Atalanta’s head of senior recruitment, Lee Congerton, is one of the names being considered by Sir Jim Ratcliffe for a sporting director role at Manchester United.
The Ineos chief, 71, will assume control of sporting operations at Old Trafford once he becomes a minority shareholder, with his £1.3billion proposal for a 25 per cent stake in the club
Ratcliffe is expected to overhaul the club’s off field personnel once he is in situ at his boyhood club; it has already been announced that chief executive ⊃ will depart in December, while Ratcliffe also wants to appoint a new sporting director in a bid to overhaul United’s current recruitment strategy.
Plenty of names have been touted for the role in recent weeks, but Congerton has now emerged as a new contender, per a report from The Telegraph. The 50-year-old, who previously had spells as a coach with Chelsea and Liverpool, has been in charge of senior recruitment at Atalanta since moving to Italy.
Congerton was influential in bringing Rasmus Hojlund to the Serie A outfit from Austria before he was sold to Manchester United in the summer transfer window. A report from The Athletic back in September outlined that Congerton believed the club should hold out for €100million (£87.5m) for the Denmark international’s services – a sum far below the £72m Atalanta eventually banked
While Congerton, who has held similar roles at Celtic and Leicester City, is under consideration for a key role in Ratcliffe’s new regime, plenty of other names remain in the frame.
