I agree some of the decisions over the last 5 years transfer activity has been horrendous. I'm not sure who takes the blame, mind. Manager, coaches, scouts, or Woodward or the owners for employing someone in this position.The issue isn't that. Somehow, we have a squad in which our defenders cannot play football and our wingers cannot dribble. We have not been able to sell players either. In fact, our squad was so bad when mourinho came in, that de gea was the only guy that one could say should have been in the starting 11. Now we have reinforced and plugged a few gaps. However Woodward should have been able to decipher this, as any football person who knew the predicament of the squad under LVG would know. For me, since his role also includes selling players at value, woodward has done a poor job on the football side of things. His buys have been overpriced, with the ones under Moyes and Van Gaal being complete flops, his sales have been well below value, and the contracts handed have been shockingly high. He needs to focus on the finance side, and leave the negotiations to a new person.
Maybe Woodward has learnt from his past mistakes?