Manchester United Paid Ruben Amorim $8.5 Million Pay-Off After January Sacking
The short version
- Manchester United paid Ruben Amorim £8.5m after sacking him in January.
- The payout is just over half of the sum paid to Erik ten Hag in 2024.
- Amorim's move to AC Milan reduced an initially recorded £16.7m exposure.
- United posted record revenues of £677.6m but a pre-tax loss of nearly £47m.
- Revenue guidance for next year is £740m-£760m with a Champions League return.
United's latest accounts show the cost of dismissing Ruben Amorim, offset in part by his move to AC Milan, alongside record revenues for 2025/26.
Manchester United's latest financial results show the club paid Ruben Amorim £8.5 million after terminating his contract in January. The Portuguese coach was dismissed after 14 months in charge, with a 1-1 draw at Leeds United proving the final match of his tenure.
Amorim had been halfway through a two-and-a-half-year deal, and the payout covers the early end of that contract. The figure is still only just over half of what the club paid Erik ten Hag when he was dismissed in 2024, three months after United had triggered a one-year extension following their FA Cup win.
United's costs linked to Amorim's exit were initially recorded at £16.7 million as an exceptional item in the third-quarter results published in May. That number was understood to represent the club's maximum exposure for the departure of the manager and his staff, and it has since been reduced because Amorim took the AC Milan job.
The accounts also showed record revenues of £677.6 million for the year ended June 30, up from £666.5 million the previous year, despite United not playing in European competition. The club still posted a pre-tax loss of nearly £47 million.
United's wage bill fell by £11.3 million, or 3.6 percent, to £302 million, which the club attributed to changes in the men's first-team squad and staff reduction programs over the past two years. Chief executive Omar Berrada said the record revenues and adjusted EBITDA demonstrated the underlying strength of the business in a season without European football.
With United back in the Champions League, the club has set revenue guidance of £740 million to £760 million for next year.
