Ruben Amorim pays for friends, family of 30 Manchester United backroom staff to watch Europa League final after club refuses to
With Manchester United reportedly refusing to pay for the costs of club staff members’ friends and family to attend the Europa League final against Tottenham Hotspur, club manager Ruben Amorim has stepped in and offered to bear the costs of 30 members of the backroom staff. Football clubs usually offer to pay for friends and family members of the backroom staff to attend big-ticket finals. But with United currently undertaking a raft of severe cost-cutting measures, the club have allegedly told their coaches, physios and support staff that there will be no complimentary tickets for next week’s final at Estadio San Mamés. Instead, staff members were told they could purchase up to two tickets from the club’s allocation of 15,000 seats for the game.
The New York Times reported that even Man...