Manchester United staff are rebelling against INEOS after seeing more job cuts announced, with CEO Omar Berrada asked: "Why don’t you take a £1m cut?"
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Controversial cost-cutting measures put in placeMore redundancies on the cards at Old TraffordPlayers and board members told to cut their payFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱Getty ImagesWHAT HAPPENED?
Controversial money-saving measures have been put in place since Sir Jim Ratcliffe – Britain’s richest man – completed his purchase of a 27.7 per cent stake in the Red Devils back in February 2024.
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Results on the field have remained disappointing, despite reaching the Europa League semi-finals, and questions continue to be asked of what those pulling the strings are doing in order to deliver a reversal in fortune.
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Ratcliffe and Co remain focused on cost-cutting behind the scenes, with a further 200 positions set to go. Staff at United’s Carrington training complex have been informed that they will form part of that redundancy wave.
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Berrada was charged with the task of delivering that news and found himself in the firing line. A source has told : "Everything has changed since INEOS came in – and not for the better.
"Berrada stood in front of everybody at the academy and said we had to do it. But someone stood up and told him 'you said six months ago that we had to lose 250 jobs but this would be it.
"Now six months later we’re losing another 200 people. What’s to say in six months’ time it won’t be happening again?’ A couple of months ago we got the email about lunches being ended and Berrarda told us it would save £1m a year.
"But someone piped up ‘hang on a minute – that’s one month’s wages for Casemiro; you’re on £4m a year, so why don’t you take a £1m cut?’ The mood is really not good. It’s got to the point where people are choosing not to go to the training ground unless they have to be there."
