Ed Woodward 2019 - Until all Arctic ice melts edition

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Ed can f*ck off. Look at the shambolic state of the squad we took on tour.

We’ve spent 70m this summer, and bought a winger with half a good season in the championship, and a right back who’s played less than 50 games in the league and we expect to progress.

Farce.
But, but, Woody can only negotiate 1 deal at a time as it takes him too much energy or brain damage, perhaps that's why he has so many holidays at important times. The man is close to being a fraud in such an important decision making position.
 

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Woodward is an accountant by trade! He became an investment banker and was advising the Glazers when the takeover happened. He got recruited in 2007 by Malcolm Glazer to grow the commercial revenue for the club and was very successful at doing so.
This graph shows why he is not fired or won’t be fired any time soon.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/383966/manchester-united-commercial-revenue-by-segment/

Since 2012, our commercial revenue has grown 300% despite our failing on the pitch. However this will not sustain forever if we don’t deliver on the pitch.
All of us can see the loss of SAF, it’s even crazier to loose David Gill at the same time. One loss that probably not mentioned enough is of Malcolm Glazers himself. He’s the mastermind of his empire and he left us with a bunch of trust fund babies, it’s obvious Woodward wood have the most power at the club after Malcolm died.
 

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If Bruno fernandes ends up at Liverpool and ndombele at Tottenham it would be too much work for Woodward it would be a huge failing. That's a midfield rebuild right there for about 125m.

I don't think there's ever been a transfer window with so much talent seemingly open to move. Woodward has no excuse whatsoever to not make us considerably stronger this summer
Ndombele gone for 63 million, Fernandes will probably cost 50million so it is much less than what you mentioned. Anyway it would be too much work for Woodward to get these deals done. It takes 5 weeks or more for each deal. I mean how long is Fernandes deal going on and we missed out on Ndombele with last minute offer which should have been done long ago.
 

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How is the share price or value of the club now compared with when he took over? That will be his number one "key performance indicator" as CEO, everything else is very much secondary
 

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How is the share price or value of the club now compared with when he took over? That will be his number one "key performance indicator" as CEO, everything else is very much secondary
Don't follow this but read recently that value had dropped by nearly 1 billion dollars in past year.
 

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Our club was not turned into a PLC until 10 years after Martin Edwards left as chairman, 7 years after Glazers took over. Not really sure what you're on about.
Not to get involved here in the argument. But the club was a PLC long before the Glazers, and was in a much stronger financial position when it was a PLC. Began on the stock exchange in London in 91
 

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Our club was not turned into a PLC until 10 years after Martin Edwards left as chairman, 7 years after Glazers took over. Not really sure what you're on about.
You're right. My mistake. I should have written that Edwards engineered (or was, at any rate, the public face of) the flotation in 1991 which was purely profit-driven.
 

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Another fantastic summer window from our ‘director of football’.
 

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I really doubt that we even have big funds for transfers in our rebuilding to be one of the best team in the world.

For the past 2 season, we were never really linked or attempted to sign any world class players. Instead, we have been signing players like Fred, Dalot, Matic, Lindelof, Lukaku and etc.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if that's us done in the window now. Unless a "can't say no" player becomes available - De Ligt, etc - then I think we would have concluded any other deals by now.
 

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Ndombele gone for 63 million, Fernandes will probably cost 50million so it is much less than what you mentioned. Anyway it would be too much work for Woodward to get these deals done. It takes 5 weeks or more for each deal. I mean how long is Fernandes deal going on and we missed out on Ndombele with last minute offer which should have been done long ago.
Did we? :confused:
 

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Solskjaer has said there will be more incoming transfers.
He also said he wanted it all done before we left for the tour, and that players who were a part of the Everton defeat last season wouldn't stick around. I wouldn't believe it.
 

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Woodward has done a shit job once again and its so fecking disappointing.
This summer it is even more frustrating because of all the problems we have,nothing has been resolved and now the tour begins.
Pogba replacements should have been bought already,the club knew he wanted to leave and there are plenty of quality players about.
Its still time to buy and sell but i dont have high hopes,2 more signings and our best player leaving and that will be that i guess.
 

