Manchester United poach Manchester City exec Omar Berrada as Brailsford exits cycling
Manchester United are set to appoint Omar Berrada from Manchester City as their new chief executive.
The Athletic have reported that United have been looking for a CEO to succeed Richard Arnold, who left Old Trafford ahead of INEOS agreeing to buy a 25 per cent stake in the club.
That search has led them to move for Berrada, one of the key men behind the recent on and off-field success enjoyed by local rivals City.
Meanwhile Sir Dave Brailsford, the mastermind behind Team Sky and its Ineos-Grenadiers successor, has stepped away from cycling to focus on his new role at United.
As the chief sporting adviser to the Ineos chairman, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Brailsford is to concentrate on an audit into the club Ratcliffe paid £1.25bn to buy a quarter share of and take control of sporting affairs.
Brailsford, after his success as performance director of British Cycling, founded Team Sky in 2010, winning its first Tour de France in 2012, Bradley Wiggins taking the first of seven of eight editions until 2019 by four riders, Chris Froome collecting four. The team collected five further Grand Tours under the Sky and Ineos banner that followed a rebrand in 2019.
The Derbyshire-born but Welsh-bred Brailsford has been team principal throughout that time, only for his name to be removed from their website on Friday. A team spokesman did not confirm his departure. He will remain involved but that change of status “reflects Sir Dave’s position as director of Ineos Sport”.
Before Ratcliffe’s move for a stake in United, Brailsford was working with Nice, second in France’s Ligue 1 table. Ineos also own the Swiss club Lausanne, Sir Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup team and has a share in the Mercedes F1 team.
Since Ratcliffe’s deal with the Glazer
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