We have plenty of Ex reds like Irwin, Robson, Butt etc and SAF is still around.
I'm sure any sane person who had the best interests of the club would've advised Woodward not to pay the the ridiculous fees that were being asked by Spurs and Leicester for Aldeweireld and Maguire. £75m for Alderweireld and £80m for Maguire if you believe what was reported.
Any sensible person would not look to buy Toby or Perisic. Look at their ages and the transfer fees and how many years can they play? Jose wants players who can play for two or three years at the most.
The club wants players who can come and be at United for at least a few years.
I guess they didn't come up with better options tho' (this has been discussed to death, but once more)....all allegedly
Let me get this theory straight, those ex-reds
- Didn't want to buy the players Jose said he needed
- Couldn't think of any alternative
- Didn't discuss this with Jose
- Couldn't think of any other players that we might have been able to get (wingers, LBs or RBs, different forwards)
- Didn't discuss that with Jose either
- Left the existing team wondering who's really their boss
- Don't actually do any work on this
- Haven't come out and admitted that they were working within the club to undermine the existing manager
I certainly can believe that there are a lot of chattering ex-players behind the scenes who'd like to have power within the club. That really doesn't sound like a solid plan for how to run a club, though, and you can see (if that really happened) how that made a solid mess of this year.