Makes you wonder why Ineos bought it in the first place if it was in such a mess they need to let 450 staff go in a year. Ineos don't even own the whole thing with Glazers still in the background. They are shockingly bad at the moment I can't see letting go another 200 people making it any nicer for the players to come to work so morale isn't going to get any better.
In fairness, all professional football clubs are businesses. Let's not fool ourselves. Man U are now being run like a branch of Poundland whose local manager has just received a memo from the accountants at HQ that she needs to reduce overheads by 50% regardless of any increased sales because the Finance Director is an adherent of some latest wheeze being taught on MBA courses. I dunno how much this is supposed to trim off the overall bill, but here's the epitome of the problem - Casemiro on £350k a week. And that is Utd since SAF left - they've tried to buy themselves out of their rut (especially on wages, never mind fees), like a drunk standing by a casino wheel buying more and more chips. Now the drunk has gone home, sobered up and sold all his possessions off to fund going back to the casino and trying again tonight. Nuts.
The lack of success is their issue, and they won't solve it by shedding a few low-wage workers. It's the result of living for decades with a high level of debt only sustainable by their ongoing success rate on the pitch. It's taken a few years for the inertia to wear off, but now it's beginning to tell. From the outside it looks like an unholy mess tbh - take note all of those who have compared their spending to ours and clamoured for us to compete.
Not one part of that they have done will save the money they will spend to pay off amorim. It's penny wise and pound foolish.
Manchester City have been given nightmare 130 new charges are going to get points deduction six times worse than Everton. Source: Mirror online.
So Man utd now remove free lunch from their staff. In other news thry triggered the option in maguires contract to keep paying him 180k (and 250k a week if the won the europa as they would be in cl) so they are paying thst guy more next year than it would take to pay the stsff they are sacking amd starving. Other bright ideas. 1. Gave ten haag a new deal after wanting to sack him before a fluke fa cup win. Then sack the guy after a few more games and another massive outlay on **** players. 2. Buying de ligt who is the Dutch maguire and as mobile as a tanker then paying him 200k a week as well. 3. Buying zirkzee and paying him 130k a week. The lad is not worth 2p. 4. Treating rashford like dirt then refusing to sell and then loaning him to a rival while paying his wages. If utd were broke surely they'd start getting rid of players like maguire.not resigning him up again.
Gary Neville at Valencia after 16 league games: 3 wins, 5 draws, 8 losses. Ruben Amorim at Man Utd after 15 league games: 4 wins, 3 draws, 8 losses. Neville was sacked after his run of results.
Didn't Neville say something like - give Amorim one training session with the team and he'll sort it out? I don't watch them so have no idea what they look like under him. Are his tactics too rigid ie the reason we passed on him?
Funny thing is, all the cuts they've made are all to save about £1m. Which is just over 3 weeks wages for Casimiro. It's not the background people that are losing them money, it's the useless ****ers on the pitch they over pay.
Valencia were a big club with massive debts and Spain doesn't allow you to clear those debts unless you are one of the big two. They have been absolutely hamstrung for years upon years.
Amorim walked in to this opportunity looking at the wages offer not the players being handed to him. He's absolutely blown his career imo and he's now either headed back to Portugal to recover or he's going to be the next wolves manager or whatever. Anyone looking at that team should know it's not a 343 set up and needed several pkayers to do thst. As he has refused to even consider a back 4 he will only get the sack.
