I guess nobody needs a twitter-message to know how "relaxed" Woodward always is. He proofed this for years. Its interessting, you have two clubs, one is nearly always the first with their buisness and transfers fninshed, having solved everything before its gets busy. The other is nearly always the last of all clubs, preparing bids and all this. Now they have to meet each other. I guess it was for a reason that Dortmund pronounced a deadline day. A professionall DoF at United would have known the circumstances (you need to have in mind to deal with other clubs). With Woodward you need to bump him into with his nose.
Before I elaborate on the bolded parts I’d just like to kindly point out that all your subjective and assumptive statements might need a fact check hence the need for elaboration..
1) Not sure what evidence you have to suggest Woodward has always been relaxed..when in fact he’s been there with a checkbook proactively spending close to a £1bn since SAF left. We spent backing each manager spontaneously and only seemed to be relaxed or (perhaps cautious?) when we weren’t sure if we should back our managers any further and sometimes rightfully so.
2)The one that is nearly always first with their business is usually buying up and coming talent at peanuts£ or buying has-beens/mediocre talent so the negotiations are very easy. All the same while the one that’s always last with their business is trying to buy the best in the market, players like the one you nurture for us while your fans are inclined to accept mediocrity year over year (mediocrity because in your league there’s no point coming 2nd when the 1st club hasn’t changed for almost a decade so everyone below isn’t champion level). Sure you get into the CL but all it gets you is more money and no trophies. The point is that your argument is again factually baseless because your club has not been able to back their strategy of getting business done early in correlation to winning trophies/cups. What have you gained by being prompt in the transfer market?
3) Sure our structure does lack a DoF but that’s because our structure has a very strong infrastructure and maybe we know how to survive without a DoF (at-least in the short term if not the long term?) To blatantly state that the lack of a DoF is affecting our transfer policy is again factually baseless. There is a whole further elaborate argument to be made in defence of being okay without a DoF recently but I don’t want to stray away too far from the topic of this thread (Sancho).
If you decide to respond back, perhaps you can convince me otherwise, with some factual data or evidence to back your response with?
To conclude, yes now both our clubs have to meet each other (again) in an upcoming transaction (Sancho), so I am actually eager to see the sums that will be agreed, how the deal is designed in terms of the breakup of the payment fee, and if this deadline that you’re talking about (again presumptuous) played a role in speeding up the transfer.