Please do not fall for 'tons of money spent'. Yes we've spent hundreds of millions, but alot of that money has been recycled from player sales (the Lukaku sale pretty much paid for Maguire for example).
United should be spending more given our revenues and at the same time making long term investments in Old Trafford and the training ground. Unfortunately when we're half a billion in debt (thanks to the Glazers) and have had a billion taken from the club (thanks to the Glazers), long term investments are not going to happen. Hence why we are falling behind in terms of infrastructure also.
We've spent more on debt than we have on transfers since the Glazers took over!
All those things are correct but over £500m net spend in six seasons should be enough to build a competitive side. I am not saying things like infrastructure, academy and more money on transfers aren't great but the fact remains that the money that has been wasted by Woodward, Mourinho and Van Gaal should have done more.
Generally the Glazers hold the club back but any club that's run as a business will have budgetary limitations and we are so big that those shouldn't matter to us if we have the right people in place. That has been our Achilles Heel, getting the right people in place - we have Woodward's College mate as our Chief Negotiator ffs.
I think getting rid of the Glazers should be our long term battle objective but in the immediate we can put pressure on Woodward for him to feck off or at least urgently address the underlying issues that are leading to so much waste at the club.
In my opinion the football side is virtually rotten because players like Di Maria, Sanchez, Pogba, Lukaku, Martial, Depay, Mkhitaryan etc shouldn't all flop. Is it the coaching, the culture or the sports science but players are coming in and dropping their levels far too often for it to be just wasting money on flops.