Personally I don't see how FSG and fan ownership could co-exist. As far as I can tell FSG is an investment fund in which rich people hand over their cash and let JWH and Werner make all the decisions. The members of FSG aren't interested in making decisions they are just silent partners with JWH and Werner according to reports having the only voting rights.
The members of FSG are interested in making a long term business investment in which they expect JWH and Werner to grow the business and in the process make their investment more worthwhile.
As a fan I certainly wouldn't be interested in putting money into the business without any representation or any say in what happens. Likewise I couldn't see the investors in FSG allowing a situation to occur in which they have no say over what happens but a group of fans in one of the businesses that comes under the FSG umbrella do.
To paraphrase why would we agree to taxation without representation. The fans wouldn't be looking for a long term investment they would be looking to have a stake in the Club and a say in how it was run. As much as I would love to see it I really cannot see fan ownership working whilst FSG own the Club.
have you looked at the Bayern model? Some of the biggest hitters in the German/European economy are on the board but its a fans owned club.
we had 6000 small share holders under Moores who had little to no say in the running of the club - I'm not proposing a similar model because thats far too exclusive a set up but the idea remains that being a part of the club is a powerful idriver.
Once set up how that fan ownership is excercised is the key, Barca do it by proxy they elect a president and empower that individual to act on their manifesto, Bayern have their board structure, we could and would I hop have our own model one more representative of the socialist traditions of the club
If by fan ownership though you are looking for a fan council/committee running the show, crossing t's and dotting i's and second guessing everything from a position of distrust and paranoia - for me thats just a recipe for disaster - it would somehow need to be united be a strong lead - it would take time and the time and experience needed would more than likely see it fail - not out of any lack of intelligence or high intentions - we saw how quickly things can go south an dit'd take a long time to bed in.
the only way a global business is going to work is with top level business acumen - that would mean empowering people with top busines acument to lead the show - the role of the fans would be to provide the continuity of ownership - a referral point on key strategic decisions - there would have to be clear Board level representation but not leadership.
in terms of fsg then at the moment the fans council just looks like a market research group - no real role other than comms - there is no reason that could n't be extended though to at first a non exec role and then if it proves its worth to a full voting role but even then you'd be talking about an elected rep not 20 odd people - and that elected rep is going to need to be savvy - fsg's ethos is supposed to be management by consensus - identify top people get them pointed in the same directiona nd achieve more than teh sum of their parts - I dont see why fans are excluded from that
I dont think it will happen, I just dont think it can't happen.