United Thread | 2024/25

jacko74 said:
According to Google united only actually had around 1000 employees in the UK, I'd assumed they had quite a lot more than that when I heard scruffy Jim had got rid of 250 staff.

To slash any workforce by 25% in one fell swoop is a very drastic action.

Unless there were some serious piss takers and deadwood behind the scenes they're surely going to suffer repercussions of such a major cut in the workforce.
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indeed. It's cut the wages...but it's seriously cut the goodwill of the longterm (nonplaying) staff. it's already been mentioned about their 34 year groundsmen at Leigh (IIRC) who's been made redundant.

I'm also guessing that a load of hospitality and backroom permanent staff have gone, to be replaced by short-term zero hours ones.
The overall wage savings could probably be covered by their mens football team foregoing far less than a month of their wages.

And the biggest elephant in the room wage is still getting his millions for doing sod all, other than looming as a spectre of the past, holding back any chance of progress.

If they crash out of the PL this year, i can't see them coming back up straight away, unless they somehow hire a decent championship manager.
 
JASR said:
indeed. It's cut the wages...but it's seriously cut the goodwill of the longterm (nonplaying) staff. it's already been mentioned about their 34 year groundsmen at Leigh (IIRC) who's been made redundant.

I'm also guessing that a load of hospitality and backroom permanent staff have gone, to be replaced by short-term zero hours ones.
The overall wage savings could probably be covered by their mens football team foregoing far less than a month of their wages.

And the biggest elephant in the room wage is still getting his millions for doing sod all, other than looming as a spectre of the past, holding back any chance of progress.

If they crash out of the PL this year, i can't see them coming back up straight away, unless they somehow hire a decent championship manager.
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Dyche will be free.
 
JASR said:
indeed. It's cut the wages...but it's seriously cut the goodwill of the longterm (nonplaying) staff. it's already been mentioned about their 34 year groundsmen at Leigh (IIRC) who's been made redundant.

I'm also guessing that a load of hospitality and backroom permanent staff have gone, to be replaced by short-term zero hours ones.
The overall wage savings could probably be covered by their mens football team foregoing far less than a month of their wages.

And the biggest elephant in the room wage is still getting his millions for doing sod all, other than looming as a spectre of the past, holding back any chance of progress.

If they crash out of the PL this year, i can't see them coming back up straight away, unless they somehow hire a decent championship manager.
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Typical of this type of investment.

Reduce 'quick win' costs, reduce cap ex,sell underused assets, access all public grants/funding, manipulate PR/media.

Scruffy Jim catweazle the petrochemical polluting tax evading chav fan is only in it for the land development opportunity.

I doubt that he gives two fucks for the lower mid table rags.

It's their historical position.
 
pirate said:
and we had more seasons in top divison until the late 90's
they still have only been in the top division for 3 more seasons than us
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Depends when history starts, like all clubs especially red shirt twats it only begins at a point that shows how good they WERE.
 
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