I'd agree in general but I think Nev is too clued up to ignore. I suppose he doesn't have the European reach some of these big DOF's have but seeing as we're starting with an inexperienced manager we might as well nurture Neville in a directors role too.
Reason why I wouldn't like Neville is because he seems to let his emotions get the best of him. He didn't like Pogba having blue hair just because of the Manchester Derby. This, despite Pogba having that for 2 weeks already. It's pretty much irrelevant to anything on the pitch. Anyone being objective would never bring up something as insignificant as that. Plus, why would Neville inspire confidence in sacking a manager should the manager not be doing well? He has a clear bias.
Having a fullback who can defend would be a good start. If nothing else, it would stop Young being on and taking freekicks - worth £50m for that alone
Neville said he wouldn't take the job because doesn't believe he is anywhere near qualified for it. He argues that United should hire the best DoF they can get their hands on, someone with lots of experience in the role and proven track record of success.
Totally agree mate and in terms of ex players he would be my preferred/ only choice .He loves the club, has fantastic football knowledge,has done a great job with Salford and is a successful business man .
Meunier is a clear upgrade on Ashley Young and experienced so gives Dalot time to develope without any pressure. Why spend £50m on a young RB when we have one already, who was regarded as the best talent coming from their home country when we signed them? We also have young FBs coming through our academy and having 2 young RBs already would block their path to the first team.
I mean others are right, there's certainly better candidates out there - but considering we've never had a DoF and the state we're in, I think Neville would be an excellent starting point that we could actually acquire.
Meunier has spent 2 years scratching his arse in the French league. AWB is already one for the best defensive RB in the league and better than Dalot. Yes we can develop him but we can also develop a better player in AWB. Highly rated RB by who exactly? Dalot is still very inexperienced and I actually think his development is better served at RW. More areas need developing I agree. But to me the fullbacks are the most important position. Along with your forwards in modern day football. If you want to play a certain style.
My worry is that AWB is very average with the ball. Combine it with Shaw and our fullbacks are very much useless going forward. I think we should opt for someone with more attacking ability for RB, Meunier would be more sensible buy IMO.
Brilliant, good for him, he's still an upgrade on Young. Yes he might be better than Dalot but Dalot has the higher potential ceiling imo, sort out him defensive qualities and we have a world class RB there. Highly rated by all our Portugese friends on the Caf, who all said at the time he's a bargain at £19m. It's telling that Porto weren't fussed about selling Pereira to Leicester as they had Dalot who could come in and had better potential also, he also won the u17s Euro championship with Portugal in 2016.
So why did they sell Dalot? They obviously wasn’t to fussed about the replacement either.
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Yeah only real question I have is his attacking qualities.. he doesn’t look tricky enough even though apparently he was a winger. But there is a lot more to improve on him that Dalot in my honest opinion. But like we seem to always do. We can waste our time and find out.
Yes I agree. I haven’t seen or heard a lot of Fletcher but he does seem reasonably dispassionate and objective.
He had a £19m release clause, they were trying to get him to sign a new contract with a higher release clause but we got there in time.
Fair enough.
Hmm possibly, lets see. I really want the club to change/alter its process so hopefully this is the beginning of that.
I don't know what Neville is saying. I don't agree with a lot what he's saying anything. He consistently blames Pogba on the pitch whilst the likes of Young, Smalling and Jones never get any criticism from him, I don't get it.
Just out of interest like but who do you think should have replaced David Gill ?
As did him retiring
That's why I don't take Neville or Rio seriously. They will claim Pogba is not playing well but Rashy's "world class potential" and Young/Jones "work hard".
For a minute I thought there must be another Darren Fletcher, but nope it's the one that's been a player the last 20 years. Safe to assume that in those 20 years which he's been focused on his ability as a player that he's built a network throughout Europe and has polished his scouting and negotiating tactics to the point of playing a key role in this massive rebuild. Surely, right?
Yep, we had to wait for him to retire first which must have been a tough call for the lad.So it took us a year to hire frigging Darren Fletcher?....
Does he want the job to finish Moyes’ quest to turn us into Everton?
Safe to assume that during his playing years he has become a well liked player by the fans, and someone the fans would find it difficult to critizise?
So he's so great in the DOF job (ie a job he has zero experience in btw) that we had to wait for him to retire? Couldn't we get someone else instead who could start the job earlier?
Think of the combined experience of Ole, Carrick and now maybe Fletcher in their roles (good blokes though get behind em!). And then consider Woodward's total lack of understanding of the sport.
I can understand the clubs reluctant to hire a DOF/Technical Director because we've never had one, never needed one, we probably don't need one now, but the club are obviously open to the idea and what's to say Darren hasn't made a pitch for the job and impressed with his ideas on what the job should entail.
I've no idea to be honest. Someone who had experience and a good track record.
Not really sure that's true. If we were going to pick an ex-player because he's an ex player, we were hardly going to put Darren Fletcher at the top of the list are we? He still had to interview.
Can't be arsed to Google, but don't remember any other names being put forward at the time(though there obviously were), and we did get an extra year out of David Gill before he took up his position with UEFA.
If we don't believe we need anyone in that role then we shouldn't sign anyone. What's the point of throwing some dude there whose go no idea of what the job entails?
Two Titans of the sport: Manchester United and Central Coast Mariners. It's natural for the two clubs to be in competition for the best talent.
Maybe it's a sign, that Darren Oswald Fletcher was born for the job....
A money man replaced a money man. Problem was we also lost Fergie at the same time, and replaced him terribly with Moyes, which would have left any new CEO in a terrible position.
