Gold Coast United coach Miron Bleiberg has defended controversial owner Clive Palmer's hands-on approach which has negatively affected his disgruntled players.

While the FFA denied they were underwriting United's home games after they scrapped their cost-saving crowd cap, Bleiberg on Tuesday went into bat for billionaire Palmer.

The iron ore baron admitted he knew little about soccer before gaining the A-League licence of the expansion club last year but is now influentially involved in all facets of the organisation.

A-League boss Archie Fraser has said Palmer's fan-alienating cap and other off-field battles were affecting United's players, while skipper Jason Culina admitted as much after Saturday night's 2-0 upset loss to North Queensland.

Culina told The World Game website the once high-flying team had found it hard to be motivated and focused on their jobs due to the worrying external issues.

But Bleiberg felt the Coast's fans and players alike should be grateful for their wealthy chairman's heavy involvement.

"If there was no Clive Palmer there'd be no team on the Gold Coast and we wouldn't be standing here," he told reporters on the Gold Coast.

"If there was no Clive Palmer we wouldn't have assembled this good squad, and I wouldn't have a job.

"Do you expect me to publicly tell Clive Palmer what to do? I don't think so."

Bleiberg said he shared an "excellent relationship" with Palmer, valued at $5.5 billion.

"My message to the players is that ... we can't have a better benefactor than Clive Palmer security wise and luxury wise," he said.

"For the fans everything will go your way from structuring prices or whatever so come and support us, you have a beautiful team, a great bunch of boys - average coach - but come and do the job."

"I can tell you that yesterday we had lunch with Clive Palmer - brilliant - good steaks, very expensive, and he paid."

Football Federation Australia is expected to announce a reduction in ticket prices at Skilled Park in the next 48 hours after striking a deal to assist United with their marketing and ticketing.

The deal to ditch the cap came three days after Palmer said the crowd limiting measure, which he claimed saved him $100,000 each home game, was attacking the A-League attendance problems head-on.

While A-League officials believe the costs for a transport levy and stadium staff were closer to $20,000, the Gold Coast Bulletin reported on Tuesday the FFA would now underwrite all Skilled Park losses.

But the governing body and Gold Coast chief executive Clive Mensink denied the FFA would wear all the losses, starting with Saturday night's clash with competition leaders Sydney FC.

"There's no underwriting going on it's more of a work in progress and getting the best result for the whole community and the fans," Mensink said.

Mensink refused to be drawn on questions about what damage the issue has done to the club.

"We've drawn a line in the sand and we're moving on."