Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published Monday, April 14, 2025, 14:48 / Updated Monday, April 14, 2025 14:48
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Manchester United's shareholder, wants to bring an engineer from Formula 1 to the database in the perspective of future purchases.
Manchester United has made many expensive transfers in recent years, but which have eventually proved to be harmful. And this was also reflected in the field, where the “devils” are in an accelerated peel, and in the club, forced to dismiss many employees, in the absence of money in the Champions League, where it was last in 2023-2024, when it stopped in the group stage.
To stop the drop, shareholder Jim Ratcliffe decided to resort to his contacts in Formula 1, where his company, Ineos, is a co -owner at “Mercedes F1”. From there he will bring the engineer Michael Sansoni, whose job at United will be to develop the club's database.
Jim Ratcliffe: “We are still in the last century with the database and the analysis of the data”
The reason it is already exposed, at a meeting with the members of the fanclub “United We Stand”: “We are still in the last century with the database and the analysis of the data, we must bring to the level of the other clubs. It is closely related to the recruitment of the players.
There is a huge amount of useful data that we can get from the data analysis and for now we are in the “very weak” category in this chapter. The upgrade we want to do does not happen overnight. ”
Much money thrown on stars who have not confirmed
United has spent over 900 million pounds on transfers in the last five seasons, a figure outdated by Chelsea, Arsenal and neighbor Manchester City. All three rivals are currently fighting for European places, while United is on the 14th place in the Premier League ranking – after winning only 10 of the 32 matches played this season!
Transfers that have proven so many failures in recent years? Antony, taken in 2022 with 85 million pounds from Ajax, now borrowed at Betis, Jadon Sancho, ceded to Chelsea this season, after his purchase from Dortmund (73 million) did not go according to plan, or Andre Onana, the goalkeeper taken in 2023 from Inter, with 43 million pounds, are just a few examples.
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