I think his remit has always been CL qualification and last year they didn't expect to get it so he's bought himself a little time with that despite doing poorly this year. If he didn't there still wouldn't be any ambiguity.
There are also just not many great options out there.
I feel this idea that “United are a massive club” is the same kind of mentality of Liverpool fans in late 90s when they were doing nothing.
From a football perspective, purely football, we’ve done little more than spurs. Do any big clubs talk about a sporadic FA cup, league cup and Europa league win ? They do on their f**k.
United has been a nothing club for 12 years. But some fans haven’t caught up to the fact and still expect managers to come in and make United great again “cause big transfer spend”…. United have massive exposure because of our fanbase. Also the one credit I will give to Woodward/glazers is that they do market us really well. Talk about dressing up a hooker to look like a lady, they’ve pretty womaned United .
I only recently watched “man in the high castle”. In it , there is a man with “traditional American cultural antiques” but he starts to make fake copies and selling them to stupid rich Japanese that don’t know the difference. This has been uniteds transfer policy for 12 years. Managers have been nothing to do with us being ripped off.
If we had Klopp as manager , do people think we would have gotten salah for 36.5 million ? That’s what we spent on Donny van Der beek. I mean even at that, supposedly Klopp actually wanted Brandt over Salah but the Liverpool transfer board overruled him. Who at United would have told Klopp Salah was a better target ? And then imagine it compounded over 7 years, would Klopp have the same squad even though he’d have a bigger budget ?
This is why I feel our managers aren’t at fault for our transfers. They don’t negotiate fees, don’t negotiate contracts and in well run clubs they don’t just pick who they want; there is a process that’s actually based on a club plan that everybody is working towards.