Coach Erik ten Hach may have been happy to receive a notice of replacement from Manchester United. The wallet has become thick.
Manchester United announced the replacement of Coach Ten Hag on its official website on the 28th of last month (Korea time). Manchester United head coach Ten Hach is leaving the Manchester United first team. Ten Hag took over in April 2022 and won the 2023 Carabao Cup and 2024 FA Cup. I wish him good luck in the future."
When Ten Hach was replaced, the estimated penalty from the UK amounted to 17 million pounds (about 30 billion won). Manchester United fans were furious at the club's strange judgment. Last summer, Ten Hag was on the verge of being replaced. If Manchester United had found another manager, Ten Hag would not have even started the 2024-2025 season.
However, Manchester United failed to reach an agreement with another manager and eventually chose to accompany Ten Hag. Manchester United's leadership, who decided to accompany Ten Hag, decided to extend Ten Hag's contract by one year. It was a judgment to empower coach Ten Hach, but there were many evaluations that it was too premature at the time.
As a result, the re-signing came back to Manchester United's poison. This is because the size of the annual salary that has to be compensated has grown because Ten Hach was replaced. It was not £17 million, but the size of Ten Hag's replacement penalty was significant.
The British Telegraph reported on the 28th that Manchester United's latest quarterly financial report released this week showed a penalty of 10.4 million pounds (about 19 billion won) for Ten Hag, who signed a new contract in June. The £10.4 million needed to fire Ten Hach also included compensation for other departing employees."
This cost would have been greatly reduced if he had not re-signed with coach Ten Hach before the start of the season. Manchester United invested more than 600 million pounds (about 1.613 trillion won) under coach Ten Haq, but had two trophies and the worst league performance in two and a half seasons.
The decision to accompany coach Ten Hag itself resulted in a failure. There is an additional cost accordingly. An additional penalty was incurred when coach Huveng Amorim was brought in from Sporting Lisbon. The investment to bring Amorim back from Sporting was about 11 million pounds (about 19.5 billion won).
Manchester United spent £21.4 million (about 37.9 billion won) on the replacement and appointment of the coach this season alone. Recently, Manchester United's leaders have been strongly criticized by Manchester United fans in deciding the club's financial problems, such as replacing Alex Ferguson from the board of directors and raising ticket prices.
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