It was Moyes for god sake, there are countless interview in the years since where Moyes himself has stated that Kroos had agreed to sign with us but then joined Real. Cesc was very publicly chased and stated he had no desire to join United at all.
I don't get this nonsense about "Galactico" signings at all. I mean do any of Blind, Herrera, Shaw, Bailly, Rojo, Martial, Matic, Lindelof, Lukaku etc etc fall into that category?
A galactico is a ready made world class signing who is arguably best in his position and highly sought after.
The players who fall into a "Galactico" bracket are whom?
- Pogba - Jose was bulling to sign him all summer long and demanded him.
- Zlatan - Again, Jose had a hard on to sign him and Zlatan also was eager to play for us and spoke fondly of Jose and their time at Inter.
- ADM - Who was arguably the best wide attacking player in all of Europe and was the best player for Real in the CL win a few months prior to signing, so why wouldn't we want him?
- Sanchez - A player Jose seemed to want to push Martial out the door.
- Falcao - Practically a freebie, worth the risk but it didn't work out due to his injuries and slow recovery from them.
Our fan base is currently rolling out incredible double standards in that...
If Woodward doesn't sign players, he's over ruling the manager
If Woodward is signing players, he's only after Galacticos...apparently.
It can't work both ways! The fact is a lot of money has been spent and lack of footballing structure is on the managers as its their job to roll that side of things out, as that is the current structure in place at the club.
Woodward has clearly brought in a lot of talented individuals over the last 6 years and its the managers failing to get the to work in a team that's the issue and that isn't a chief execs job, but that doesn't seem to matter to our fan base at all.
If folks want to blame him on something, blame him on the out dated structure still at the club..although there are murmurs of a TD coming in to assist with rebuilding, I'll believe it when I see it.
Reality is with regards transfer dealings its a bit of give and take, Ferguson never got every single player his heart desired. Edwards routinely said no to him and he had to find other targets elsewhere. I mean he missed out on Batistuta and signed Yorke, by the end of that season we won a treble.
Our current fan base though are hyperbolic and revising history and looking for people to blame on things that don't fall under their job remit.
