Taken from Grand Old team forum
Season 17/18
Season 16/17
- Davy Klaassen-£23,600,000
- Jordan Pickford-£25,000,000
- Nathangelo Markelo-undisclosed
- Michael Keane-£25,000,000
- Sandro-£5,200,000
- Henry Onyekuru-£7,000,000
- Wayne Rooney-Free
- Josh Bowler-£1,500,000
- Lewis Gibson-£6,000,000
- Nikola Vlašić-£10,000,000
- Boris Mathis-Free
- Cuco Martina-Free
- Gylfi Sigurdsson-£45,000,000
- Dennis Adeniran-undisclosed
- Theo Walcott-£20,000,000
- Cenk Tosun-£27,000,000
- Maarten Stekelenburg-£1,000,000
- Idrissa Gueye-£7,100,000
- Ashley Williams-£12,000,000
- Yannick Bolasie-£25,000,000
- Ademola Lookman-£7,500,000
- Morgan Schneiderlin-£24,000,000
https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/steve-walsh-with-the-benefit-of-hindsight.107101/
In other words, United need to absolutely avoid Steve Walsh like the plague.Walsh was awful at Everton. He set us back years. A good scout maybe but no Director of Football.
Marcel Brands was our first choice then and I wish we hadve waited on him.
Signing loads of players for the same position: Rooney, Klaassen and Sigurdsson. £80m right there plus around 350k a week in wages.
How were all 3 meant to play in the same position...
Signing Sandro on £120,000 a week wages. We’ve loaned him everywhere since and can’t give him away. He’ll be here till the last second of his contract is up.
£25m for Bolasie on huge wages. Again we can’t give him away.
Tosun..Walcott...
The 2/3 signings we got right when he was here were Gueye, Pickford and Sigurdsson.
We thought his success at Leicester would have been good for us too but no.
There was no strategy to the signings at all.
The worst run top club. It's also funny how Woodward has stopped giving bs statements that he used to 2 or 3 years ago. "Watch this space" crap. He is an incompetent CEO who is lucky that Glazers will never fire him. In any other top organisation he would have been fired multiple times.Does anybody sit back and reflect on what a bizarrely run club we are?
Woodward, hopefully.Does anybody sit back and reflect on what a bizarrely run club we are?
Fergie has reccomended him in a consultancy role allegedly, but Woodward doesn't like the idea and I agree with Woodward on this.Tweet
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The guy in question did a very shit job at Everton, why would we want him? Ed is right to reject that idea.Who the feck is Ed Woodward to think he knows better than Fergie?
Get that clown far away from any important football related decision making
its more like self harm, and it feels goodDoes anybody sit back and reflect on what a bizarrely run club we are?
SAF shouldn't be recommending anyone from Everton !Tweet
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Was Fergie right with Moyes recommendation?Who the feck is Ed Woodward to think he knows better than Fergie?
Get that clown far away from any important football related decision making
Been hearing quite a few stories over the years that they don't like each other and have their own respective "camps" of people on their sides. Makes me wonder if that played a part in SAF's decision to retire around the same time as Gill's departure.Amazing how stories are coming out that Saf and Ed are at loggerheads about this.
Is this the start of trying to oust Ed?
I don't know, obviously, but here's one thing I know: We don't need someone to consult. We need someone to do.What is the consultancy role exactly Sir Alex is thinking?
his first has done enough damage - agreed!SAF shouldn't be recommending anyone from Everton !
Maybe he is honest and hardworkingSAF shouldn't be recommending anyone from Everton !
Just watch, if we become one of the best team in Europe in the next 3 years. They'll be kissing Woodward's arses. Liverpool fans were pissing off about their DOF and the owners and calling for them to get out especially in the early 2017/18 season. City was running poorly with more talents they struggle to get best out from until Pep's second season, all of sudden they are a best-run club in the world.So we have first hand evidence and accounts from people that know better than us that this Walsh person is an awful candidate for a DOF, yet the first reaction of many is to bash woody. Can’t even say I’m surprised.
Don’t get me wrong, I am very much of the opinion that we need a DOF, but I disagree with the common consensus on here that literally anyone besides woody would do a good job of it.Just watch, if we become one of the best team in Europe in the next 3 years. They'll be kissing Woodward's arses. Liverpool fans were pissing off about their DOF and the owners and calling for them to get out especially in the early 2017/18 season. City was running poorly with more talents they struggle to get best out from until Pep's second season, all of sudden they are a best-run club in the world.
We will always blame someones for our failure. When we're successful, we don't have anybody to blame.
It is all deliberate, they (the Glazers) need Ed in control. Ed is their puppet and just does as they say. I am sure they are very happy with him, hence why is still the CEO.We are a third into the transfer window and we are still trying to figure out a set up that will help us with the summer recruitment?
Yeah.. this is going to be fun.
This appears (assuming the story is true) to be one of those rare occasions where Woodward has got something right. Walsh presided over one of the worst transfer stratagies ever conceived, while at Everton - he would have been a disasterous appointment as our DOF and Woodward was right to reject the idea.So we have first hand evidence and accounts from people that know better than us that this Walsh person is an awful candidate for a DOF, yet the first reaction of many is to bash woody. Can’t even say I’m surprised.