We were shopping in Aldi. We are now shopping in Waitrose, with dad's credit card.
He has done good work and is respected. Think all DOF's can be hit and miss. For all the good signings, they usually manage some bad ones in there as well. Big thing he isn't a clown.
The nature of the business makes that impossible to say. What's important is that he is respected by the owners and has the right type of experience.
Yes be incredibly impatient in the restructure. That’s the spirit.
We were patient with Woodward. Look where that spirit took us.
Oh, I must have forgot Woodward was a proven DoF that probably just needed “patience” to back up his excellent CV and standing in the game.
The entire p of an appointment like Ashworth, is to ensure consistency of club strategy and direction behind the scenes, regardless of the current manager, coaches or players.
Woodward was a mate of the big cheese who was allowed carte blanche to destroy us, with impunity, on the basis of who he knew.
Good. Let's hope he is a success at the role.
It wouldn't as much tell Ashworth we'd better see some consistent on-field results with his appointments, or he too will face the chop.
He’s not wrong. If we can’t get the recruitment right this summer then what’s the point in him being here to collect a fat salary and sign players that Madrid are trying to get off the books?
I’m already getting tired of his name. Sack Ashy, sell Rashy.
No, Newcastle posters on here said there was no way that would happen.
Woodward was the CEO, and had zero experience in football.
Again, the point is both men will be given senior authority to improve our fortunes.
Yeah let’s make the incoming DoF solely accountable for short-term results and performances. He’ll have to dust off that magic wand of his.
Your points are all over the place man, sorry. You're equating things that are entirely different for some reason.
You won’t know if Ashworth is successful until 24 months at the earliest. His role is to improve our scouting department, fitness department, recruitment department, and coaching staff.
Difficult to answer that but for me, he’s the best that we could have got. He’s the one I always wanted
You don’t hire and fire DoF’s like coaches, they are hired to layout a roadmap for the clubs style and vision. It’s up to the coach to make it happen
I’ll be surprised if choosing the manager will solely be on Ashworth. Watch the video on his early Brighton role talking about Hughton and Potter, it was the board and owner at the time that wanted the change, it was the owner who thought Potters vision matched the vision he seen for the club. I’d imagine the footballing board will have a massive say on Man Utd next manager, so not sure how you’d lay that solely on the door of the Technical Director.
Yeah, let him hire his mates and blame everyone around him when it goes wrong.
Let's make sure they're working processes, and not the same repeated failures of the outgoing executive class.
I'm not. Well, I clearly am, but I'm not.
If he's marginally involved, he's involved.
Not sure we've settled on anyone yet.
If we hire Mitchell and haven't won the Champions League by October, Ratcliffe deserves to be shot.
What on earth is Ashworth going to do in 2-3 months? (leading up to the summer, can’t expect him to scout and buy players during the whole summer, surely? Especially when there’s no structure in place.)
I would hope Ashworth already has an extensive list of targets who he feels would improve United and some plans of structure he wants to implement, otherwise what's the point? If we want someone to just sit on their arse and twiddle their thumbs all summer while they wait for scout reports we might as well just stick with what we have.
We'll see the benefits of Ineos' takeover in fifty years...
Yup. People need to understand that this is not a quick fix and that it will likely be a painful and lengthy process to get back on top.
That's not good enough, we should be champions by the end of August otherwise he should be sacked.
This, whilst recruitment is our major flaw we also have issues in terms of fitness, progression of players and mentality. I expect Ashworth, Brailsford and others to see to it that the players we have become fitter, more robust and that we see clear progression in terms of improvement as currently our players don't really improve as much we would desire.
I’m convinced you’re a troll.
