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[Football] Dan Ashworth **Sacked by Man U 08/12/24**











JBizzle

JBizzle

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Manchester United paid Dan Ashworth £4.1m to leave after five months​

  • Financial results reveal former sporting director’s payoff
  • United paid about £3m to take Ashworth from Newcastle
Manchester United have revealed they paid £4.1m to Dan Ashworth when he left after only five months at Old Trafford. It cost the club about £3m in compensation last summer to acquire the sporting director from Newcastle but they parted ways in December. Ashworth’s exit came after the sacking of Erik ten Hag and his staff in October, which cost United £10.4m. United made great effort to prise Ashworth away from Newcastle but a decision was made for him to depart after a summer of underwhelming recruitment and amid a difficult relationship with the minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

The figure was included in United’s latest financial results. They show revenue was down 12% year-on-year to the end of December 2024, caused by a drop in broadcast money after United failed to qualify for the Champions League, but the balance sheet was helped by an £80m cash injection from Ineos.

Blimey, Ineos really are doing a shoddy job. Still, at least it's not the Glazers, eh?
 


Kalimantan Gull

Kalimantan Gull

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Aug 13, 2003
13,794
Central Borneo / the Lizard
JBizzle said:

Manchester United paid Dan Ashworth £4.1m to leave after five months​

  • Financial results reveal former sporting director’s payoff
  • United paid about £3m to take Ashworth from Newcastle
Manchester United have revealed they paid £4.1m to Dan Ashworth when he left after only five months at Old Trafford. It cost the club about £3m in compensation last summer to acquire the sporting director from Newcastle but they parted ways in December. Ashworth’s exit came after the sacking of Erik ten Hag and his staff in October, which cost United £10.4m. United made great effort to prise Ashworth away from Newcastle but a decision was made for him to depart after a summer of underwhelming recruitment and amid a difficult relationship with the minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

The figure was included in United’s latest financial results. They show revenue was down 12% year-on-year to the end of December 2024, caused by a drop in broadcast money after United failed to qualify for the Champions League, but the balance sheet was helped by an £80m cash injection from Ineos.

Blimey, Ineos really are doing a shoddy job. Still, at least it's not the Glazers, eh?
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Nice work if you can get it. Glazers are still majority shareholders, of course. Ineos do seem impressive in their incompetence.
 








Kalimantan Gull

Kalimantan Gull

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Aug 13, 2003
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DJ NOBO said:
Stuck with a load of expensive terrible players, off and on pitch discontent, an unpragmatic manager.
It is quite possible they’ll go down next season.
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We often get a lot of the promoted sides relegated, but after Fulham, Forest and Bournemouth all stayed up in 22-23, and assuming the three up last year go down this year, by next season every other club in the premier league will have been there for at least three seasons, which is pretty established. Everyone now is either rich, well-managed, or both. But one of these years the three who come up will be well-funded and competent, and thats going to well and truly put the cat amongst the pigeons with the rest of us.
 




schmunk

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Jan 19, 2018
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Munkfish said:
There was never ever evidence that Ineos and Sir Jim were ever going to turn around United. if you look at the rest of sporting portfolio its pretty underwhelming, lets hope it continues.
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What do you mean? As they proudly state on their website, the INEOS Grenadiers cycling team has won the Tour de France SEVEN(7) times!





(they don't, however, proudly state that all but one of these wins were as Team Sky, before the INEOS takeover, and the final one in 2019 just after the takeover, effectively under the old regime...)
 


Weststander

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DJ NOBO said:
Stuck with a load of expensive terrible players, off and on pitch discontent, an unpragmatic manager.
It is quite possible they’ll go down next season.
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It's the silly wages the duff players are on, money thrown around like confetti with each wave of managers choices new players. With unclever contract renewals in attempting to do a Bloom in protecting 'value'.
 






DJ NOBO

DJ NOBO

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Jul 18, 2004
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Weststander said:
It's the silly wages the duff players are on, money thrown around like confetti with each wave of managers choices new players. With unclever contract renewals in attempting to do a Bloom in protecting 'value'.
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Even if now they got the right people in doing the right things they are still at risk of capitulation because there are so many legacy problems
 


El Presidente

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Jul 5, 2003
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JBizzle said:

Manchester United paid Dan Ashworth £4.1m to leave after five months​

  • Financial results reveal former sporting director’s payoff
  • United paid about £3m to take Ashworth from Newcastle
Manchester United have revealed they paid £4.1m to Dan Ashworth when he left after only five months at Old Trafford. It cost the club about £3m in compensation last summer to acquire the sporting director from Newcastle but they parted ways in December. Ashworth’s exit came after the sacking of Erik ten Hag and his staff in October, which cost United £10.4m. United made great effort to prise Ashworth away from Newcastle but a decision was made for him to depart after a summer of underwhelming recruitment and amid a difficult relationship with the minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

The figure was included in United’s latest financial results. They show revenue was down 12% year-on-year to the end of December 2024, caused by a drop in broadcast money after United failed to qualify for the Champions League, but the balance sheet was helped by an £80m cash injection from Ineos.

Blimey, Ineos really are doing a shoddy job. Still, at least it's not the Glazers, eh?
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As much as I loathe Offshore Jim and the Glazers, not sure this figure of £4.1m is necessarily correct.
 


jackanada

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Jul 19, 2011
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Whatever the actual figures for United's spending on hiring and firing and general incompetence they must really add to the general ill feeling among the staff who've seen their colleagues sacked, their conditions worsened and their perks removed.
 




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Greg Bobkin

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May 22, 2012
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El Presidente said:
As much as I loathe Offshore Jim and the Glazers, not sure this figure of £4.1m is necessarily correct.
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If only there was a number-bothering DULLARD around who could help get to the bottom of it...

'Offshore Jim' LOLz
 


B-right-on

B-right-on

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Apr 23, 2015
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Shoreham Beaaaach
JBizzle said:

Manchester United paid Dan Ashworth £4.1m to leave after five months​

  • Financial results reveal former sporting director’s payoff
  • United paid about £3m to take Ashworth from Newcastle
Manchester United have revealed they paid £4.1m to Dan Ashworth when he left after only five months at Old Trafford. It cost the club about £3m in compensation last summer to acquire the sporting director from Newcastle but they parted ways in December. Ashworth’s exit came after the sacking of Erik ten Hag and his staff in October, which cost United £10.4m. United made great effort to prise Ashworth away from Newcastle but a decision was made for him to depart after a summer of underwhelming recruitment and amid a difficult relationship with the minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

The figure was included in United’s latest financial results. They show revenue was down 12% year-on-year to the end of December 2024, caused by a drop in broadcast money after United failed to qualify for the Champions League, but the balance sheet was helped by an £80m cash injection from Ineos.

Blimey, Ineos really are doing a shoddy job. Still, at least it's not the Glazers, eh?
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Bloody hell. Ashworth must have an incredible garden with all the gardening leave he's been getting, only surpassed by his ridiculously bulging bank account from all the clubs he's been doing over.
 












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