No, I blame Ole for the team not turning up on the pitch. And not performing to the standards its easily capable of with or without more signings.
Moyes had money available to spend, obviously, because we were desperately trying to sign Fabregas and Bale, it's HIS fault we didn't look at anyone else, not Woodward's. Woodward failed to deliver on targets, but you don't need to be an experienced top level manager to know that signing players like Fabregas and Bale, or Sancho today, is not easy and never guaranteed.
All our failed managers had hundreds of millions available to them and they have all spent badly. Woodward and Judge are abysmal at their jobs but you have to be wildly deluded to think they should also have the blame for not picking the right transfer targets and not looking at fall back options, that's not in their remit.
We ended the last transfer window with a midfielder Ole clearly wasn't particularly interested in, and a striker who's beyond past-it. We can split hairs over who is more responsible but there is zero chance Ole is blameless in that.
If you think I am deluded let me bring a couple of points up.
Why did Jose win the league at Chelsea? He got Fabregas and Matic, players he wanted
Why is Jose doing well at Spurs? He got the players he wanted.
At United, managers get sold the dream that they can sign certain players, then when the window comes, they are too expensive.
Well, that is the boards fault, why promise big name when you can't deliver? Jose has been told by Levy, we cant afford £90m we need to look for £20/30m players and thats what they did. So don't tell me its the managers fault because the manager doesn't scout players.
The club has a whole division, Ed Woodward was speaking up his new stat based transfer policy, so how is that the manager?
Do you think Klopp scouts his own player? He scouted Tsimiskas and Jota?
Do you think Pep scouts his own players?
No, the club have people doing that, the manager tells the board they want a player in xyz positions, with xyz attributes, and would maybe say a player like xyz.
Why after 8 years and 4 managers, are we still discussing recruitment? the same managers who you are blaming have had success buying players elsewhere.
Christ! That’s equivalent to 4 months pay for De Gea