Dan Ashworth has now taken on new role | OneFootball

It was revealed last week how much it had cost Manchester United to sack Dan Ashworth.

The Man U accounts showing it had cost the Old Trafford club £4.1m.

Dan Ashworth having worked for his new bosses at Man U for only five months, once Newcastle United had reached agreement with Paul Mitchell and Manchester United then allowed to pay the compensation to release Ashworth early from his gardening leave at NUFC.

Now in a new exclusive, The Times report (see below) that Dan Ashworth has agreed to take on a new role.

The former Newcastle United Sporting Director changing sports and working for nothing.

Dan Ashworth will act as a voluntary adviser to Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

I suppose fair to say he can afford to do so, with what he pocketed from the clowns at Manchester United.

‘Dan Ashworth is taking an advisory role with Warwickshire County Cricket Club after leaving Manchester United.

Ashworth joined [Manchester] United as technical director last summer but left after only five months working for Sir Jim Ratcliffe at Old Trafford.

The 53-year-old had previously held similar roles with Newcastle United, Brighton & Hove Albion and at the FA.

He already has a relationship with Warwickshire, having joined their cricket audit committee in 2021. That honorary role involved oversight of what Warwickshire called their elite teams and high-performance structure.

Warwickshire are set to announce a new performance director in the coming days but it is not thought that Ashworth was considered, not least because of the relatively low salary the role attracts compared with his previous jobs. He will instead work with the county as a voluntary adviser on a range of matters including high performance, drawing on his experience in football.’

The Mag report – 19 February 2025:

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.

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.

Manchester United’s results reveal the cost of a season of turbulence so far at Old Trafford, with the £14.5m in exceptional costs contributing to the club recording a second-quarter loss of £27.7m.’