Dan Ashworth will hope to make better transfer decisions than his predecessors at Manchester United, who have missed out on some great players thanks to their penny pinching.
Ashworth is set to have overall responsibility for football performance, recruitment and operations at Old Trafford after the Red Devils fought for his release from Newcastle, which was finally confirmed earlier this week. .
He will work with new CEO Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox, who joined as the new technical director, in the new dawn at United under co-owner and head of football operations Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who bought a 27.7 per cent stake in the club from the Glazer family in February.
Nominal training compensation for Pedro Neto
On the back of Ashworth becoming the club s new sporting director, .
Moises Caicedo – who joined Chelsea in a British record fee of £115m last summer – had been monitored closely by the start of the January transfer window in 2021, when United were so confident of securing his signature that potential loan moves for him were lined up .
United backed away having been put off by a $2m release clause – which wasn t seen as an obstacle – suddenly doubling to $4m in a complex deal involving multiple agents . Caicedo instead joined an Ashworth-led Brighton in the same window.
The report also claims that in 2017 recruitment staff pushed for the club to pay a nominal training compensation to sign a 17-year-old Pedro Neto, who now stars for Wolves and Portugal and has been .
But those responsible for sanctioning a contract offer waited several weeks , Neto instead signed a new contract with Braga before joining Lazio on a two-year loan with an obligation to buy.
