Man City \u2018cannot believe\u2019 Manchester United have landed Omar Berrada as their new CEO FIVERio Ferdinand has revealed that staff within Manchester City \u2018cannot believe\u2019 Manchester United have managed to snag Omar Berrada as their new CEO. City confirmed Berrada\u2019s departure on Saturday, with the Spaniard resigning from his role with the treble winners to move across town to become United\u2019s new chief executive. Berrada had spent the last nine years at the Etihad Stadium, the last three-and-a-half of which had been spent as City\u2019s chief football operations officer. \u201cManchester City Football Club can confirm that Omar Berrada has resigned from his role as chief football operations officer at City Football Group,\u201d the Blues said in a statement. \u201cThe club understands his decision to look for a new challenge and he leaves with our thanks and best wishes.\u201d Berrada could be one of Manchester United\u2019s \u2018best signings\u2019 United had been searching for a new CEO after Richard Arnold announced his decision to step down from the position ahead of Sir Jim Ratcliffe\u2019s INEOS group acquiring a 25 per cent stake in the club. The new minority owners were keen to appointment someone with extensive experience in football after the previous two chief executives \u2013 Arnold and Ed Woodward \u2013 had banking backgrounds. They have found their man in Berrada, who also spent eight years at Barcelona before joining the City group. United great Ferdinand says that the people he has spoken to within City have been left stunned by the move. \u201cI spoke to some guys who are at City and they cannot believe we\u2019ve got him,\u201d Ferdinand said on his FIVE podcast. \u201cThey think, wow\u2026 He\u2019s done so much in the game at different levels and he\u2019s been successful and it\u2019s a really good, sharp signing for us. Topic starts at 23:26 \u201cI think this could potentially be one of our best January signings. From the current climate where we\u2019re at now especially.\u201d Though Berrada cannot officially assume his role until the summer, United appear excited about the announcement. In a statement, the club said: \u201cThe club is determined to put football and performance on the pitch back at the heart of everything we do. Omar\u2019s appointment represents the first step on this journey. \u201cAs one of the most experienced football executives at the top of European football, Omar brings a wealth of football and commercial expertise, with a proven record of successful leadership and a passion to help lead change across the club. He is currently serving as Chief Football Operations Officer for City Football Group overseeing 11 clubs across five continents and, prior to this, held senior roles at Barcelona. \u201cIt is our stated ambition to re-establish Manchester United as a title-winning club. We are pleased that Omar will be joining us to help achieve that goal, so that, once again, United fans can see, in the words of Sir Matt Busby, the red flag flying high at the summit of English, European and world football.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man City \u2018cannot believe\u2019 Manchester United have landed Omar Berrada as their new CEO FIVERio Ferdinand has revealed that staff within Manchester City \u2018cannot believe\u2019 Manchester United have managed to snag Omar Berrada as their new CEO. City confirmed Berrada\u2019s departure on Saturday, with the Spaniard resigning from his role with the treble winners to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}