Sir Jim Ratcliffe managed to become the co-owner of Manchester United in charge of sports matters towards the end of 2023. A British billionaire known as a fan of the Red Devils bought 25 percent of the club’s shares and went full steam ahead with the reconstruction, in order to prevent the wasteful spending of hundreds of millions of euros on players and coaches who fail to meet expectations.To that end, the first choice was Omar Berrada, who was brought from Manchester City to the position of executive director. The Spaniard has worked at United’s city rivals for the past eight years and is one of the most responsible for creating a powerful team led by Pep Guardiola, and was previously at Barcelona. After Berrada, a sports director is planned because since Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United’s coaches have not been very good at managerial roles. Expensive players were brought, for high compensation, and there were no results. That is why the decision of the new part of the management is to change that practice, that is, for the coach to think about the field, and the sports director about transfers.##NAJAVA_MECA_7889467##The first pick for that position was Paul Mitchell, who worked in Monaco until the fall, but he turned down an invitation from Old Trafford. Now Newcastle’s Dan Ashworth is in the foreground, however, his engagement will not be easy either. In this case, the candidate has a desire to come, but his current club is against it. Moreover, Newcastle has suspended Ashworth from performing the duties of sporting director (but will pay him his salary in full during the suspension), and are asking Manchester United for as much as 23,500,000 euros for his transfer.Transfers of sports directors have become frequent in modern football and are often as important as bringing in a quality player, but such an amount with some compensation in hiring a director has not yet been recorded. It is hard to believe that it will be like that this time, although there are reasons why the Magpies set a high demand.In addition to the fact that Ratcliffe and his men want to impose themselves as soon as possible by doing good work and lifting the stumbling giant from Old Trafford, so they do not have much time to wait and negotiate, there is also the fact that Newcastle brought Ashworth in order to break through and settle down among the best in the Premier League. The former official of the English FA arrived in the north of the country from Brighton, where he laid the foundations for one of the most pleasant surprises of English football in recent years, and previously proved himself by working in the national association and forming younger selections that picked up numerous medals in several age groups.BREAKING: Dan Ashworth has been placed on gardening leave by Newcastle after he told the club he wanted to leave following an approach by Manchester United. pic.twitter.com/QK8JGqszQQ— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) February 18, 2024 Interestingly, even when he left Brighton, Ashworth was on a three-month suspension. It is not surprising that the fight for his affection is fierce, but we will see how long they will endure paying him in Newcastle even though he does not come to work, that is, how persistent they will be in Manchester United to “snatch” him.
