The team Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to REVOLUTIONISE Man United
Even by the usual standards, things are moving very quickly at Manchester United right now.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has been described as a 'man in a hurry' as the billionaire and his INEOS aides look to shake up the power structure at Old Trafford.
It doesn't take an INEOS root and branch review to realise that recruitment is one major area where United have been failing in the past decade.
Under legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson, the flow of talented players within the Premier League tended to be inexorably towards United, by far its most successful team.
Since Ferguson retired in 2013, the club's hierarchy tend to have prioritised headline-grabbing and eye-wateringly expensive signings in a vain effort to keep pace with their rivals.
But despite bringing in the likes of Paul Pogba, Romelu Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez and Cristiano Ronaldo for enormous transfer fees and/or wages, United have just drifted along in mediocrity.
Ratcliffe wants to change the culture, focusing on recruits who are ideally British and who fit into a longer-term plan for success rather than being quick fixes.
In so doing, he'll hope United can make up the ground they have ceded to the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal, whose recruitment has coherence and direction.
To accomplish this, Ratcliffe and INEOS want best-in-class appointments in influential positions.
They've already pulled off one coup in poaching the highly-regarded Omar Berrada from rivals City to become their new chief executive. But fans will be more interested in the recruitment side.
If United get their way, it looks like Dan Ashworth will come in as sporting director, with Jason Wilcox and Sam Jewell reporting in to him in an overhauled scouting and recruitment department.
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