Manchester United spent £10.4m to sack Erik ten Hag

Erik ten Hag and Ruben Amorim (Photograph by Octavio Passos, Gareth Copley/Getty Photographs)

Manchester United reportedly spent as a lot as £10.4million to sack Erik ten Hag and his employees once they determined to make a change and rent Ruben Amorim as supervisor.

Newest monetary outcomes from the Crimson Devils reveal how a lot it value the membership to terminate Ten Hag’s contract.

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See under because the Day by day Mail’s Chris Wheeler has reported on this, while additionally mentioning how a lot was required to take away Dan Ashworth after a brief spell as sporting director…

This determine additionally contains pay-off for sporting director Dan Ashworth. Compensation for Ten Hag & employees was beforehand given as £10.4m so Ashworth compo was £4.1m regardless of working at Utd for simply 159 days. #mufc https://t.co/cbEJiqjwhG

— Chris Wheeler (@ChrisWheelerDM) February 19, 2025

It has additionally beforehand been reported that Man Utd spent as a lot as £11m to rent Amorim and his employees from Sporting Lisbon.

That determine got here by way of the Guardian a number of months in the past, and simply exhibits the loopy sums of cash United have spent to only go backwards.

Ruben Amorim has barely improved on Erik ten Hag’s nightmare begin to the season

Amorim could find yourself being the higher selection for United in the long term, however for now the staff has solely gone from 14th to fifteenth within the Premier League desk for the reason that Portuguese tactician changed the Dutchman.

Man United supervisor Ruben Amorim in a press convention (Photograph by Carl Recine/Getty Photographs)

MUFC clearly took a little bit of a bet altering supervisor in the midst of the season, with Amorim combating this poor squad he’s inherited from Ten Hag.

Nonetheless, there may also absolutely be loads of followers, in addition to figures on the membership, who anticipated at the very least a bit higher than this.

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United want to enhance quickly, although even then this season is just about a write-off as there’s absolutely no probability they will put collectively a run that will be adequate to get them into Europe subsequent season.

Amorim will then hope to learn from having a full pre-season with United, and an extended switch window in the summertime, however the strain will actually be on after that.