Man Utd chief responsible for £89million transfer return of Paul Pogba and David De Gea’s £300k-a-week contract resigns
MANCHESTER UNITED’S chief transfer negotiator has quit the club.
Matt Judge has gone less than a fortnight after Chief Scout Jim Lawlor and Head of Global Scouting Marcel Bout also left Old Trafford.
Judge, whose official title was head of corporate development, took over negotiating contracts and transfers back in 2016.
It is during his time that the expensive recruitment of players has come in for so much criticism, with Paul Pogba returning for £89million six years ago.
But his role in David de Gea's £350,000-a-week contract is now reaping rewards as the keeper is back to his brilliant best this season.
Judge, a former investment banker, joined United in 2012.
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He graduated from the same Bristol University as former Executive Vice-Chairman Ed Woodward and close friend Richard Arnold who took on Woodward’s role in April following his resignation.
The huge changes behind the scenes are being overseen by Football Director John Murtough.
He was influential in the appointment of new boss Erik ten Hag.
Murtough travelled to Amsterdam to interview the Ajax boss with Technical Director and former United title winning midfielder Darren Fletcher.
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As revealed in SunSport, the pair were taken aback by Ten Hag’s forthright views about what had been going wrong at the club during a £1billion splurge on players since Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager back in 2013.
Those words have clearly been taken on board with major changes being made throughout the football structure.
What Murtough has been keen on is keeping interim manager Ralf Rangnick as a sounding board for the next two years.
Despite agreeing to take on the role as Austria manager from the end of May he is staying on at Old Trafford in a consultative role.