HomeUnited Kingdom[The Athletic] Manchester United today told staff that the club is intending to cut 250 jobs as new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe continues his bid to slash costs at Old Trafford.
[The Athletic] Manchester United today told staff that the club is intending to cut 250 jobs as new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe continues his bid to slash costs at Old Trafford.
July 3, 2024
[The Athletic] Manchester United today told staff that the club is intending to cut 250 jobs as new co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe continues his bid to slash costs at Old Trafford.
by JaysonDeflatum
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To give some context United have a massively bloated employee structure, even after cutting 250 people we’d still be 2nd in the list for most just behind Liverpool and just above Chelsea. This was necessary but unfortunate.
Ashworth didn’t come cheap.
Psychopathic capitalist Jim Radcliffe is an horrendous human being.
It’s sad that so many people will lose their job, however these numbers explain why Ineos are doing it:
At 1,112 as of June 30 last year, United had by far the biggest staff of any club in the Premier League. That number is considerably higher than all of their Big Six rivals, with Liverpool having around 1,005 employees, Chelsea 788, Tottenham 719, Arsenal 649 and Manchester City 520, according to each club’s latest figures.
And still paying Rashford ~£300 000/week…
Instead of overpaying your players and firing or cutting your staff’s salaries, maybe do the opposite.
I’m sure the players have a bigger cushion than the staff.
RTO mandate didn’t work as well as that wonderful human being wanted then
Cuts in the name of cost efficiencies from the same Ineos which chartered 3 separate private jets to fly 3 executives to tell Ten Hag he wasn’t being sacked. Truly tory tory Man United
cheap club
Who combined earn less than a years salary of many of the United players.
Oh how the mighty have fallen…
makes you wonder how much of those people’s yearly salary are the equivalent of spending £350k a week for Jaden Sancho to sit at home playing FIFA and wanking into his enormous pile of money
So around 25% of the staff are going to lose their jobs?
That’s an insane number – especially when you know it’s not going to include a single one of the top earners (players, coaches, boardroom staff, executive etc) at the club
How the mighty have fallen. They’re being cheap just like their bid for Branthwaite.
Remember when United fans slated Liverpool for furloughing staff during Covid?
Let’s blame Everton though. Rumour has it that Richard Masters is looking into point deductions for refusing to sell players on the cheap to the big lads.
Quickest turn around from claiming remote work was a culture/production issue to now plainly just being honest they want to cut jobs.
(Liverpool fan) Understandable, I remember when OGS was on Stick to football with GNev etc he was saying about how they’d have loads of scouts and had to go through loads of ppl internally to sanction a transfer. I could tell he was a bit pissed off when he mentioned that.
Doing this kills the waiting time for a decision to be made, such as work on the stadium and training ground and transfers, the less people the better.
I mean quit overpaying for players and you won’t have to fire the staff who are just trying to put food on the table
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To give some context United have a massively bloated employee structure, even after cutting 250 people we’d still be 2nd in the list for most just behind Liverpool and just above Chelsea. This was necessary but unfortunate.
Ashworth didn’t come cheap.
Psychopathic capitalist Jim Radcliffe is an horrendous human being.
It’s sad that so many people will lose their job, however these numbers explain why Ineos are doing it:
At 1,112 as of June 30 last year, United had by far the biggest staff of any club in the Premier League. That number is considerably higher than all of their Big Six rivals, with Liverpool having around 1,005 employees, Chelsea 788, Tottenham 719, Arsenal 649 and Manchester City 520, according to each club’s latest figures.
And still paying Rashford ~£300 000/week…
Instead of overpaying your players and firing or cutting your staff’s salaries, maybe do the opposite.
I’m sure the players have a bigger cushion than the staff.
RTO mandate didn’t work as well as that wonderful human being wanted then
Cuts in the name of cost efficiencies from the same Ineos which chartered 3 separate private jets to fly 3 executives to tell Ten Hag he wasn’t being sacked. Truly tory tory Man United
cheap club
Who combined earn less than a years salary of many of the United players.
Oh how the mighty have fallen…
makes you wonder how much of those people’s yearly salary are the equivalent of spending £350k a week for Jaden Sancho to sit at home playing FIFA and wanking into his enormous pile of money
So around 25% of the staff are going to lose their jobs?
That’s an insane number – especially when you know it’s not going to include a single one of the top earners (players, coaches, boardroom staff, executive etc) at the club
How the mighty have fallen. They’re being cheap just like their bid for Branthwaite.
Remember when United fans slated Liverpool for furloughing staff during Covid?
Let’s blame Everton though. Rumour has it that Richard Masters is looking into point deductions for refusing to sell players on the cheap to the big lads.
Quickest turn around from claiming remote work was a culture/production issue to now plainly just being honest they want to cut jobs.
(Liverpool fan) Understandable, I remember when OGS was on Stick to football with GNev etc he was saying about how they’d have loads of scouts and had to go through loads of ppl internally to sanction a transfer. I could tell he was a bit pissed off when he mentioned that.
Doing this kills the waiting time for a decision to be made, such as work on the stadium and training ground and transfers, the less people the better.
I mean quit overpaying for players and you won’t have to fire the staff who are just trying to put food on the table