According to the Telegraph, Manchester United club did not arrange a charter flight, allowing its women's football team to purchase a away return ticket to the Champions League at its own expense. After playing Champions League qualifying agains...
According to the Telegraph, Manchester United club did not arrange a charter flight, allowing its women's football team to purchase a away return ticket to the Champions League at its own expense.
After playing Champions League qualifying against Hamaby in Stockholm, Sweden, the Manchester United women's football team was originally scheduled to return to the UK on Sunday. However, the flights booked by the club for them included transits, and the players did not arrive in Manchester until 10 p.m. Despite direct flights, all players and staff were not able to be accommodated, so the club arranged flights with transfers for Manchester United women's football team.
When the women's football team went on a battle, Manchester United provided them with charter flights, but the return trip was not arranged in this way. Instead, they told the female football players that if they wanted to go home early, they could book their own tickets, so many players chose to pay out of their own pockets. According to the Telegraph, some female football players are very angry about this. Manchester United's approach to women's football is in stark contrast to Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City women's football teams, who chose to charter flights last season in the Champions League.
It is reported that the Manchester United women's football team stayed in Stockholm for five days and stayed in a five-star hotel, training at the Swedish Football Association headquarters, which is considered to have the best training facilities in the local area. The club said that the itinerary was negotiated with the team committee because some players wanted to arrange their own personal itinerary. While arranging traffic according to the specific situation, the team's competitive performance and cost factors are also taken into account. The overall strategy is to manage women's football expenses under the premise of financial sustainability.
However, the current actions of Manchester United clubs will only deepen the outside world's disregard for the women's football leaders, and Ratcliff has never attended women's football matches since taking over Manchester United's football division. Although Manchester United women's football team has qualified for the new season of the Champions League, the transfer window this summer is also slow and only two new players have been signed. The Telegraph has contacted Manchester United for comment on these situations and has not received a reply.
