’s board of directors will meet on Thursday following . In return for that investment, Ratcliffe wants control over and responsibility for sporting decisions at Old Trafford. Essentially, he wants to reshape the football part of this football club in the INEOS image. Advertisement That would typically bring the manager’s position into question, as a potted history of recent takeovers shows. Thomas Tuchel lasted less than 100 days of the Boehly-Clearlake era at .
As director of INEOS Sport, Brailsford ensures each department — football, cycling, sailing, rugby and marathon running — is aligned with the group’s wider, federalist business structures and his reforms at Nice are instructive for United fans wondering what a Ratcliffe-led sporting department could look like. The former British Cycling performance director would be expected to have a key role in any INEOS reshuffle behind the scenes.