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Another great summer from Woodward. He's an abject failure at this football thing.
 

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He also said he wanted it all done before we left for the tour, and that players who were a part of the Everton defeat last season wouldn't stick around. I wouldn't believe it.
After the abject finish to the season, I really expected business to be swift and telling of the clubs desire. Ole even made a very clear statement about wanting these players by the tour. Yet here we are with two players, only one that we expect to start.
 

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Every season I think some people make a bit too much of the tour departure as some sort of critical deadline. On the other hand, I am feeling a bit concerned.

It’s understandable that we may not be able to shift Darmian or Rojo for various reasons.

It’s possible the club was blind-sided by Lukaku and/or Pogba...and certainly they need to know if De Gea is going to extend.

Maybe we did need to sort out all these contract extensions to get an idea of our wage structure before we start bringing in additional signings. If we’re looking into actually writing people off the books and paying off contracts, for example.

Understandable, but starting to get worrying at this point.
 

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Every season I think some people make a bit too much of the tour departure as some sort of critical deadline. On the other hand, I am feeling a bit concerned.

It’s understandable that we may not be able to shift Darmian or Rojo for various reasons.

It’s possible the club was blind-sided by Lukaku and/or Pogba...and certainly they need to know if De Gea is going to extend.

Maybe we did need to sort out all these contract extensions to get an idea of our wage structure before we start bringing in additional signings. If we’re looking into actually writing people off the books and paying off contracts, for example.

Understandable, but starting to get worrying at this point.
Lukaku let the world know he wanted to go to Italy days before our CL game with Barca. And being in Europa would never happen with Pogba again 3 years here with his agent
 

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funny thing is that Woodward is intending to remain as our DOF even though he has fcuked up every transfer window. Is he looking forward to fcuking up the club totally?
He cares about the Glazers finances and he's nailing that.

We are a business not a football club. LVG nailed it.
 

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Even if we managed to sign 5 more players which we really need as Pogba, DDG, Lukaku, Herrera are leaving. The first few games will be a shamble again and we will lose ground to City and Liverpool from day 1. New players need time to gel and that's why we need to get the majority signings done before pre season tour.

Instead of a major rebuild this year I think we will be out of the title race by early Sep.
 

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A month left to go until the season starts and we have not done enough.

Woodward is a joke. The Glazers are a joke.

We're likely going to endure another wasted season unless Ole is a genius.
 

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If Woodward was a Disney' character, who would he be?
My vote is the kid Cid from Toy Story. An absolutely incompetent villain, act tough, achieve nothing. They even have the same look.

That's Disneyland joke for ya Woody.
 

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So we need to replace Lukaku, Herrera, and Pogba on top of signing a new DM and CB?

How can you run a club so poorly as to leave us in such a position. This guy is the real virus at this club.
 

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What's more likely, that Ed is indeed this incompetent, despite landing the CEO position and that the Glazers, despite being ruthless billionaires, have suddenly gone soft and will tolerate Ed "failing" year in, year out OR instead that the powers above him have installed limits for the club (in terms of replacing players/money spent) and have made his job not to oversee a dramatic improvement of our squad but instead to "manage" the manager as the club saves every penny possible?
 

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What's more likely, that Ed is indeed this incompetent, despite landing the CEO position and that the Glazers, despite being ruthless billionaires, have suddenly gone soft and will tolerate Ed "failing" year in, year out OR instead that the powers above him have installed limits for the club (in terms of replacing players/money spent) and have made his job not to oversee a dramatic improvement of our squad but instead to "manage" the manager as the club saves every penny possible?
We've had big transfers and a high wage bill for a while now, so in terms of your question the former is probably more likely.
 

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What's more likely, that Ed is indeed this incompetent, despite landing the CEO position and that the Glazers, despite being ruthless billionaires, have suddenly gone soft and will tolerate Ed "failing" year in, year out OR instead that the powers above him have installed limits for the club (in terms of replacing players/money spent) and have made his job not to oversee a dramatic improvement of our squad but instead to "manage" the manager as the club saves every penny possible?
The Sanchez deal, the Pogba transfer oh fecking limited are we.