INEOS are not leaving any stones unturned in their bid to change the system at Manchester United following the start of their era as the owners of the club’s football structure.
Player changes, managerial changes and changes in administration are currently underway with Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his trusted team running the gauntlet on all they met at the club following their billion-pound investment in the club.
The wave of change has hit the club staff with loads of jobs now at risk. The employees in question found this out during the club’s preparations for their US pre-season tour and this has led to mass hysteria at the club.
Jim Ratcliffe intends to cut down the staff numbers by 250 before they return from the trip, with some of them having already been fired. It is clear that a good number of those who have flown to the US with the club are currently performing their last tasks, which has led to anger and hurt among the workers, who are worried about the safety of their jobs.
It has also led to a bit of redundancy, which Sir Alex Ferguson’s former right-hand man, Rene Meulensteen, has decried. “It was just a big, big family. It was a massive club that was growing year on, year on, with the greatest manager that England has ever seen at the head of it,” Meulensteen said to the Manchester Evening News.
“It never lost its warmth. If I had people over to visit and they watched training, they were all in awe at how wonderful it was, and how welcoming everyone was, and how friendly it all was. That apparently has all gone out the window. You hear that so many people have lost their jobs.”
“Sir Alex was there 26 years and had people who had been with him for 20 years, 22 years, 23 years. They were all there for a long time and I imagine now there’ll be people who will have to leave their jobs after being with the club for a long time. I don’t know the reasons behind it, but it needs some justification.”
Many staff have blamed the club’s wastage on signings in the past before INEOS’ coming as the reasons for the club’s high operating cost and spending, rather than the staff welfare which INEOS are looking to cut as part of their cost-cutting scheme going forward.
It is estimated the job cuts, which is being overseen by Interpath Advisory, a consultancy firm, will save United around £10 million going forward.
