To me Neville and his media friends are part of the rot at United.
It's VERY much like the Liverpool players in the 90s, early 2000's giving it loads about the glory days.
Things change, the game evolves and former great players doesn't mean great managers and knowing what is actually best for the club going forward.
Actually I think you're misinterpreting. It's not a double standard, he's keeping up with the standard he's talking about..Ole is the manager now and he won't disrespect him by talking about best of class etc. If he truly felt ole was great he'd have said it I think. But already hired so he can't comfortably criticize the appointment as he can w Phelan and Rio prior to them taking the roles
It's a blatant double standard and talking with rose tinted goggles on. The role he is discussing is extremely difficult to hire for and there is no exact answer as to how it should be done. There are examples of experience DOF's going into clubs and failing and vice versa of employees with no experience getting it spot on and turning clubs fortunes around.
He's talking about, sorry mocking ex players being linked with the role of DoF at United, so I'm guessing he thinks Ajax is a mitigated disaster?
He's saying "best in class" yet ignores the fact David Gill was exactly the same as Ed Woodward, a feckin accountant!
It's full of incorrect rhetoric but folks are doing the usual when Nev talks, running with it.
But who really cares about whatever personal agenda Neville may or may not have. Everything he says there is spot on. It doesn't matter at all how he comes to formulate that opinion.
It's not at all though. It's almost categorically incorrect. It's just sound bites and managerial jargon like "best in class".
He talks about best in class but in many instance with regards DoF, what usually works best is someone with no experience and coming in with a clean slate and learning from the ground up. Look at Ajax with Overmars. Edwards at Liverpool had the bare minimum of experience, he played for Peterborough Reserves... Reserves! Done some data analysis and the like after that and now is running the show at Liverpool.
Monchi the most obvious example, is considered to be the original DoF and was completely unqualified and clubs all over Europe followed his template.
He talks of "best in class" so much but dodges the question from David Jones when asked about "best in class" managers, but yet the manager role is sacred to him and he'll never call for a managers head, has no issue calling for CEO's to be sacked though?
He rounds out his rant with the most idiotic statement that had me in knots about if a manager is ever told no and gone against then he is done for? I mean, really? Like seriously?
FFS, Ferguson was told no so much by Edwards he quit. He was told no by Edwards no so much right after doing a double, then the double double and 3 years later a treble! One year later he said he'd had enough and would retire at the end of 2001! The only reason he done a u-turn was because a new CEO was on the horizon.
Almost everything he said is actually categorically and factually incorrect.