I don’t think money is the problem. We have pledged over 80 million for FDJ. I just don’t think that the scouting structure is in place or management mature enough to target the right players. No good players will want to join United with the current negativity around the club.
Apparently there are people in the utd infrastructure who are quite annoyed and pissed off with how recruitment it going this summer. They did all their work on the targets, but someone somewhere at the club decided to ignore all that and directly go with recommendations from ETH personally. There was an Athletic podcast which mentioned this last week.
It begs the question, what is the point of a scouting department, them filimg reports and re recommendations from the recruitment team being ignored?
Something isnt right at the club. RR was shocked that Utd werent scouting nkunku at alll last season despite him being hot property in the bundesliga.
What happen to copying liverpools transfer commitee approach where the manager, dof and cheif scout between decide on what targets to go after?
Not just, well i managed anartovic before therefore thats good enough. We need a RB, so why arent we targeting the next cancelo or hakimi or trent? We need a DM, so why arentnwe targeting the next kante? We need a striker, why arent we targeting the next leodowski or benzema?
We have one of the biggest scouting departments in world football, surely that information exists in a database somewhere?!?