24 Feb 2025 16:03:47
250 more Jobs lost and no more free lunch for staff at the club. Tumbleweed thinks this is great but I think its beyond disgusting.

1.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 17:04:06
Does your employer provide you with a free lunch?

{Ed025's Note - are you defending SJR,s decisions here Fizz?, a multi Billionaire sacking people who are on buttons is not a good look imo mate..

2.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 18:06:53
Sounds like sjr has a lot of apologists on here.

3.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 18:10:23
Personally I think the billionaire is right to lay off a load of low paid workers. The club needs to balance the books after he paid Newcastle a few million for their sporting director only to sack him after four months, and pay him compensation for the privilege. It’s just good business.

4.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 17:53:40
No 25 I’m not ‘defending’ him. It was a straight forward question because I doubt many employees are given a free lunch. That said, if it’s a benefit that’s been enjoyed for years then, unless a recompense is made within their wages, it does seem a tad petty. But at the end of the day it’s a business and the club is haemorrhaging money so savings must be made. I fully understand that the major earners are untouched at the moment but that is being addressed by shipping players out. I guess that will continue and the wages of incoming players will be likewise addressed.

{Ed025's Note - i can live with the top brass and players wages getting cut Fizz, but the low earners...those on the breadline..is just petty for me mate, will employees having an odd hamburger really impact a club of United,s magnitude?, i would have hoped a massive cub like yours could absorb that, i dont like the way they are going about their business to be honest and expected better..

5.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 17:55:49
We are in a terrible place financially. There will be a lot sales this summer academy players and first team players. we are not going to have european football next year, its all part of preparing for some lean times.

6.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 18:34:14
I feel that the club staff did need trimming down somewhat, especially if you look at how many people we employed (about 1100 or so apparently) compared to the likes of City etc (about 500-600).

I’m not sure why we have/ had about 500 extra employees compared to other clubs and I’m not sure if all are/ were needed. However it doesn’t look good on Ineos/ SJR even if they weren’t really needed.

That said, the issues were created by the useless w*nkers who still own the majority of the club and who SJR saved by giving them a billion plus pounds. They now don’t need to sell for a looooooong time, if ever, and he looks like a tw*t and is the face of all the bad shi*t that is going on. Not quite sure what he gets out of all of this tbh.

{Ed025's Note - you will have more staff because you have more supporters and sell more merchandise than other clubs Brendan, all a bit trivial for me mate..

7.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 18:44:05
I think it is disgusting. They should have worked harder to move players on. Lindelof got a 1 year extension last year and now Maguire has been given the same extension.

Allowing those two to leave would have saved the club some money and would have reduced the cost saving measured and perhaps the redundancies.

Other clubs aren't doing this. It really is a case of him being an absolute person. A right Ramsey Bolton.

{Ed025's Note - i think i would prefer Ramsey Bolton at my club than SJR MH, one is a tyrannical Egotistical Arsehole...the other was in Game OF Thrones mate.. :)

8.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 18:45:38
It's a working class club, born of the back of working class people. The only reason that SJR has the privilege of owning a part of this fantastic historical club is because a group of working class railway workers decided to put together a club.

We were told 250 max would be laid off, now we are looking at 450. Whatever about the mistakes of the past, SJR made a 5 million pound mistake when hiring then firing Ashworth. And the hole won't even be filled with the redundancies or ticket rises.

The working class pay for the mistakes of the top brass and it will never change.

F Ratcliffe and F the glazers. Scumbags the lot of them.

My heart goes out ot the hundreds of good hard working people losing their jobs.

{Ed025's Note - a man after my own heart Angel..

9.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 19:00:32
I get we have a lot of supporters, well for now anyway, but that doesn’t equate to 500 extra staff.

I’m not defending what is happening as I don’t have all of the details, but it does seem like we were overstaffed when looking at the numbers.

However it looks awful for the club.

{Ed025's Note - it just like this so called Labour Government picking on the poor old pensioners while leaving all the fat cats to receive their multi million pound bonuses Brendan..

10.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 19:12:12
i think we may live to rue the day the charmless sir skint ratcliffe came through the door - If I were Berrada or Wilcox i would be asking myself if I want to be associated with this walloper.

11.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 19:13:16
As I have said before, the whole essence of the club has been eroded, it doesn't feel like my club any more.

{Ed025's Note - spot on AJH..

12.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 19:19:54
I hear you Ed, I really do, and I don’t think 400+ redundancies is needed or right, however we have lost money for the past 5 years so things are going to happen. If people had jobs just for the sake of having jobs but adding nothing to the club then I get it, but that can’t be 400+ people.

But for the Glazers, their debt and the rubbish running of the club this wouldn’t be needed. Ineos have now jumped into bed with them and will rightly get a lot of sh*t for that.

I just hope that the useless players, who have more to answer for than the regular low paid employees, get the same treatment.

{Ed025's Note - lets hope you are right mate..

13.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 19:54:36
My feelings too. mufc died as we knew it.

14.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 19:57:20
AJH I agree that it definitely feels like the essnce of the club has eroded, however I would argue that this has happened over a long period and is as much the changing of football in general whether the rules, ownership and cost as anything.

I am saddened that we are making job cuts however in any business and unfortunately it is a business, if it is being run at an inflated level then cuts will be made. It does feel like a symptom of us not evolving into a modern football club. If we had been run properly and modernised we would probably be at the same position but the reduced job levels would have occured organically over the past 5/ 10 years.

I have no idea if Ineos will work long term and when the Glazers will finally do on having robbed the club blind. I just hope that over time we will rid ourselves of the massive over spend on players including salaries and we can eventually stand on our income.

15.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 20:02:09
But we still overpay for players and give them ridiculous wages. They could all take a 1% cut and it would cover all the low hanging fruit that SJR is going after. I would bet there are far too many well paid people around the club than are needed.

{Ed025's Note - you can bet your life on it KEEFY..

16.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 20:26:27
Spot on Angel.

The Glazers have destroyed our Club but Ineos are destroying its soul. If there is a way back, it’s hard to see at the moment.

The irony of our plight should not be lost on anyone. It will be the poorest paid employees and the supporters made to pay the highest price for the incompetence and arrogance of billionaires.

{Ed025's Note - how right you are DLIB..

17.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 20:32:46
In fairness the highest earning players are being moved on too. I feel for the people losing their jobs but I also believe the club is completely inefficient. It's a straw man argument to say that cuts aren't needed in one place because there's another place that needs them more severely.
I think SJR and his crew exhibit some of the classic right wing Tory tendencies that I don't like but I'm not going to pretend that I know they aren't necessary. What I'm sure if though is that if these cuts don't have a material difference to our performance - both playing and financial - by this time next year, then I'll be calling for their heads too. It is far too early to take that position now.

18.) 24 Feb 2025
24 Feb 2025 21:53:42
The club should be serving the people, providing work locally but now it's just a brand with no care for the local people. In fact it might as well sell the name Manchester while it's at it.

19.) 25 Feb 2025
25 Feb 2025 01:29:32
Who has said the people losing their jobs are the lowest paid and on the breadline? That’s not the story I’m getting from inside the club at all but I guess it’s an easy narrative.

20.) 27 Feb 2025
25 Feb 2025 18:57:38
Maybe if the likes of casemiro had departed, these jobs may have been saved. I doubt sjr wanted to cut low laid jobs, but he has inherited what he has inherited, now he has to play his best hand at every turn.