Manchester United's new shareholder Ratcliffe has been constantly recruiting to reform the club, according to the UK's Daily Mail. "The 'Chemical King' club will have another space within the club for ordinary staff to eat, barring them from the players' dining room, which runs counter to the concept of the professional player's family championed by legendary leader Ferguson.
United are said to have moved the laundry team to another building earlier, this time burying their hands in the players' dining room and separating the players' and staff's eating spaces. Sources say that Ratcliffe wants to take whatever steps he can to minimize the outside influence on the players, and some even believe it is to save money as they only need to provide quality food for the players in the future.
When Ferguson became Manchester United coach in 1986, he emphasized the need to connect everyone up and down the club so that he felt part of the Red Devils and established a sense of belonging. As a result, anyone with a job, such as players, coaches, office staff and laundresses, could all eat at the same place.
Ratcliffe's banning of rank-and-file employees from the players' cafeteria certainly overturned the principle of equality established by Mr. Fay.
