Now made public how much compensation Manchester United paid Dan Ashworth – Staggering | OneFootball

It has now been revealed just how much Manchester United paid to Dan Ashworth in compensation.

The quarterly update on Manchester United financials making this information public.

Dan Ashworth was paid a staggering £4.1m by Manchester United.

The compensation Man U eventually paid Newcastle United remains confidential (varying figures claimed in the media but around £5m appears to have been the most likely figure), when NUFC eventually allowed Ashworth to leave once Paul Mitchell was ready to replace him.

However, considering they employed Dan Ashworth for only five months, the total cost for Manchester United must be a staggering amount. Ashworth’s wages for the brief time he was actually at Old Trafford, the £4.1m compensation then paid when he was sacked, plus the unknown millions that had to be paid for Newcastle United to release him from his gardening leave early.

You have to laugh!!!

As you can see below, Manchester United also paid £10.4m to sack and compensate Erik ten Hag and his backroom staff. So £14.5m in ‘exceptional’ costs paid out in just this latest quarter.

This doesn’t include of course what Man U have had to pay Sporting to get Amorim, nor what they will have to pay in compensation when in the near future they end up sacking this current failing manager and his backroom staff!

Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazers and absolute disgrace, sacking hundreds of low paid staff and also sacking their club legend Fergie as a club ambassador.

Ratcliffe is an absolute embarrassment with his arrogant public utterances BUT reality is that we should applaud him, as he has turned Manchester United from a very badly run club under the Glazers, to now an absolute shambles.

The Athletic report – 19 February 2025:

‘Manchester United paid £4.1m in compensation to sporting director Dan Ashworth following his departure earlier this season, according to the club’s latest financial results.

Manchester United’s figures for the second quarter of the 2024-25 season reveal a total of £14.5m in exceptional costs related to the departures of Ashworth, manager Erik ten Hag and his backroom staff.

The Old Trafford club’s first-quarter results revealed the cost of dismissing Ten Hag and his staff to be £10.4m.

Ashworth subsequently left his role as sporting director in early December, only five months after officially joining Manchester United from former club Newcastle United.