I would imagine Glazers and Woodward went to watch how Powell, Schnederlin, Dalot, Telles play, and decided these are the players that we want. They even wrote down AWB's workrate is excellent, his crossing is excellent.
You can blame Sanchez on Woodward, add Pogba & CR, but 90% of our failed recruit, would not have caught the attention of a "business focus" CEO/Chairman. Sanchez failure might have caught a lot of press attention, but at the end of the day, it is the failure on Powell, Schnederlin, Dalot, Telles, AWB, plus the big big ? on Lindelof, Maguire, Pogba, Fred, Bailley, Martial, that is costing us dearly.