There is no plan and no logic. Just a scattergun approach hoping something sticks at the end of the window. Don't believe any later spin how these were long term targets all along.
I totally get that, but that was a time when it was still widely thought it was just a matter of time before we got back. None of them were fully aware of just how badly run we are behind the scenes. Then LVG was totally disrespected, Mourinho had the plug pulled after achieving top 4, now Ole is having the same thing happen to him too.
Which names were we linked to? Upamecano was the only one that had somewhat credible links, except he was never available as Leipzig didn't want to sell and he had recently signed a new contract. Aside from that, we were never really linked to a CB the entire window. In all the briefings, it was always about Sancho, VDB, or Grealish.
He’s looking at Pochettino if results don’t improve.
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Certainly, how do you mess up a one horse race when for over 2 months all you had to do was pay the known price
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100% the source was Neil Ashton or a familiar looking guy in a false moustache/glasses combo named Wed Oodward
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All the more reason why he should step away from footballing activity.
Say what you will, but Man Utd's reputation in the transfer market is in the dust. We are a worldwide joke.
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so embarrassing, what's worse is our officials know they're green on the job but refuse to get help by employing actual football people. Do they not feel embarrassed by all the reports from other clubs ridiculing how they operate?
Love the socks on Grealish. What does the notice on the door say?So Paddy Power opened a pop up shop in Manchester city centre named Woodwards...
A decent man who oversees a leveraged takeover of a club that is fully self-sufficient and loved by millions. Yes, a decent man.
Sacked Rio in the changing rooms while still in his football kit
So Paddy Power opened a pop up shop in Manchester city centre named Woodwards...
I would quite happily blow both of them in front of my entire family if it got chinless chucky to feck off and never return.
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The conversation about Ole's future has been present since last season. This one is particularly not true, beside I believe most fans know there's no correlation between wanting Woodward out and wanting a managerial change.
How many write ups did you see this weekend about the performance of our Board during the transfer window?
We lost 6 at home before the end of market. Of course this will be a better talk for the media than failing to sign Sancho, a deal that has been dead before the deadline day by weeks anyway.
VDB, Telles and Cavani are very good signings and additions to the squad and the team. Getting players late is a common problem that happened for us in every window post Fergie so it's not something new, but at the end we got very good players. Failing to land a 120m attacker is hardly "not backing the manager". Painting this window is a disaster as imo trying to build excuses early for the manager for any failure this season. Woodward is terrible but other ex managers had worse markets. Moyes one was a disaster. Mourinho's last one was a disaster. This one isn't.
By the skin of it's teeth, and you have to wonder what's happened behind the scenes to get there. I agree with the quality of the signings, I actually think they're all good. It's just the manner in which it was done. Very poorly handled, and has added to the general sense of choas and ineptitude that we thought and hoped was on it's way to the past.
It's well known we're terrible negotiators and most of our deals drag a lot till we manage to decrease the price fee, this happened in most markets post SAf and not just this one, but at the end we got good deals for the players so it's not really a disaster or a mess imo. This is a little bit exaggeration. I hate Woodward and want him out, but Cavani and Telles make the market decent for me, and unlike many others, I have given up on signing Sancho by half of September or something.
Not sure I agree with you on this one. There have been several story lines that look very like briefings to me: 'Ed really wanted to sign Sancho but was overruled by Joel'; 'Ed would be prepared to put sentiment aside and sack Ole'; 'United in touch with Pochettino', etc., etc. These are either entirely made up by the journalists who wrote them (which I doubt) or they are briefings which almost certainly come from the Woodward PR machine. I doubt that Neil Ashton, brought in by Ed for this purpose, is sitting around doing nothing.
These are coming from Mirror, Daily Star and Express. Shite resources at the end of the day. When Ed briefs, he briefs to all English journalism and all of them report the same thing at the same time. This isn't the case here.
Even if this were true, and I'm not sure it is, what's to stop Ed, or one of his spokespeople, from slipping a story to a specific journalist? If it's a media outlet that's not usually connected with him so much the better. In the end, of course, it's a matter of conjecture, we can't prove it either way.
If Woodward is choosing a mouthpiece, he won't choose a one from a shitty source that no one believes like Mirror or Daily Star. Doesn't make sense, eh ? He usually chooses Stones or Ducker in that regard.
Not sure about that.
Yes, there's a lot of truth in what you say. I posted a few years back that only 3 managers (Ernest Mangnall was the other one) out of 21, have won the league for us. Therefore, we failed to win the league under the other 18. To me, that illustrates perfectly, why we need to improve our structure and not be dependent on the brilliance of an exceptional manager. A club of our size and standing shouldn't be so dependent on the manager.
