I just remembered as well that his rise to that football director coincided with Nicky Butt getting booted out, so there’s probably a reason why people like Neville and even Ferguson potentially hate him on top of all the existing stuff.
I did but you said “maybe if they bring us a title in the next 2 years”
I don't know that Murtough is hated but he's served the longest during the past decade of mediocrity and nobody seems to be able to say what his strengths are other than that he's popular. He's a survivor alright. A recent Athletic article convinced me that he had to go.
Maybe he smelled the chicken from the restaurant?
Yeah. If memory serves correct they tried to jump on some of the good feeling that was going around. Think it was also the occasion when a video, likely out of context but very funny, showed DDG ignoring one of the Glazers.
He also had a run in with one Nicky Butt whom Gary is close with so he might not be the most impartial person in the world on Johnny Murtough
...or a Jane Austen novel..?. Or maybe her work is too high brow for them.
wearing his best green sweater. those ladies stood no chance.
You’ve missed out on the classic.
So someone else spotted what that old geezer was cooking.
Maybe cause its true? Name me one DoF whose job is to give the thumbs up to the manager whenever the latters asks for a player
Didn't Valdano found himself in that situation at Real Madrid with Mourinho? Though it didn't end well.
I don't know about that. What I do know is that you can't have a DOF whose job is to be the manager's cheerleader. That defeats the reason of having a dof in the first place
He’s got his gold tie on too until the club is sold….. to him presumably!
Nah I think your wrong they'll be gone within 3-5 years.
Reminds me a lot of Walter White before going full Heisenberg with that outfit
This is the reason Utd have ended up in this situation. A lack of leadership and organised structure. Everything at the club is misaligned. Which inevitably leads to chaos when it falls flat on its face. Everyone here knows Joel had to sign off on transfers, for example. This lead to haphazard decisions and failed transfers because of a lack of defined leadership. It's why we got rinsed in fees and salaries. It's exactly why we are fecked in FFP. Radcliffe is going to create a defined structure, with actual accountability, finally! Now there will be nowhere to hide at the club. Bluffers will be sacked, and replaced with people that know what they are doing for a change. And the CAF will now know exactly who they need to sling their vitriol at. Happy days for me.
Gotta reclaim his money back somehow
Its the 2024's version, a visual representation of the dreaded vote of confidence.
The Ronaldo story is probably true. Ole had talked about the style of play he was building towards before Ronaldo was slapped onto him. A 2007 United of Interchangeable/positionless frontline.
It was a fine old British tradition that the hangman would always shake hands with the condemned man.
This meeting has given me hope he will also answer questions regarding managing debt and expansion plans when they get verification. Would say route to majority ownership too but probably has to be careful on that one.
Optics is the key one. As has been said elsewhere, the United hierarchy (Woodward and Judge, and then Murtough and Arnold) LOVE to see mega deals hyped up and try to make the club look like Real Madrid picking galacticos off a tree.
So, this is presumably what the initial investment from Ratcliffe is for?
Exactly. There are (rare) occasions when the owners should step in. Take the Greenwood situation as an example. That can of worms should have never been dealt by Arnold. Ultimately we're talking whether to keep or sign off a 30m-70m asset owned by a company that is struggling financially. Sure Arnold was the CEO but he was still an employee and therefore answerable to the shareholders. That's something the Glazers should have dealt with. Yet as usual they left the dirty work for others to tackle.
We did overpay for some players in the last 10 years, but you are exaggerating things. For a lot of those signings you listed, the fee was reasonable based on their age, CV, and footballing talent. Whether they were a good fit into our teams is another question. Our wage bill has probably been a way bigger problem than the transfer fees. We only really got fleeced with Antony.
"The feeling in the industry" is a sentence I never thought I'd see.
SP is decent but jeez they can't stay on topic. No one cares about their opinion on how to cook roast potatoes or how joe Smith look like jesus. They tune in to listen about football. It's a shame because they could blow everyone out of the water yesterday with Laurie Whitwell but chose to spend 90% of the time on banter
Our administration lost me when they said that they can only work on 4 transfers per summer + that they monitor clicks and use that data as proof of how popular the club is. You can run a club like that
i tend to skip though all their stuff for the very small periods of the show where actual content breaks through the crap. The episode about the club shitshow and parts of the Laurie one were really good. But I agree, way too much useless banter/humor. Also a reason why I can't stand the "hard man howson" shtick but can find some of his comments, especially related to his contacts/rio, interesting.
Yeah, I hear ya, half the content is fecking “in jokes” I stopped listening to their podcasts ages ago especially the brew with Howson, I’m sure he knows his stuff but that fella reckons his shit don’t stink.
This is all fabricated nonsense from SP sorry to say.
