He’s probably there to take the stick from the fans and get a move on in terms of government clearances/funding etc for the stadium.
There’s absolutely no way that the UK government should countenance spending money for a stadium for a club when they’ve given another club in the same city a stadium. But Ratcliffe didn’t get to where he is without knowing the persons in power.
Sir Jim fucking over working class Mancunians again:
What did I say about the P45 for the tea lady 
I could think of 11 redundancies straightaway…
If I was a Utd fan my blood would be running cold at the Ineos comments in response to this. They signed a contract. They had a legal commitment to pay the NZRU and as soon as they found themselves in a less strong financial position tried to reneg on the deal they freely made. They are now crticizing the NZRU for not working to come to a “managed settlement.” Bitch, the only offer I’ll accept is the amount you agreed to pay us.
Having worked for Ineos you know the man is Stunt.
I’m wondering how many fucking people they have on the books to be able to keep punting them on this scale and still keep the lights on.
Also, even if the people he is cutting are valued at 70k each (inclusive of on-costs), he’s hardly putting a dent in £300m.
Is it too much to hope for a Gordon Gecko style liquidation?
Blue horseshoe loves Anacott Steel.
I would assume it’s pretty fucked up because none of this will cut into the finance fair play stuff.
This is turn over off the pitch, feels a bit Hicks and Gillet.
Banter aside, the comparison to what FSG accomplished in the first few years of owning LFC to what is happening at ManU is quite striking. I simply don’t recall anything like the petty cost-cutting as the finances were turned around. FSG came in with a clear capital plan, not necessarily to the satisfaction of every fan, but deployed the capital needed to cover a difficult transition without the sort of performative silliness seen at ManU.
The Glazers have sucked out something like £800 million from ManU. They could have rebuilt OT for that.
FSG put some debt on the stadium to help rebuild, but I think every pence generated has been reinvested back into the club.
The first (and primary) area FSG looked at was player contracts, and just getting us to a position ASAP where the players we had were worth what we were paying them (so guys like Joe Cole had to go)… you could argue that’s the one area the Glazers and INEOS seem to be ignoring completely in favour of penny-pinching everywhere else
I love it when you talk dirty.
I think the penny may have dropped there somewhat. See how eager they have been to move Antony and Rashford on this window (albeit on loan). Might also play into their decision over letting Garnacho leave if they get a good offer.
Still plenty draining the coffers there.
It is sort of beautiful to see them doing ‘Year 1’ stuff 12 years on.
Spelling mistake there.
And also an error in the number.
