The board splashed massive amount on Pogba but apart from that they're always usual suspects since the Glazer takeover. Sir Alex somehow managed and his last season was taking the league by a storm. There's a bit of an empty void even to this day in understanding how Manchester United should work as a whole. Woodward was waiting for someone like Mourinho for too long and now it seems Mourinho needs time understanding how the club works. No guarantees he will ever understand...
Appointment of LvG was a mistake in the end and for that it's definitely board's headache. Next month should answer a lot of questions, also third year of Mourinho will rule out many excuses of new manager coming to the club but the board can easily use Mourinho as a shield and dump entire blame on him and next managers. The vicious cycle.
Sounds like you're describing Perisic and J.Rodriguez - two players we could and probably should have in our squad for a good year or two. This club's sometimes so slow with reforming itself. It seems like we're waiting to take the opportunities to get the players that at some point are even sending signs themselves to United - "come and get me".
Still time to fix things and avoid LvG scenario, I want to be positive but it's not that simple. Something needs to be done to stop United fanbase from being divided and giving the the logical reason behind believing in a title race.
