy towards the football clubs they run.
The Kroenkes were unpopular at Arsenal for several years, but ever since there were mass protests outside the Emirates in 2021, they've been far more attentive to the supporters and their wishes.
Josh Kroenke (Stan Kroenke's son and heir to Kroenke Sports & Entertainment) in particular has made it clear that the family do in fact care about the club and its success, diminishing the notion that the project is just a business to them.
In addition to attending regular fan forums, Kroenke is often present at the training ground as well as matchdays. The ownership have also backed the Gunners in the transfer market since the protests, whilst they've also shown tremendous faith in manager Mikel Arteta and sporting director Edu, who've helped transform the mentality at the club in recent seasons.
Meanwhile, Todd Boehly is undertaking the difficult task of following up Roman Abramovich, who helped Chelsea win 19 major trophies between 2003-2022. Like Kroenke, he's actively involved in proceedings and sporting decisions at Stamford Bridge. His project is very much at its beginning, though.
Arsenal and Chelsea supporters will ultimately just be hoping that their owners continue to be involved for the right reasons, or it could take a turn for the worse, like it has at Liverpool and United.
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