Sir Jim Ratcliffe has reportedly continued Manchester United’s cost-cutting measures by cancelling a charity donation for membership legends.
Ratcliffe embarked upon a root-and-branch monetary evaluate after taking 1 / 4 stake within the membership earlier this yr.
The membership made round 250 redundancies over the summer season and earlier this month a whole lot of followers gathered exterior Previous Trafford to protest in opposition to the choice to lift matchday ticket costs.
As reported by The Solar, billionaire Ratcliffe has continued the penny-pinching scheme by chopping funding for a charity.
United in earlier years donated £40,000 a yr to a charity set as much as assist former gamers. However there are fears it’s going to stop to exist.
The Affiliation of Former Manchester United Gamers was arrange in 1985 to help gamers who didn’t make the mouthwatering salaries of the fashionable period.
Crimson Devils legends similar to Bryan Robson and Dennis Irwin are among the many 300 former gamers the charity helps.
Trustee Jim Elms performed for United’s youth facet and reserves and he has slammed Ratcliffe’s determination.
He advised The Solar: ‘We despatched a letter to say we have not been paid. No one got here out and advised us so we needed to ship one other letter.
‘That is once we began listening to issues that it was going to be the tip of us.’
