Shortly before 2.30 pm on Monday, hundreds of delivered staff submitted the Manchester Suite in Old Trafford to hear about the last threat to their work.
Employees who had survived the first round of 250 dismissals under Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos last year were back to another Cull who will see more cuts on Manchester United's workforce.
Some are said to have been left in an emotional condition after they were told that they will learn their fate in April, which means that she means another month of region and uncertainty.
The Grim News was supplied by Chief Executive Omar Berrada who apologized for spreading even more gloom, but explained that other top clubs had been considerably more successful than united with a smaller staff.
Berrada spoke about the importance of making United profitable after five years of losses and referred to Project 150, the daring plan to make the Club Premier League champions again by 2028.
He introduced Marc Armstrong, who started working as a Chief Business Officer on Monday after switching from Paris Saint-Germain. The newest director of United did not speak, which was perhaps a sensible movement in the circumstances.
The staff did hear from Human Resources Director Annie Hale and Chief Financial Officer Roger Bell while the painful reality of the club's position was described.
Those who are lucky to survive that the last cuts have been told that some employees will move to the Carrington Training Ground, and anyone who continues to work at Old Trafford will no longer benefit from free lunches from the canteen. Instead, they will offer fruit from next week.
“It was the only advantage that was left,” Memed an employee who revealed that free meals on Monday usually consist of remaining food from the competition day that weekend anyway.
In the meantime, the staff in Carrington will continue to eat for the rest of the season of the same menu, but will not have the same lunch choices as the players and coaches from the summer in the midst of reports that they must be satisfied with soup and sandwiches.
During the Monday meeting, cakes and chips were made available, together with jugs of water and plastic cups. So far the big spenders of English football.
This has been a humiliating wake-up call for United, because Ineos started cleaning up a mess created by two decades of ownership by the Glazer family.
There is little doubt that the 1,100-strong staff of United was blown up, but the bitterness and resentment in the rank and the file is that they pay the price for errors that are much higher on the command structure.
Compared to the obscene waste of money at the club in recent years, the £ 1 million saved by lunches from the staffing is a drop in the ocean.
Last week the financial results of United showed that interest payments on the leverage of the glazers have now covered £ 1 billion, while United £ 391 million in transfer money is owed.
Of the £ 14.5 million paid in compensation to football staff dismissed by Ratcliffe, there was an invoice of £ 4.1 million for Dan Ashworth who lasted 159 days as a sports director and already found work at Warwickshire Cricket Club as a freelance consultant.
On Monday, the confidence of Manchester United Supporters released a new analysis of the results that they claim will increase the interest payments on United's debt in 2027 to £ 50 million a year.
It also indicated that the amount owed on transfers has risen by £ 52 million for the past 12 months, by £ 211 million of them this year.
Calling the club to expect that the ticket prices are being increased, must say: 'The Debt Mountain Glazers is the original sin in the recent decline of Manchester United. The only way out is that the owners invest their own money, reducing the debt and interest payments. '
Until that time it seems that the staff will continue to feel the squeeze caused by a combination of MIS management and failure on the field.
As soon as head coach Ruben Amorim was recognized a few days ago – 'people lose their jobs, so we have to acknowledge and the biggest problem is football' – then Casemiro indicated an interview that he is not in a hurry to leave the aged Trafford and Rip A £ 375.00 per week contract that still has 16 months to walk.
Imagine how many lunches would buy. There is a bitter irony about the fact that the money that is saved by job reductions will be re -invested in the first team, as if it has not swallowed enough of the cake.
No wonder it has reached its lowest point at United at United. The staff was dismissed from the Manchester Suite on Monday with another warning that leaking details of the meeting were an fired infringement.
By the time that many had even reached their cars, the club had already issued a press release.
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