Beside Ronaldo also curious about Pogba. What I have more curiosity is if he will have power regarding football transfers in the future I doubt agents like Mendes or Raiola will have the type of influence they used to have. Only speculation of course.
I suspect with a new CEO, Arnold, their respective influences will diminish. Influence has to be worked on and developed over a period of time. But with a new guy, u start all over again. Then you add that with RR coming from a background/history of scouting and developing his own players.
RR sounds to me like he will be a solid reporting line to Arnold and a dotted-line reporting to Murtough/Fletcher. He could be like a Director of Culture/Philosophy or the Brand Director of United where the type of play has to match the brand perception of United. An over-arching role that encompasses both on-field (from 1st team to academy players) to off-field activities like training coaches to that philosophy. Like an Ajax of England.
I think its quite a corporate, logical organisational, transformative approach that Woodward/Arnold will be undertaking. There big question is whether he has a strong mandate to do this -- needs to be given from top-down. He will be stepping on a lot of toes whilst undergoing this transformation of a proper succession structure. He will need to weed out who the lifers are, those using United as a stepping stone and the incompentents.
Difficult political minefields everywhere. Most fans tend to look at things from a short term perspective and especially as a line item. But organisation structures and managing them are a 3D chess game with every pawn, rook affecting other pieces. Plus its a moving train.
Hopefully with RR we will set up a structure that allows the right hand and the left hand working insync.