Yet United manager Erik ten Hag has insisted there is “no way back” in abolishing VAR, while Liverpool are also understood to be supporting its continued use.
Ten Hag said: “I don’t think there is a way back. In principle it makes football more fair, but there are some problems, and I think we have to find the solutions to these problems, we have to make improvements.”
However, Premier League clubs face a fan revolt unless supporters are given a say over Wolves’ shock proposal ahead of a landmark vote on the issue.
It was fan power that last month saw Sweden, where top clubs are majority supporter owned, become the first country to refuse to adopt VAR.
Leading supporter groups have united to demand they are consulted about the resolution Wolves have forced the world’s richest league to include on the agenda at its annual general meeting (AGM) next month.
Rival teams have already told Telegraph Sport they will vote against the resolution but they are now being warned not to do so without first consulting their own fan groups.
Manchester United Supporters Trust spokesman Chris Rumfitt told Telegraph Sport: “VAR is widely disliked, especially amongst match-going fans who are the biggest losers from all the problems it creates. MUST is a democratic organisation and will be polling supporters to get their views. It is vital that Manchester United, and all clubs, listen to their supporters before they cast their vote on 6 June.”
Those sentiments were echoed by the chair of Liverpool’s Spirit of Shankly, Paul Khan, the Arsenal Supporters Trust’s Tim Payton and Manchester City Supporters Club general secretary Kevin Parker.
The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) added: “The FSA would encourage all clubs to engage with their supporters’ groups on important issues which affect the matchday experience – and VAR is certainly one of those. Credit to Wolves for doing so and it’d be great to see other clubs follow that lead ahead of June’s meeting.”
Wolves’s announcement prompted some supporters groups to poll their members on whether they wanted VAR scrapped, with the vast majority stating they did.
That included an FSA poll on X which found more than three-quarters of fans backed Wolves’s position, up from around two-thirds who were against VAR in its most recent National Supporters Survey published last June.
In a poll conducted by Telegraph Sport, more than 75 per cent of more than 3,000 readers had said scrapping VAR was a good idea by Thursday evening.