Wilcox is a former England winger who won the Premier League with Blackburn in 1994-95.<\/p>\n
He joined United in April 2024 – initially as technical director after 15 months in a similar role at Manchester City<\/a>, where he had previously been in charge of the academy.<\/p>\n At City he worked with current United chief executive Omar Berrada and also Stephen Torpey, who was appointed United’s head of academy in August 2025.<\/p>\n When he arrived, it was said by United officials that Wilcox would work across all technical areas of the club to achieve “highest standards of performance” and would be answerable to the sporting director.<\/p>\n That changed the following December, when that sporting director – Dan Ashworth – was sacked<\/a> amid a difference of opinion over who should replace Erik ten Hag as manager.<\/p>\n Ten months on, a poor series of results and dissatisfaction with transfer business has put Wilcox in the spotlight.<\/p>\n There are some who have sympathy with the position Wilcox finds himself in. The 55-year-old is not in charge of transfer budgets, which are set at a higher level.<\/p>\n Wilcox was also – obviously – not responsible for the injury Manuel Ugarte sustained<\/a> playing for Uruguay at the World Cup, which wrecked a plan to sell the midfielder in the summer to bolster the transfer budget.<\/p>\n