{"id":225724,"date":"2026-03-02T00:51:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-sacking-amorim-could-cost-man-utd-16-million\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:51:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:51:47","slug":"nigeria-sacking-amorim-could-cost-man-utd-16-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-sacking-amorim-could-cost-man-utd-16-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Sacking Amorim Could Cost Man Utd \u00a316 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Manchester United&#8217;s decision to sack Ruben Amorim as their manager could end up costing the Premier League giants almost \u00a316 million ($22 million) according to financial figures released by the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Amorim&#8217;s turbulent 14-month reign came to an end on January 5 following the Portuguese boss&#8217;s public attack on United&#8217;s hierarchy, with his five coaches also following him out of Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A United filing to the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday disclosed the possible payments to Amorim and his&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270385.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United&#8217;s decision to sack Ruben Amorim as their manager could end up costing the Premier League giants almost \u00a316 million ($22 million) according to financial figures released by the club. Amorim&#8217;s turbulent 14-month reign came to an end on January 5 following the Portuguese boss&#8217;s public attack on United&#8217;s hierarchy, with his five coaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,53794,6629,6867,5118,257,4687,393,22738,254,19578],"class_list":["post-225724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amorim","tag-cost","tag-man","tag-million","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sacking","tag-south-africa-today","tag-utd"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}