With Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos chasing a host of ‘best in class’, behind-the-scenes appointments at Manchester United, the Red Devils could – for the first time in recent memory – find themselves operating like a genuinely elite-level club in the transfer market. Gone – hopefully, anyway – are the last-gasp trolley dashes, the panic signings, and the months of drawn-out, very public transfer sagas. If the sudden and unexpected appointment of Omar Berrada as the club’s new CEO is anything to go by, Ineos prefer to do things swiftly, quietly, and in the shadows, even if those Dan Ashworth dela…
