United are working to recruit Southampton's director of football, who has already played a major role in developing talent across the city
are in a hurry. No sooner had they made Dan Ashworth, ’s sporting director, their top target to fill the same role at Old Trafford — he has now been placed on gardening leave at St James’ Park after asking to leave — The Athletic exclusively revealed . Advertisement Wilcox, the 53-year-old former academy director at and current director of football at St Mary’s after moving there last summer, is highly regarded within the industry and United want him to become a key figure in the new hierarchy.
wants to create. United will want Wilcox in place sooner rather than later, but have shown in their negotiations with Newcastle over Ashworth that they are not prepared to pay over the top to hurry the process along. Berrada, who will not begin his role as CEO until the summer, knows Wilcox from their time together at City and tried to keep him at the Etihad Stadium — including offering him an improved contract — before he decided to gain experience in a first-team role elsewhere.
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