{"id":96742,"date":"2025-05-13T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96742\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:07:08","slug":"ratcliffe-and-ineos-slammed-for-laughably-low-rent-europa-league-bbq-celebration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/96742\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratcliffe and INEOS slammed for laughably low-rent Europa League BBQ celebration plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Manchester United misers have told their players that they will only be given two free tickets each for their Europa League final, but have eased that disappointment with the promise of a hotdog at Carrington should they beat Tottenham in Bilbao.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/sir-jim-ratcliffe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Jim Ratcliffe<\/a><\/strong> and his Ineos penny-pinchers have been making significant cuts at the club since taking charge of football operations a little over a year ago in a bid to get the club back to where it belongs, via the worst domestic season in the club\u2019s modern history.<\/p>\n<p>Fans have enjoyed a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ratcliffe-slammed-man-utd-fans-mid-season-ineos-call-offensive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mid-season ticket price rise<\/a><\/strong> to endure the horrors at Old Trafford amid the threat of disability budget cuts. And roughly 450 members of staff have been made redundant, while the lucky few who have remained have seen their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-staff-disgruntled-new-ratcliffe-cut-situation-worse-now-glazers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christmas bonuses scrapped<\/a><\/strong> and hot dinners taken away as an INEOS spy roams the halls of Carrington to create a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-ratcliffe-spy-culture-fear-bruno-offer-denied-ineos-save-face\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cgrowing culture of fear\u201d<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/ranking-sir-jim-ratcliffe-mistakes-man-utd-ten-hag-feature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ranking Sir Jim Ratcliffe\u2019s 17 Man Utd f***-ups: 3) Ruben Amorim, 4) Dan Ashworth, 8) Kath Phipps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Club staff had to pay for travel to Wembley for the FA Cup final last year,\u00a0 and when top lad lad Bruno Fernandes offered to pay for it out of his own pocket the INEOS chiefs rejected that proposal because they thought <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-ratcliffe-spy-culture-fear-bruno-offer-denied-ineos-save-face\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018it would reflect badly on the regime\u2019<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0and apparently didn\u2019t think anyone would have an issue with \u2018thousands being shelled out on chauffeured cars\u2019 to take them to the very same event.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s now the players who are set to suffer from INEOS\u2019 frugality as the BBC claim the players will be restricted to two free tickets each for next week\u2019s final against Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-ruben-amorim-sack-update-revealed-as-importance-of-europa-league-final-surfaces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd: Ruben Amorim \u2018sack update\u2019 revealed as importance of Europa League final surfaces<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-transfer-chelsea-pay-sancho-penalty-euro-club-offer-lifeline-ineos-slash-price\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chelsea \u2018to pay penalty\u2019 to send Sancho back to Man Utd with European club to \u2018offer lifeline\u2019<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/enticing-fernandes-price-tag-star-ripped-away-prem-duo-eyed-replacements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Enticing Bruno Fernandes price can see star ripped from Man Utd as Prem duo in sights<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask? Well, those guys are only ever thinking of the fans whom they\u2019ve made pay more to attend the sh*t they\u2019ve served up at home this season, with the report claiming \u2018United\u00a0say they are committed to ensuring as many tickets as possible from the club\u2019s official 15,000 allocation go to supporters\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Course you are, lads. We\u2019re sure it has nothing absolutely nothing to do with you\u00a0having to pay for the players\u2019 family and friends tickets.<\/p>\n<p>The staff have already been told that they will not be given free tickets, as has previously been the case, because why should they be part of the club\u2019s potential glory? We imagine the \u2018viewing party in central Manchester\u2019 will be a hoot anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But not as much fun as the barbecue that\u2019s been promised should Manchester United win the county fair tug-of-war\u00a0major European trophy.<\/p>\n<p>We hear Diogo Dalot\u2019s got an excellent recipe for a chicken marinade and Matthijs de Ligt is putting together a playlist in the hope Manuel Ugarte can find his wireless speaker in time for what we assume will be a plus-zero affair at Carrington.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of dozen extraordinarily wealthy men sitting on camping chairs waiting for the next round of burnt halloumi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manchester United misers have told their players that they will only be given two free tickets each&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14147,163,98,12,28279,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-96742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-f365-says","9":"tag-front-page","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sir-jim-ratcliffe","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114497851030033544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}