Billionaire must cull to increase budget and embarks on crucial summer without clarity over next season’s manager
Sir Jim Ratcliffe is heading into the febrile football market with Erik ten Hag’s future at Manchester United still unclear.Sir Jim Ratcliffe is heading into the febrile football market with Erik ten Hag’s future at Manchester United still unclear.
Omar Berrada, Ratcliffe’s incoming chief executive, is still on gardening leave, as is Dan Ashworth, the sporting director. Whereas Berrada is expected to be freed from the terms of his departure from Manchester City to begin work soon, Ashworth may not arrive from Newcastle until the season has commenced, so Jason Wilcox, the technical director, is leading transfer policy, alongside Ratcliffe and Ratcliffe’s key adviser, Sir Dave Brailsford, with Jean-Claude Blanc deputising for Berrada.
Serious offers for Bruno Fernandes would begin at a minimum £70m but the captain is rated by Ratcliffe et al as United’s finest footballer. There is no push to sell but the Portuguese wants an increase on his salary of about £220,000 a week to be in the top bracket of United earners at £300,000-a-week-plus and is keen to know the club’s direction, so the dilly-dallying over the manager cannot have impressed.
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