Asked if poor morale among staff at the club was affecting the team, Amorim said: “I think it’s really important for us in the first team, coaches and players, to not ignore that.
Ruben Amorim has acknowledged he and the first team must shoulder the blame for Manchester United’s failings as a football club that have resulted in swathes of employees being made redundant.
Amorim has struggled to turn the ship around and United travel to Tottenham on Sunday, a fixture that started the weekend as 14th v 13th and with a combined total of five wins between them in their past 22 league games.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the minority owner, is set to remove a further 200 staff roles at Old Trafford as part of cost-cutting exercises to address years of financial mismanagement and put them back on a firmer footing.
People are losing their jobs so we have to acknowledge that and the biggest problem is the football, because we spend the money, we are not winning, we are not in Champions League, so the revenues are not the same.
