Maradona10
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Important Points from article-
- Doubts Ed woodward and his negotiating skills, calls him a man amongst boys
- Says he doesnt like mourinho but knows he is a winner, he will not be content with top 4, which Glazers and Woodward are content with.
- United are ok with the football side until the club is finishing top 4, they dont really want to compete for the title (Note -Same thing was said by Castles)
- United are playing catch up to Other top 4 competitors but are outspent by City,Chelsea etc
- Mourinho is not shy of internal conflict he wants to win, woodward does not know who he has put in charge. Mou is a fierce competitor and will turn pressure on woodward unless he delivers
- Mou doesnt want to play 2nd fiddle to pep, unless he is given the Equal or more finances to compete he is not interested in the club cause he wants to win and take club back to the top.
- Says although he doesnt Like mourinho, he thinks Mourinho is right on this ocassion, Glazers have spent some money but they have taken out more, need to dig deeper to compete.
- Woodward is not close to any good negotiators in other clubs including David dein, Gill, levy etc.Woodward only good for signing noodle partners not players
- 1/3rd of the players against Burnley not good enough,Woodward's Philosophy is based on Glitz and image as seen in his pitch to Jurgen klopp for the united job calling it "adult version of disneyland"
- Further criticizes lack in a structured transfer policy by Woodward.
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I think he makes very valid points, united are more concerned with making money than with football. City on the other hand want to make everything about football and build a brand from there, their means although from Oil money, yet they are using that money effectively on the football pitch.
On other hand we as a club are run as a business first, its more important for us to sign network partners in India rather than sign a player that we need. I remember in the summer while mourinho was going on about wanting players before going to pre season, ed woodward went to play golf or see some event. That is the attitude that needs to change.
Here is a hard Hitting fact, Mike ashley has put in 250 million of his money into the club, that is 250 million more than what glazers have put in. The real issue is our fans are finding the manager easy to blame when squad has seen poor management for several years, firstly because of lack of investment under ferguson which allowed likes of City to catch us, along with poor long term transfer strategy that allowed them to surpass us on every level including youth football, recruitment, staff management and coaching. Until there is a change in the attitude of the club, untill rather than wanting to be disneyland for adults , we want to be serious football club, we will kepp on failing no matter who the manager is.
Even if we had pep and jose was at city, city would be ahead of united because he would get the players he wants, he would get the enviornment he wants and pep would be signing on Mr potato boxes while ander herrera sells them to us. Pep couldnt change the fullbacks like he did at city, he wouldnt have quality signings that were already there when he arrived and he certainly would not be backed like he has been at city.
I think the club wanted us to believe we pick and chose David moyes while reality is that we were forced to go with him as no one wanted to follow ferguson as that was a dead man walking job. They were all proved to be right as we had a poor squad with gross under investment with a new guy becoming head of football operations. It was better avoided by Pep,Klopp, ancelotti etc. We need a change in the mentality of the club rather than the manager, Otherwise we might be the most sponsored club, but we will not be the best or even close to it. Football has created the business for united, it creats the fans, it creates the money, if glazers and Woodward continue to mis manage, we might even see us fall as a business eventually too.