Manchester United paid Newcastle United to get Dan Ashworth out of his contract this summer and will now assumedly be compensating their departing sporting director
Dan Ashworth is the latest in a long line of Manchester United employees to depart the club within 12 months of Ineos being delegated responsibility for managing football operations.
Around the same time, Benni McCarthy, Mitchell van der Gaag and Steve McClaren left, with Rene Hake—for whom United had to compensate Go Ahead Eagles—and Ruud van Nistelrooy coming in. The latter two are also now gone, alongside Erik ten Hag, Jelle ten Rouwelaar and Pieter Morel, costing the club £10.4million.
Five years ago, Sir Jim Ratcliffe told The Times that United "have been the dumb money," using Fred, who the club had paid £52million to sign from Shakhtar Donetsk some 18 months earlier, as an example. "Ineos never wants to be the dumb money in town, never, never," he said.
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