Ratcliffe obviously isn't bothered by optics. However Man Utd had three times the number of staff, 1200, as Liverpool with 400. Massively overstaffed it would appear.
I'd be curious to see how that staff breaks down though as they have the largest stadium in the PL and the largest worldwide supporter base in the PL, so a lot of those staff (I would have thought) would be in media and communications, with the actual staffing of the stadium reasonably in line with other grounds proportional to their size. I think things like closing the staff canteen to cut out free lunches is just laughable. They could have 2400 staff and that would still be a drop in the ocean relative to player and executive wages.
If you mean the Qatari bloke interested in the summer I don't think his interest was of much substance. He kept missing deadlines to prove he had the funds and it seemed a big PR exercise for him.
I read some stuff about this recently. A lot of PL clubs are really pushing away regular season ticket holders because they know that tourists on day trips will pay more for a ticket and also spend more in the shops, and they'll fill the ground either way.
It never does. ****ers like him always frame it as a cost-cutting necessity to make redundancies for some of the lowest-paid staff or scrap insignificant expenses. Meanwhile, his salary won’t reduce, the Glazers will still be paying themselves with the interest from the debt and shareholders will continue to be paid dividends.
The Qatari bloke was looking at them around the time ineos bought the club and yea he'd probably been a much better option then ineos ( but who wouldn't ). But I ment the Saudi crown prince who was interested before he/the Saudi investment fund ended up supporting the Newcastle buyout, I think it was approx 2019/20. It didn't really go far and he distanced himself after the glazers made it clear they wouldn't sell to him. The club will just continue to decline under the current 2 terrible owners
Yeah, that's the cheapest...This talk of the government helping to finance a new stadium appears to be a potential waste of government money, maybe Labour think it will get them votes if they promise it, vis-a-vis, the Humber Bridge in the mid 1960s. Could be another white elephant. Are England going to transfer games from Wembley to OT?..Not on your nelly.
The government will fund no part of any new stadium, their potential involvement is only part-funding the commercial and residential regeneration scheme around the stadium.
Now that is interesting. I wonder if his name is up on the wooden boards in the assembly hall *cough* mine is *cough*
My nephew was at Bev Gram, not with Ratcliffe, but with Paul Robinson.. He's done okay for myself, seems to have got his feet under the desk at Radio 5, as a pundit. And he's pretty good. That's Paul Robinson, not my nephew.
Remember being in the press room during the PL era under Bruce and Man United had a small army of a media team.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ghliVpTLB17oG8J9UdLT4?si=c9f9c65843e043af From 24 mins Keiren Maguire gives good reasons why Man United had more staff than some clubs. For those saying "well they had a bloated workforce".
