Manchester United want former Liverpool coach who 'found' one of club's best ever signings as new sporting director
It’s going to be all change at Manchester United as Sir Jim Ratcliffe closes in on his £1.3bn purchase of a 25% stake in the club.
As part of that deal, he will take control of all football operations at Old Trafford, with it already confirmed that CEO Richard Arnold will leave the club as a result. He only succeeded Ed Woodward in the position 18 months ago.
Meanwhile, he is also reportedly considering a change of director of football, with John Murtough’s position believed to be vulnerable. The Telegraph reports that Crystal Palace sporting director Dougie Freedman, former Monaco chief Paul Mitchell (who was previously linked with Liverpool), former AC Milan pair Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara, Atletico Madrid’s Andrea Berta, and Atalanta’s Lee Congerton are all under consideration.
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Liverpool fans will perhaps be relieved that their own former sporting director, Michael Edwards, is not a name on such a list. He has been linked with a position at Manchester United in the past, after all.
Yet one of those aforementioned targets is both a boyhood Reds fan and former Liverpool coach, as well as someone who has quietly played a small but influential role behind some Anfield transfer dealings.
Congerton spent three years at Liverpool between 2002 and 2005, working as an Academy coach during Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez’s managerial reigns. Yet it was actually only after leaving the Reds and moving to Chelsea in 2005, initially appointed as a youth team coach under Jose Mourinho, where he inadvertently made a more influential impact
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