Ruben Amorim has pointed the blame for the latest wave of Manchester United redundancies at the club's football department for continued failure on the pitch. United's decline across the last decade has proven costly, with a regular inability to qualify for the Champions League particularly financially damaging.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has launched an aggressive cost-cutting process since investing £1.25billion for a 27.7 per cent stake in February, which has since increased to 28.9 per cent.
The Ineos kingpin's unpopular measures have included increasing ticket prices and slashing the club's workforce in an attempt to streamline operations at Old Trafford.
United made around 250 employees redundant last year and reports this week claim that another brutal set of axes to free up funds for the first team is imminent.
Between 100 and 200 more staff members are about to lose their jobs, with Ratcliffe said to reluctantly consider the move necessary to save the Red Devils from financial ruin.
Ahead of Sunday's Premier League trip to Tottenham, Sky Sports drifted away from the standard line of questioning by asking for Amorim's opinion on the morale-squashing developments.
And the United boss acknowledged that the club's workforce is paying the price for expensive mistakes that were the fault of those swinging the axe.
"My job is to win games and to help my players to perform. That is a different problem," Amorim explained.
"I think we are also making decisions because our team, for a long period of time, hasn't been performing.
"We are buying players, and we are spending money, and then we don't have that returning, so it's on us, these problems. It's not the other way around."
He added: "Everyone here at Manchester United knows that it's really hard on the club, especially the people that are losing jobs.
"The fans are always supporting us, they are amazing, and we are increasing the [price of] tickets. We know that. I think it's our fault in the football department."
Amorim also suggested that there could be a greater focus on cashing in on United's constant stream of academy talent to raise funds going forward.
"So the only way to help is to win games and to go to the Champions League, to have better kids in the academy, to bring them up," the Portuguese tactician continued.
"When you need the money, you sell the players, one kid or two kids, and then you don't fire a lot of people. I think we need to step up as a football team in this big football club."