He seems weak. He shouldn't have sanctioned the 60m on Martinez when there were other more important needs.
In fact, this was the summer that he should've just gone and addressed the weakest areas of the squad without Ten Hag's input. As the guy who hired him, he should know exactly the profile of players we need to be signing for the football we want to play under Ten Hag.
100% and it baffles me that Murtough sat through a series of interviews with Ten Hag, hired Ten Hag based on the ideas he put across and seemingly has no idea what profile of player Ten Hag needs to realise the vision of football they (I assume) discussed during those interviews.
Makes you wonder what the hell they spoke about?
When Ten Hag left Ajax early and came to Manchester in May, what were they discussing? The colour of paint in Ten Hag's office at Carrington?
I just don't understand how you can sit down with someone, repeatedly, and come out of it seemingly unaware of what tools they need to do the job you're giving to them.
However, even if you don't understand. Surely you can sit down with your recruitment staff, of which United have legion, and say: 'I plan to hire Ten Hag. Based on what you know of the systems he's played over the past few years at Ajax, can you put together a list of possible recruits in every area? That way when he comes in we can say "we've built these player profiles based on Gravenberch or De Jong. What do you think?"'
Honestly, I'm at a loss to explain what Murtough does. Maybe he should sit down with a journalist and explain it. I've seen other Football Director's do sit downs where they explain, at length, how they carry out their jobs. Just to compare and contrast, it'd be interesting to get the same from Murtough.