Shortly before the 2.30 pm on Monday, hundreds of worried personnel appeared to the Manchester suite in Old Trafford to listen about the last threat to their work.
The employees who had survived the initial round of 250 layoffs under Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS last year again faced another sacrifice that will see up to 200 more cuts to the Manchester United workforce.
It was said that some stayed in an emotional state after they were told that they will learn their destination in April, which means another month of discomfort and uncertainty.
The gloomy news was delivered by Executive President Omar Berrada, who apologized for spreading even more sadness, but explained that other higher clubs had been much more successful than together with a smaller staff.
Berrada talked about the importance of making United is profitable after five years of losses and referred to project 150, the Bold Plan to make the Club Premier League champions again 2028.
He presented Marc Armstrong, who began working as a business director on Monday after changing Paris Saint-Germain. The new United Executive did not speak, which was perhaps a wise movement in the circumstances.
Manchester United announced on Monday how they plan to do another 200 layoffs
Bring the total number of redundancies from the partial acquisition of Sir Jim Ratcliffe up to 450
The gloomy news was delivered by Executive President Omar Berrada, who apologized for further spreading sadness, but urged to make the man be profitable after five years of losses.
The staff listened to the director of Human Resources, Annie Hale, and the financial director Roger Bell, since the painful reality of the club's position was explained.
Those fortunate enough to survive the latest cuts have been told that some staff members will move to the Carrington Training Field, and anyone who stays to work at Old Trafford will no longer benefit from the free lunches of the canteen of the canteen . Instead, they will offer fruits next week.
“It was the only benefit that remained,” complained a personnel member who revealed that free meals on Mondays were generally composed of leftover food from the day that weekend anyway.
Meanwhile, Carrington headquarters will continue eating the same menu for the rest of the season, but will not have the same lunch options as summer players and coaches in the middle of the reports that they must be satisfied with the soup and The sandwiches.
At Monday's meeting, pastels and fried potatoes were made available with water jugs and plastic vessels. Too much for the great English football speakers.
This has been a humiliating attention call for United, since Ineos has begun to clarify a disaster created by two decades owned by the Glazer family.
There are little doubt that the personnel of 1,100 people from United was swollen, but the bitterness and resentment between the range and the file is that they are paying the price for the errors that are made much higher in the chain of command.
Compared to the obscene waste of money in the club in recent years, the £ 1 million saved by discarding staff lunch is a fall in the ocean.
Those who are lucky to survive the latest cuts have been told that some staff members will move to the Carrington training field, where they will not have the same lunch options as the players.
Cakes and fries were available along with water jugs and plastic vessels at the meeting
Last week, United's financial results showed that interest payments in the leverage acquisition of the Glazers have now exceeded 1 billion, while United must be 391 million in transfer fees.
Of the £ 14.5m paid in compensation to the football personnel dismissed by Ratcliffe, there was an invoice of £ 4.1 million for Dan Ashworth, who lasted 159 days as a sports director and has already found work at Warwickshire Cricket Club as an independent consultant.
On Monday, the Manchester United supporter trust published a new analysis of the results that, according to them, shows that interest payments on United debt will increase to £ 50 million a year in 2027.
He also indicated that the amount owed in transfers has increased by £ 52 million in the last 12 months with £ 211 million expired this year.
Asking the club to resist ticket prices, it must say: 'The Glazers debt mountain is the original sin in the recent Decline of Manchester United. The only way to get out of this is that the owners invest their own money, reducing debt and interest payments. '
Until then, it seems that the staff will continue to feel the squeeze caused by a combination of erroneous management and failure in the field.
As soon as Chief coach Ruben Amorim acknowledged that Link a few days ago: “People are losing their jobs, so we have to recognize that and the biggest problem is football”, that Casemiro gave an interview insisting that he does not have Hurry to leave old trafford and destroy a contract of £ 375.00 per week that is still 16 months to work.
Imagine how many lunches I would buy. There is bitter irony about the fact that money saved by employment cuts will be reinvested in the first team, as if it had no longer swallowed enough from the cake.
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It is not surprising then that Morality in United has reached its lowest point. The staff was fired from the Manchester suite on Monday with another warning that the escape of details of the meeting was a sacble crime.
When many had even reached their cars, the club had already issued a press release.