Man Utd chiefs needs to be ashamed at agreeing put up season tour after star threatened strike

Ruben Amorim’s players must be delighted.

Following a gruelling season of failure and embarrassment, the Manchester United squad has to get on a plane and travel to the Far East. Within hours of completing their final league game of the season against Aston Villa.

To parade themselves in front of supporters in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong in two exhibition games. All for the sake of earning the club around £10m.

At the end of a campaign which started with Ballon d’Or winner Rodri claiming top level footballers would consider going on strike, unless the authorities took a serious look at the footballing calendar.

Rodri has missed almost the entire season with a serious injury. And the irony of him busting a gut to get fit in time for Manchester City’s participation in the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup this summer, will not be lost on the Spanish superstar.

We now live in the world in which football never sleeps. Post-season tours are becoming an integral part of a club’s itinerary, along with pre-season tours as well.

Because it generates much-needed cash, at a time when the game is drowning in the stuff. While the welfare of the most important people of all – the players – is completely ignored and shown no respect whatsoever.

What Bruno Fernandes thinks of an upcoming trip to the Far East is anyone’s guess.

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He is expecting to be part of the Portugal team taking part in a Nations League semi final showdown with Germany, less than a week after United’s second and final game of their jaunt to the Far East.

United’s Europa League clash with Lyon on Thursday will be Fernandes’s 54th game of the season. Footballers are human beings, not machines.

And who could blame Fernandes for tweaking a hamstring, in order to get out of a trip only those who balance the books at Old Trafford will care about?