Ruben Amorim paid 30 of his Manchester United Backroom staff to take their family to the final of the Europa League next week in Bilbao, Spain, after being informed by the club that his coaches, his physios and the support team should pay their own tickets, said in ESPN.
United will play Tottenham Hotspur in Bilbao May 21 with the price of glory of the Europa League accompanied by a place in the Champions League next season for the winners.
However, the United Hierarchy continues with a series of cost reduction measures which includes an ax up to 200 jobs at Old Trafford this summer, and made two tickets for Bilbao available for the purchase of staff rather than finance a free trip to the final.
On the other hand, the finalists of the Champions League, Paris Saint-Germain, confirmed last week that they would pay 600 staff members to attend their match against Inter Milan in Munich on May 31.
Sources have told ESPN that United made its decision to ensure that supporters were able to buy as many tickets as possible from the club’s 15,000 allocation for the game at Estadio San Mamès.
The players were only allocated two tickets each while family members and friends will not have their covered travel costs.
But sources said that Mororim, who brought several members of his CP sports staff to Old Trafford when he took care of United last November, intervened to pay for his support team, which includes unpaid staff members, in reward and recognition of their contribution and their commitment for six difficult months to the club.
Sources said that when it was specified in Amorim that the club would not pay for its coaches and its staff, it told the United Hierarchy that it would finance the cost to ensure that each member could take up to two friends or his family.
