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Manchester United’s compensation bill for hiring and firing managers and sporting directors would exceed £100m since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement should Pochettino replace Carrick

🔴 Shed 322 staff in the past two years to drive down costs
🔴 Losses totalling £444m over past seven seasons
🔴 Pochetinno's exit clause worth about $10m (£7.4m)

@TelegraphDucker has the full story ⤵️
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⚽ Nice: No sustained improvement
⚽ Lausanne: Two promotions, two relegations
🚴 Netcompany-Ineos: Eighth in the world rankings
⛵ A nasty break-up with Sir Ben Ainslie
🏎️... at least Mercedes are champions

Whilst things at Manchester United are not rosy, there are problems at Ratcliffe’s other teams ⬇️
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Exclusive: Prime Minister says football “has a responsibility to the players who have given so much to it and the families now living with the consequences” as he calls for a compensation scheme for the victims of game’s dementia crisis

Plus, former Manchester United defender Gary Pallister wants heading restrictions in training ⤵️
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'When looking for a human sacrifice, this is a club searching in the wrong place yet again.'

@oliverbrown_tel argues that Michael Carrick is being made the fall guy as Manchester United's owners and executives face zero consequences ⤵️
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EXCLUSIVE: Gianni Infantino faces congressional subpoenas within weeks as his most powerful US critic expands investigations into Fifa’s ties with Donald Trump.

Senior Fifa insiders, speaking to The Telegraph on condition of anonymity, say legal demands to give evidence are likely as soon as January.

@Tom_Morgs and @connorstringer report ⤵️
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