Sir Jim Ratcliffe can make all the cuts he wants and the newest includes the canteen of Manchester United.
It is understanding that lunch has been reduced to soup and sandwiches for all players of the first team and that includes coaches and analysts.
In the meantime, this month, FA Youth Cup 5-1 quarter-final victory over Chelsea, which was traditionally performed in Old Trafford, played in Leigh Sports Village for a saving of £ 8,000.
But the cutbacks that he is not concerned with the majority of the mob that has saved a point on Everton, but almost no pride despite the fact that he came back from a shortage with two goals created by Beto and Abdoulaye Doucoure.
Manager Ruben Amorim has already stated that he is in charge of the “worst” team in the history of United.
But against a revival of Toffees-Outfit inspired by former Red Devil's boss David Moyes and almost certainly a 93rd minute of fine victory rejected by a VAR call that Ratcliffe's no 2 Sir Dave Brailsford could describe as a 'marginal win', this was the worst of worst.
Bruno Fernandes and Manuel Ugarte produced Stunners to earn a point, but United, before Moyes was fired 11 years ago, were never so bad.
Plan A for Ratcliffe would be to dump most of them, if nothing else to save salary costs.
Because even half of the stunning almost £ 500 million transfer spending would not get back on the terrible starting side of Saturday.
But why would Casemiro, 33 years old and play like a midfield oap, go?
He is at £ 350,000 a week and has just stated that he wants to stay until his contract ends at the end of next season.
Of course he would say that. No Sane Club is going to touch this burnt-out wreck of a midfielder who has once glorified in five champions competitions, triumphs with Real Madrid.
Even the money people of the Saudi Pro League would not go somewhere to pay him that kind of money – and he knows for sure.
Striker Rasmus Hojlund cost a first £ 64 million and he can £ 85,000 a week until 2028 pants.
He just got the net in 16 consecutive performances, is entirely from his depth, and even a team of League One could doubt the payment of him even £ 5,000 a week.
The list of stars that earn money as ridiculous as that Spot-Kick intervention by Var Matt Donohue and referee Andy Madley's TV-Re-Play-Change-of-Mind will continue.
If a player illustrates the financial hold that Amorim's harvest of pretenders has about the club, then that is certainly Center-back Harry Maguire.
He, together with Matthijs de Ligt, was guilty of downing Ashley Young for what a stitched fine should have been.
But in 2023 he refused to reduce his weekly wage after West Ham had offered £ 20 million for him.
The former captain was on an extension of one year last month and is paid £ 195,000 a week.
But Maguire, 31, would have been gone 18 months ago – except that United refused to punch the £ 15 million that he would like to leave.
Ratcliffe, who invested £ 1.03 billion to take over the run from the football side of the club a year ago, must wonder what he came into.
Sunsport understands that Brailsford is now asking that question.
Because there is no plan B and Amorim seems to destroy its reputation because of a principle of 3–4–3.
United is not in a relegation crisis now, but with this lot they will be next season.
They owed £ 1 billion, Amorim knows that if he wants to buy, he must first sell – good luck with that – and, the worst of everything, under the leadership of Ratcliffe, the club is confronted with an identity crisis.
Moyes, fired as United Boss in 2014, will soon be able to spoil himself with a completely different club than the semi-kint he first left for Old Trafford.
The new 52,888-seater Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium will yield an extra £ 80 million a year, while new owners are worth the Friedkin Group £ 10 billion and Everton are debt-free.
This summer, Moyes is buying large while his former club is stuck to a collection of expensive fakes that they cannot sell.
The irony of everything that will certainly amuse him, even if he spit feathers after the penalty debacle that probably cost him a fifth prem win in six games.
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