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Manchester United's Polly Bancroft is ready to go away her function as head of girls's soccer on the finish of the season.
United confirmed her departure this afternoon and stated she would turn out to be CEO of Grimsby City FC, who’re within the fourth tier of the EFL.
Bancroft arrived at United in October 2022 to take up the function of newly-created head of girls's soccer.
She had beforehand labored in the identical place at Brighton and Hove Albion.
She was tasked with overseeing the strategic route, operations and efficiency of the ladies's first crew and academy.
Her first main problem on the membership was to barter contract extensions for Alessia Russo and Oona Battle on the finish of the earlier season, though she was unsuccessful.
Battle moved to Barcelona on a free switch whereas Rousseau moved to WSL rivals Arsenal.
It’s believed that Bancroft's departure is a part of INEOS' bid to restructure forward of the summer time switch window.
In addition to supporting head coach Mark Skinner and his workers, Bancroft is credited with serving to United result in main enhancements to the infrastructure for the ladies's crew, together with a brand new unique coaching facility at Carrington.
Underneath his tenure, the ladies's crew's help base and revenues have elevated, with attendances for video games at Leigh Sports activities Village steadily growing and over 150,000 tickets bought for WSL video games at Previous Trafford.
Bancroft will stay in his function till the top of the season whereas the seek for his successor continues.
It’s believed that United followers will see the primary of many adjustments to each the boys's and ladies's groups as Sir Jim Ratcliffe seems to be to revamp United.