Speculation regarding poor sales of Manchester United season tickets continues with news that the club is struggling to sell its executive and corporate packages as well as the standard season tickets.

Despite the club publicly stating they are happy with the level of sales so far, claiming that “Executive season ticket renewals are at the same level as this time last year and slightly up on two years ago”, Goal.com UK reports that there have been THREE crisis meetings at Old Trafford to discuss the issue.

This follows on from our report last week that with only a few days to go before the season ticket deadline, United had only managed to sell 18,000, less than a third of last season’s total.

As we said in that article, with tickets and match day revenue still the biggest earner for the club, these figures will make worrying reading for the Glazer family as they attempt to service debts of over £700 million and could, should they prove to be true, trigger the need to sell the club.

The Red Knight consortium will be watching on with interest.

Any sale of the business, however, will likely ruin the football club’s short term future on the pitch and United fans should brace themselves for dip in form, league position and entertainment to get what they want – new ownership and a more financially secure future.

Is it a price worth paying? If these ticket sales are anything to go by, the fans obviously think it is.