Manchester United, a feverish institution in the home – Liberation
A final performance in the Théâtre des Rêves, which has been in the past few months in horrors. Manchester United will complete its season this Sunday, May 25 at 5 p.m. by welcoming Aston Villa in Old Trafford, for the 38th and last day of the Premier League. The Mancunian institution, current 16th in the ranking, could, in the event of a new underperformance, downgraded to 17th position, which would constitute its worst performance since its relegation in 1974. A nightmarish season for the most titled team of English football, fourth richest club on the planet (770 million euros of annual budget) according to the cabinet Dowellyin line with a progressive downgrading for a decade, the last title of champion of United dating back to 2013.
The men of Portuguese coach Rúben Amorim could not even console themselves with a victory in the final of the Europa League, during which they were defeated Wednesday by the equally moribund English club of Tottenham. A setback at 100 million euros: the Red Devils thus see a ticket for the next Champions League, particularly lucrative. The bad ranking of United in the Premier League also has financial impacts: English clubs affect money according to their sporting merit. During last season, each place since the 20th and last thus represented 2.8 million pounds (3.3 million euros), an amount that is combined with each additional level to reach 56.4 million pounds (67 million euros) collected by the champion then (the local rival Manchester City).
Summer should be agitated at the Carrington training center. Several players could suit their bags, just to bail out the boxes. The captain and best player of the season, Bruno Fernandes, even offered to leave, if that could help his club rebuild: « If the club thinks it’s time to separate because it wants to recover money or anything, it’s like that. » As for the coach, only victorious six times in the championship since his arrival in November, he said he was willing to leave without compensation.
This does not seem to the agenda of Jim Ratcliffe, the co -owner of United. The boss of the Ineos petrochemical group would like according to the Timecontinue with Amorim and provide it with an envelope of 100 million euros to be used on the summer transfers market. This could inflate if some players (Rashford, Antony, Sancho) were sold. Rúben Amorim seems to be aware that an upheaval of his workforce will not be the magic recipe. “We have to change a lot within the club. The way to train, recruitment, academy (…). We have a lot of work, and more important things to settle to bring this club back to the top ”, He said before the Europa League final.
