Manchester United will make as much as 200 jobs redundant to “return the membership to profitability”.

About 250 members of workers have been made redundant final yr in a primary wave of cost-cutting measures by co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

In a gathering with workers on Monday, United chief govt Omar Berrada knowledgeable staff that there can be a recent spherical of redundancies as a part of a “transformation plan”.

A membership assertion learn: “The transformation plan goals to return the membership to profitability after 5 consecutive years of losses since 2019.”

It added that the extra measures are being taken to “enhance the membership’s monetary sustainability and improve operational effectivity.

“This can create a extra stable monetary platform from which the membership can spend money on males’s and girls’s soccer success and improved infrastructure.”

Berrada stated: “We’ve got a accountability to place Manchester United within the strongest place to win throughout our males’s, ladies’s and academy groups.

“These onerous selections are crucial to place the membership again on a secure monetary footing.

“We’ve got misplaced cash for the previous 5 consecutive years. This can not proceed.

“Our two fundamental priorities as a membership are delivering success on the pitch for our followers and bettering our amenities. We can not spend money on these targets if we’re repeatedly dropping cash.”