The Glazers<\/a> persisted with a business-heavy approach for years, but Ratcliffe has introduced experienced football executives like Omar Berrada<\/a> and Jason Wilcox<\/a> to the club, after the pair impressed in their previous roles at Man City.<\/p>\n Furthermore, there has been a greater emphasis on signing young talent in the transfer market. Director of Recruitment, Christopher Vivell<\/a>, is believed to be playing a big role in helping the scouting department identify the best players.<\/p>\n Are you happy with Ineos and Sir Jim Ratcliffe? <\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n While there have been several appointments since the arrival of Ratcliffe, there have also been plenty of redundancies and departures. The biggest shock in recent times came as Jonny Evans decided to step away from his role<\/a> as Head of Loans and Pathways, despite taking the job just six months ago.<\/p>\n Newly appointed academy director Steve Torpey<\/a> will take over Evans\u2019 role as Head of Loans and Pathways while United seek a long-term replacement.<\/p>\n Evans isn\u2019t the only former United player to leave the club in recent times.<\/p>\n It is also understood that former defender Phil Jones<\/a> is no longer helping to coach the youth teams, which he had been doing while working on his coaching badges.<\/p>\n Nicky Butt<\/a>, who spent 12 years in United\u2019s first team<\/a> after graduating from the academy<\/a>, knows a thing or two about returning to the club and becoming a member of staff.<\/p>\n Butt worked with the academy for years after retiring, but he now features regularly on podcasts, including a new episode of No Tippy Tappy Football<\/a> with Sam Allardyce. He gave his view on the reduction of former players in various roles at United.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s easy for me to sit here as a former Man United player and say this is not right,\u201d Butt said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not my prerogative to tell the powers that be how to do things. But, I do believe Man United is a different kettle of fish, it\u2019s not only a football club, it\u2019s an institution.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cYou need people in the background to know what the club is like. So when things are going bad for certain people, they just put their arm around them and say, \u2018This is what we do, we stick together\u2019. The only problem I\u2019ve got with the football club is that they\u2019re losing that.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t know why they [Evans and Jones] have left, but it doesn\u2019t look great, especially when they\u2019re doing as bad as they are. Surely they\u2019re the type of guys you want to stay. <\/p>\n \u201cSir Alex\u2019s model was always wanting to keep old players around, and put them in certain levels with what they want to do. That\u2019s changed over the years, and it\u2019s down to the fact that the owners who have come in don\u2019t believe in that. The philosophy behind that institution, you have to have people around who know the football club.\u201d<\/p>\n Interestingly, Butt referenced Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a>, who is the only manager he played under as a first-team player at United.<\/p>\n Who is Manchester United\u2019s best manager since Sir Alex Ferguson? <\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Ferguson leaned on former players during his time at Old Trafford<\/a>, such as Brian Kidd and Mike Phelan<\/a>, and Butt believes Amorim should take a page from the Scot\u2019s book.<\/p>\n While Darren Fletcher<\/a> is mentioned by Butt, the former Scotland international is the leading coach of the U18s, so he is not going to be working with Amorim on many first-team matters.<\/p>\n Man Utd first team coaches 2025<\/p>\n United\u2019s coaching staff has been led by Amorim since November 2024.<\/p>\n Amorim\u2019s arrival led to the departure of many coaches, including Ruud van Nistelrooy<\/a>, who had been brought to the club by Erik ten Hag<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are five key figures in Amorim\u2019s backroom staff, including:<\/p>\n Carlos Fernandes (assistant head coach)Adelio Candido (first team coach)Emanuel Ferro (first team coach)Jorge Vital (first team goalkeeping coach)Paulo Barreira (physical performance coach)<\/p>\n Other staff members include Michael Sansoni and Ben Parker as chief analysts.<\/p>\n Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n Receive a digest of our best United content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nicky Butt fears Manchester United have abandoned a model Sir Alex Ferguson used to help deliver success during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,126863,14471,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-321155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-nicky-butt","tag-sir-alex-ferguson","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Manchester](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2195543089-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Ash Donelon\/Manchester United via Getty ImagesNicky Butt concerns about Man Utd culture<\/p>\n