I said arguably.
1) Ole scored the goal but to call him the man that won us the tremble is utterly disrespectful to SAF and first 11 that got us to the final.
2) He was doing his job as hired by the Glazers as a banker to pull off the takeover and he succeeded. It might be shitty for us but all he did was the job that he was hired to do and he did it very well.
3) After the Glazers takeover and our club struggled financially Ed was moved to the commercial side and his deals helped put United back at the top 1 to 2 of the financial league and allowed us to go on £150m summer spending sprees. It should be noted his deals and structures have been copied by Real, Bayern and every other top club. Without him significantly raising United’s revenue at best we’d be spending no money, at worse we’d end up in administration. Research our revenue and dept repayment / servicing between 2006/2013 and see for yourself. I really can’t believe how this that were widely accepted and reported several years ago are now forgotten and called “lunacy” simply because G Neville has decided to say Ed’s to blame for everything.. funny how he blames the man hired but not the actual owners.
4) Yes he’s made bad football decisions.. but tell you what. If United had signed the exact players that Liverpool have signed under Klopp... people like yourself would be calling him stingy and saying he’d wasted the little that he’d spent on crap players.
The fans still sing about Ole's exploits because we're a football club. He scored vital goals during all of 98/99. What do they sing about Woodward again?
We're here for the football pal, not getting excited about some suit who was hired to plunge us into debt.
And commercial revenue has stagnated to the point that we're even slipping in that respect. Yes, he monetised United by getting us to agree noodle sponsorships, but there isn't even a big gap between ourselves and other Premier League clubs anymore. He just whored us out more than anyone realised was possible. And now, largely because of his incompetence, that well is running dry.
There's literally nothing more to add. If you value a useless chairman over one of our most feted players, there's no reasoning with or helping you. You should quit watching football and read books about mergers instead.