It would reportedly cost Manchester United £20 million to sack Ruben Amorim and his coaching staff due to “water-tight clauses” in their respective contracts.
The Sun reveals the Red Devils’ head coach would receive every penny of the money owed on his remaining two-and-half-year deal due to the iron-clad contract.
Amorim, 40, is believed to earn around £6 million a year, meaning it would cost £12 million to dismiss the Portuguese coach this summer.
However, Amorim brought almost his entire Sporting CP coaching staff when he swapped Lisbon for Manchester in November.
And The Sun reveals these coaches have similarly strong clauses in their contracts.
This means the “total cost of the P45s for Amorim and his coaches hit a whopping £20 million”, should INEOS choose to pull the trigger.
However, the report maintains there is “no suggestion under-fire part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has any plans to dump the Portuguese”, despite the Reds’ dismal form in the Premier League.
United are currently languished in 15th in the table, with a goal difference of -7, having already lost twelve times.
The team is on course for lowest finish in the division’s history, leading Amorim to cynically describe his players as the “worst” United side ever.
The only faint hope for salvaging a shocking season lies in the cup competitions, with United through to the next rounds of the FA Cup and Europa League respectively.
However, there is not thought to be any sense at Old Trafford of a loss in faith of Amorim from the club’s hierarchy.
Instead, they recognise how well the 40-year-old is coping with the pressure and believe he will be able to improve the team if backed in the transfer market this summer.
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Darragh Fox
Darragh is a writer for The Peoples Person who spent three years as a history graduate slowly realising football was by far the most interesting thing to write about.
