Man Utd set to confirm Ashworth as sporting director

Manchester United are adjacent to confirming Dan Ashworth is clear to commencement activity arsenic their caller sporting director.

Ashworth, 53, has been connected gardening time off since February aft telling Newcastle United he wanted to subordinate nan revamped set-up nether Ineos astatine Old Trafford.

The erstwhile Football Association and Brighton method head had been group to take Newcastle to arbitration successful an effort to resoluteness nan impasse complete nan move.

But it is understood talks betwixt nan clubs led to an out-of-court colony being agreed precocious past week that leaves Ashworth free to return up his caller domiciled pinch contiguous effect.

In an question and reply pinch nan BBC's Sports Editor Dan Roan successful February, caller Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe said it "doesn’t make consciousness for Dan Ashworth to beryllium sat astir doing thing for 18 months".

Ashworth antecedently worked astatine West Brom, nan Football Association and Brighton earlier joining Newcastle successful 2022.

He has a long-standing narration pinch Ineos caput of athletics Sir Dave Brailsford, making love backmost to Ashworth's spell astatine nan FA.

Ashworth joins a revamped activity group astatine Old Trafford aft Jason Wilcox joined as method head from Southampton, while elder erstwhile Manchester City executive, Omar Berrada, is group to subordinate arsenic main executive.

The changes travel Sir Jim Ratcliffe becoming a number owner of nan nine earlier this year, a move which saw his Ineos Group return complaint of shot operations.

A disappointing run past play ended pinch nan nine winning nan FA Cup and pursuing a reappraisal by nan club's committee it was confirmed earlier this period that Erik 10 Hag would stay arsenic manager.