It’s not a stretch to say that a sporting director is more important at a club than a football manager. As a sporting director, you control the brand of football at the club, who the team targets, and the overarching philosophy that every manager must follow. Mitchell has previous experience at MK Dons, Southampton, Tottenham…
Several Man United players are currently away on international duty but Erik ten Hag will be concerned to see both Marcus Rashford and Andre Onana substituted. Manchester United look to have suffered yet more injury misery with both Marcus Rashford and Andre Onana forced off on international duty. Onana started in goal for Cameroon’s World…
The Seagulls are known to be shrewd operators when ot comes to recruitment and their policy of attracting and developing some of the finest talent in the world has delivered success at the highest level. Brighton finished sixth in the Premier League last term and qualified for the Europa League for the first time in…
Sir Jim Ratcliffe will lean on Sir Alex Ferguson for advice has he begins to formulate plans for his Manchester United overhaul. The British billionaire is set to buy a 25% stake in the Premier League giants and has already pledged £250m to help begin upgrading United’s crumbling infrastructure.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe is set to finalise his 25 per cent minority takeover at Manchester United as plans for the future at Old Trafford and beyond start to take shape. Over a year since the much-maligned Glazer family announced a strategic review to their ownership, the Premier League giants are ready to be pushed in a different direction. However, for the time being…
Gareth Southgate says he thinks Marcus Rashford is ‘okay’ after the Manchester United star was injured during England’s win over Malta.
It would be typical to watch Marcus Rashford rekindle his goal-den touch while on international duty. Despite their early-season woes, United crept back into top-four contention before the November break and they have done so without their talisman firing on all cylinders. Sparking-up just one would do right now. Rashford plundered 30 goals in all…
Prospective Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is exploring potential candidates for the sporting director role at the club, and one of the names on his list is Lee Congerton, Atalanta’s head of senior recruitment. Ratcliffe, who is set to become a minority shareholder at Old Trafford with his $1.6bn (£1.3bn/€1.5bn) proposal, aims to revamp…
Hannibal Mejbri made just his second Premier League start for Manchester United against Burnley and although supporters didn’t unveil a ‘play you like mean it banner’ until six weeks later, he did exactly that. Hannibal ran 12.9 kilometres at Turf Moor, a record for a United player since they began gathering the data in…
There was a sense that Erik ten Hag was ahead of schedule in his Manchester United rebuild last season. A third-place finish and a trophy after six barren seasons have bought the Reds boss time with the current campaign slipping from his grasp. United have regressed this term and are now perhaps behind the…
