It may take a while, but Manchester United will get to the top of British football again if you ask Sir Jim Ratcliffe. The Red Devils’ new minority owner is in charge of the sporting department, which has obviously failed during the years after Sir Alex Ferguson left. He started making some big chances, but he is still not done. After finding a new CEO and sporting director, the British billionaire is set to name a new coach. Or at least he will try to. His attempt will be bold – he will try to lure England manager Gareth Southgate.Ratcliffe admits that Manchester’s culture is ‘not set up for success’According to Daily Star, Ratcliffe is not very convinced that Erik ten Hag is the man with whom he wants to go forward in the next few years, and he conducted a mini-enquiry among the staff (and some players), and the result was Southgate. Even thou Dan Ashworth has not yet become the new sporting director (Newcastle is still insisting on 15-20 million euros compensation), he was surely asked by Ratcliffe, as he and Southgate worked together at the Football Association and Ashworth is keen to team up with Gareth, whose last club job was back in 2009, when he was sacked by Middlesborough.🚨🚨| Sir Jim Ratcliffe makes Gareth Southgate No.1 choice to replace Erik Ten Hag at Manchester United.[@MailSport] pic.twitter.com/ZX0dtI9jgs— CentreGoals. (@centregoals) March 19, 2024 So, the current England boss has the support inside Old Trafford, but there is still work to be done. While Southgate is persistently mum on his post-EURO future with England, nobody knows if he is willing to stay or not. FA wants to give him a new contract, but if Manchester comes calling…his current deal expires in December 2024, while Ten Hag’s contract runs out in June 2025. If Ratcliffe was to sack the Dutchman and appoint Southgate in June 2024, it would cost him an additional 10.800.000 pounds, as both managers have clauses in their contract (10 for Ten Hag, 800.000 for Southgate). If you add another 15-20 million for Dan Answorth, it will be one of the most expensive sporting staff in recent history.How an NFL team sale disrupted the Manchester United buyout by sheikh Al ThaniSouthgate’s England are among the favourites to win Euro 2024 after he led them to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup and the final of Euro 2020. If he is to take over at Old Trafford, he would work together with Ashworth, who worked as the FA’s director of elite development between 2012 and 2018, overlapping with Southgate’s stint as England under-21 coach and then senior boss. On the other hand, if he wins the FA Cup and somehow manages to get into the Champions Ten Hag League, things might change.##NAJAVA_MECA_7970590##
