Fenway Sports Group put Liverpool up for sale earlier this month and just 17 days later the Glazer family placed Manchester United on the market. England's biggest clubs are currently both available for purchase and that is unprecedented.
FSG and the Glazers will make eyewatering profits on the sales of the clubs they respectively own and that suggests their dystopian American dream is very much alive and well. Liverpool's John W. Henry and the Glazers might be dreaming of making an extraordinary profit on their original investments, but the supporters of their clubs are dreaming of a future without their American custodians.
The Glazers became majority shareholders at Old Trafford in 2005, with their leveraged buyout financed primarily through loans secured against the club's assets, and supporters have been dreaming of their departure since.
