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







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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'.
I have always regarded Rashford as a thoughtful communitarian.
It must have been sick-making to be at the club he loved while it cavorted around like a drunken pools winner with her tights round her ankles.
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I have always regarded Rashford as a thoughtful communitarian.
It must have been sick-making to be at the club he loved while it cavorted around like a drunken pools winner with her tights round her ankles.
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The Mourinho and now Almiron thing of hanging one or two players out to publicly dry, isn’t great man management imho. Other successful managers have shown by their deeds that isn’t necessary. Irrespective of the players having failings.
 
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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
In the Q1 accounts for MUFC there is a quoted figure of £10.4m for the sacking of ETH...who a few months earlier had had the option on his contract for another year triggered by the club.

In the Q2 accounts there is a £14.5m figure which says it relates to 'the departure of former men's first team manager Erik Ten Haag and various members of football staff'.

The media have put two and two together and concluded that the difference between the Q1 and Q2 figures relates solely to Dan Ashworth, who according to my sauces was sacked for standing up to Offshore Jim and supporting his colleagues at Old Trafford. From what I've heard there have been other job losses at OT in Q2 and therefore I suspted that Ashworth's payoff is included in, but not necessarily 100% of, the £4.1m. I may be wrong though. MUFC have also gone to great lengths to avoid publishing the compensation they paid to Newcastle for Dan, yet did pubish that they paid Sporting £10m for Amiron. All very strange, a bit like the Albion publishing that Chelsea paid £22m compo for Graham Potter to be released from his contract, yet Chelsea didn't mention this in their own accounts.
 




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The Mourinho and now Almiron thing of hanging one or two players out to publicly dry, isn’t great man management imho. Other successful managers have shown by their deeds that isn’t necessary. Irrespective of the players having failings.
Despite (or perhaps because of) Rashford being on a long contract at £330K a week, the player has a history of disciplinary issues. Ten Haag dropped him at least twice for not turning up for training the night after being out on the piss. Amorim talked about him being disengaged from the team and uncommunicative, and being unwilling to accept new ideas. He sounds like a moody git to me and United are well rid of him.

I don’t think he’s been 'hung out to dry'. Coaches get asked questions about why a star player has been dropped and they either answer that question or they lie about it. They can’t keep saying that the player's feeling ill. It’s actually quite refreshing to get the truth even if you have to read between the lines when they talk about a player 'not training well' or having personal issues to deal with.

That said, we don’t know how well or badly United look after players. I can’t remember which podcast I listened to this week where someone mentioned that Man Utd were known to be less supportive than their rivals in this area. So who knows.

From an England perspective it would be good to have Rashford fit and firing again. Maybe the change of scene will work out well for everyone though he’ll have to accept a big pay cut if he wants to stay at Villa.
 




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