Nice read. Thanks for sharing. It very much validates many of the points that some of us fans who are trying to call out the fact that our problems are bigger than the managers. What a shambles of a club we are currently. Ed needs to listen! Ed needs to understand his shortcomings and delegate the footballing side to someone who can run that part of the club.
Yes. The LVG interview highlights the structural problems at the club and the lack of any football plan. Even footbal decisions, such as managerial appointments and player signings are carried out with all emphasis on taking cynical commercialisation advantage. This is no way to build a coherent team. LVG is doing us a favour by letting us know the true extent of the commercial cynicism at the expense of football development.
Listening to Duncan Castle's podcast today and it is a damning picture of shambolic football naivety that emerges.
Chatting with supporters on the cafe today it seems there is a split in the support regarding Olé's permanent appointment reflects a far more dangerous and potentially cataclysmic split in the United set up. This split concerns the idiotic favouritism shown by the board, to average performing English players like Jones, Smalling, Rashford and Young who have all been given extended contracts while foreign players such as Hererra and DeGea have had their contracts run down. DeGea, easily our best player since Fergie left, wants out according to Duncan Castles because he feels disrespected and Hererra too felt undervalued after he was asked to take an actual cut in his salary. Such amateurish shenanigans from the board can have serious impact at this crucial moment of the rebuild.
Apparently this perceived favouritism has split the dressing room with the foreign players disgruntled and questioning both the board's and OSG's favouring of certain English players whom Woodward values regarding the commercial promotion of a sense of Manchester United's English romanticism. Bringing in Olé (a reminder of the class of 92)and possibly more of the class of 92, like Rio for technical director has been part of Woodward's romanticising PR feel good, marketing factor.
This will no doubt pay commercial dividends but is a very dangerous route to tread down regarding football dividends. There should be no place for nostslgia and romanticism today as other clubs prove ruthless in their pursuit of winning.
According to Castles the English players like 'Rashy' are fully behind their manager whereas the other group don't have faith in him. If this is all true then such a split could have some devastating consequences regarding our football performance level as team cohesion, togetherness, team morale and actual hunger and ambition will all be negatively affected with the potentiality for melt down.
So instead of we fans, calling each other out regarding those not supporting the manager Versus those having naive blind faith in him we'd be better off not focusing completely on Solksjaer but rather seeing the antagonism played out in this thread as symptomatic of a far deeper split in the United set up , caused entirely by even more shitty board decisions, a split that could have explosive consequences as we attempt to rebuild.