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Major Manchester United financial backer hits out at under-fire Glazers for causing 'reputational damage' with failed attempt to establish European Super League... and reveals details of his uneasy meeting with owners

One of Manchester United's biggest backers has criticised the club for inflicting 'reputational damage' in the wake of last month's foiled plan to establish a European Super League.

Nick Train, who manages the UK Equity Fund Lindsell Train, expressed alarm in face-to-face meetings with representatives of the controlling Glazer family as discontent over the proposals rumbles on.

Lindsell Train owns 27 per cent of United's New York-listed Class A shares, comprising around seven per cent of the club, while it also has a significant interest in Juventus, who are yet to extricate themselves from the breakaway, and Celtic.