{"id":149688,"date":"2024-12-08T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/dan-ashworth-leaves-man-united-after-just-five-months-as-sporting-director\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T09:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T09:17:23","slug":"dan-ashworth-leaves-man-united-after-just-five-months-as-sporting-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/08\/dan-ashworth-leaves-man-united-after-just-five-months-as-sporting-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Ashworth leaves Man United after just five months as sporting director"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Dan Ashworth has left Manchester United after just five months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashworth joined the Red Devils<\/a> as sporting director on July 1 after a lengthy period of gardening leave<\/a> at Newcastle United.<\/p>\n

\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

2<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Ashworth only became sporting director at Man United in July<\/span>Credit: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, as first reported by The Athletic, the transition has not been smooth and an exit has been decided on.<\/p>\n

Sir Jim Ratcliffe is believed to have played a key role in the decision to part ways.<\/p>\n

Ratcliffe, and right-hand man Sir Dave Brailsford, put the 53-year-old in charge of ‘football performance, recruitment and operations’ at United.<\/p>\n

Jason Wilcox reported to him as technical director.<\/p>\n

Ashworth had a meeting with chief executive Omar Berrada at Old Trafford following the club’s 3-2 defeat to Nottingham Forest on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He played a huge role in their \u00a3183million spending spree in Ineos’ first transfer window.<\/p>\n

United signed the likes of Leny Yoro, Manuel Ugarte, Matthijs De Ligt, Joshua Zirkzee, and Noussair Mazraoui.<\/p>\n

Ashworth also played a key role in the decision to hand Erik ten Hag a new contract in the summer.<\/p>\n

He was quoted in the official club announcement in July when the club confirmed Ten Hag would be staying.<\/p>\n

Ashworth was also quoted by club media in each of the transfer announcements, showing how key he had been to things at the club.<\/p>\n

\n
\"Ratcliffe<\/a><\/p>\n

2<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

Ratcliffe will need to find a new sporting director<\/span>Credit: Getty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He had been a long-term target for Ratcliffe in his overhaul of the football operations at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

\u201cDan Ashworth is clearly one of the top sporting directors in the world,\u201d United\u2019s co-owner said in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no doubt he is a very capable person. He is interested in Manchester United because it\u2019s the biggest challenge at the biggest club in the world. <\/p>\n

“It would be different at City because you\u2019re maintaining a level. Here it\u2019s a significant rebuilding job. He would be a very good addition.\u201d<\/p>\n

It took four months of negotiations between Man United and Newcastle to agree on a compensation package to help the Magpies comply with Premier League Profit and Sustainability rules.<\/p>\n

At one stage Newcastle were believed to be demanding up to \u00a320million in order to rip up his deal at St James’ Park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Ashworth has left Manchester United after just five months. Ashworth joined the Red Devils as sporting director on July 1 after a lengthy period of gardening leave at Newcastle United. 2 Ashworth only became sporting director at Man United in JulyCredit: AFP However, as first reported by The Athletic, the transition has not been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":149689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[14370,1828,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-149688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups","8":"tag-dan-ashworth","9":"tag-man-united","10":"tag-manchester-united"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}