Ruben Amorim blames Man United team for redundancies at the club with 200 more staff set to be axed as part of Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s cost-cutting

Ruben Amorim says his Manchester United team are ‘the engine’ of the club and must take their share of the blame for the loss of more jobs at Old Trafford.

On Monday the club announced plans to make up to 200 more redundancies in addition to the 250 job cuts made last year under minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos.

United’s financial problems have been exacerbated by their failure on the pitch with Amorim’s side currently 15th in the table and relying on winning the Europa League to return to the Champions League.

Asked if the job losses emphasise the importance of success on the pitch, Amorim said: ‘That is clear. 

‘We have to address all the problems in the club, but one important piece of this moment is to understand how we get to this situation.

‘It has a lot to do with the lack of success of the football team because we are the engine of any football club. I just want to help the club in my department which is to improve the team and improve the players have success.

He argued they are the ‘engine of the club’ and blamed them for ‘getting into the situation’ 

United plan for 200 more redundancies, bringing total job cuts under Sir Jim Ratcliffe to 450

‘It is always hard, for everybody. They see the friends and the teammates losing their jobs, but we have to focus on what I can do to help the club in the moment. We as a club have to understand what we did wrong to get to this situation, so we need to think in solutions. 

‘It (the job) is hard enough. We know this year was really hard for everybody. 

‘We did as a club a lot of changes and then when you are doing the changes if you have a football team who are playing well and are winning games, it is easier for the fans and everyone to feel the changes.

‘But in this moment we are in a difficult period inside of the club and inside of the pitch, so we have to fight against this feeling and we have do our job and we try our best to help the team to perform better.’