The board isn't going anywhere, people need to accept that and move the feck on. They are untouchable. They are fecking clueless, yes, but great managers can overcompensate for a lot of negatives. We need to focus on what can actually change, rather than pointlessly hoping the Glazers and Woodward will feck off.
For example, the board have been quite lax on their management of the squad and tactics. They've mostly left it down to the managers. It's their fault for hiring the wrong managers, but not their fault the managers pursued the wrong players or didn't know how to fully utilise the players they wanted.
If we were to had given Pep or Klopp that kind of money, I think we would have been much better off. Heck, even Simeone would have built a much stronger squad than the one we have with backing.
When Sir Alex took over, we were a typical 80s football club that had a structure which was common for a football club of the day. The manager was at the top of the pyramid in terms of football. He was responsible for everything football related from tactics, the youth academy, right to identifying players we should sign and he was also expected to use his influence to persuade those players to join us. As time went by football had transformed from a sport to a money machine of epic proportion. The typical manager role became far too big to handle and new roles was created such as DOF, technical director etc, ie people who could focus on one aspect of the game (ex transfers) 24/7. In fact, even Sir Alex, who was there from the beginning was starting to struggle in terms of transfers with us losing out on players like Hazard and Moura.
Things degenerated once Sir Alex retired. Unlike Sir Alex who remembered a time when the manager did everything by himself and could make due with the system we currently have, the new generation of managers have been reliant on the board taking sound football decisions for most of their lives. Concepts like identifying new players, dealing with agents, persuading them to join etc were new to them. Also such lack of knowledge lead to them suggesting players from a very small pool of players they would know about. Since Sir Alex retired we've seen a tendency were managers brought players from leagues they still had some influence in or players they had previously worked with. Moyes (Mata and Fellaini), LVG (Blind, Depay, Bastian, Valdes etc), Mou (Matic, Pogba, our interest in Perisic and Willian etc) and Ole (players from the EPL). It also impacted our ability in terms of dealing with a high staff turnover. That lead to us handling contracts to deadwood simply because we simply couldn't handle the work generated by us sign 5-6 new players per summer. FFS Ole's rebuilt this summer ended with us signing just 3 players, 1 of which from a selling club in the Championship.
In terms of individual people, our board is good in what they are specialised in ie making money. You can't really label an accountant as incompetent because he failed to impress Gordon Ramsey at Master chef can you? What we need to do is to restructure the board so roles are given to people with the right skills/experience. We have financial people tasked in taking football decisions with the manager being given far more tasks then he can chew. Its like asking a surgeon to also cover the Anaesthetist's job with some help from the hospital's CEO. That doesn't really cut it.
In my opinion, United had grown far too big to operate as 1 entity. We need to divide the football side from the financial side with both roles working independent with some high level supervision from a chairman (the owner). Id say that Woodward should remain CEO on the financial side of things. Meanwhile a football CEO should be hired (Marotta? VDS?), alongside a DOF (Campos? Ragnick?) and possibly a head of recruitment (Mitchell?). Once these are settled we can have a look at the manager.