Maticmaker
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Although I've defended Woodward in the past, failing to land Sancho will be a monumental feck up that will cost us for years to come. He still has time to get it done. No real challenger to signing an elite English RW talent from a smaller selling club. He has a golden opportunity to buy a lot of goodwill with everyone, really.
This is the thing with Woodward, his background in Finance etc. means he cannot get out of the mode of trying to be the 'tough negotiator', he has to take things to the wire. You might say its in his blood!
United is often hailed as the richest club in the world, or certainly in the top three and we have consistently over the years been prepared to pay over the odds for players. It is therefore now ' a given' that we start any negotiations on the back foot once we've declared a formal interest in a player. Surely its not beyond the wit of a man like Woodward to come up with a different playbook for player transfer negotiations.
These days there are so many different elements to transfer negotiations, getting even more complicated now with agents, family members, club sponsorship deals etc. all going 'into the pot'
Going into negotiations with a strategy that seems to be simply designed to be take it down to the wire and then pay up, seems almost a naive approach?