Oles fecked us up for a very long time with his first transfer window. Our fanbase just can't get over something as simple as - he's better than X so he's a good signing irrespsive of how much we spend on him.
We've gambles our teams forseeable future away on AWB and Maguire. The amount of money we spent on them was obscene for the quality of player we got. Despite the amount of money we spunked in the defensive half of the pitch, we still need to spend a feck load more on another CB to hide Maguire's glaring weaknesses. And that might still not be enough. The club got hoodwinked by Ole into thinking they were signing a VVD but they were instead getting the Joe Gomez/Matip half of the partnership (for a WR fee).
When we finally do spunk the £100m on this much coveted RW, we'll realise how much AWB hampers the players in front of him so we'll be back in the market for a RB - except for we'll need to replace Pogba, sign a striker, DM and a CB around the same time.
Is it all Ole's fault though.
Let's rewind to season 2013-2014. An experienced CEO and the best manager the club had ever had ended up being replaced with Woodward and Moyes. Woodward had no idea of how to be a CEO of a club while Moyes had never managed a top club before. Moyes was allowed to stop any signings planned (ex Thiago) and to fire Sir Alex's men. That's a level of power not even prime Mourinho at Inter was allowed to do. We replaced the guys with his men including Jon Mourtough.
Moyes was fired few months later and he took most of his men with him. We went for LVG, a man who got fired at most of the biggest clubs in the world. LVG was allowed to bring whoever he wanted with little to no oversight whatsoever. At that point pressure was building against Woodward who then delegated transfer negotiation to Mat Judge ie someone whose got like zero knowledge about football. Evra would later on label Judge as incompetent and lazy. LVG had his contract renewed and then he was fired after winning the FA cup. Mou came in.
Mou had a similar record in terms of transfer signings. The club was now building a reputation of paying over the odds for players both in terms of fees and salaries. Mou was allowed to bring his own men but things starting to change towards the end of his tenure. In fact he was saddled with Mckenna and Carrick two people who had like zero experience in their new jobs. United's performance nosedived, Mou lost the dressing room and was sacked. Once again we first renewed the manager contract only to then sack him. Anyway Ole came in as a transitional manager and inherited Carrick and Mckenna whose only experience in their job was a disastrous term with Mou.
During that time some wise guy decided to give Jones a long term contract. God only knows why. If I remember well Rojo's contract was also renewed. Ole brought Phelan and a group of very inexperienced coaching staff with him. Ole did well and was given the job on a permanent basis. Talks of a DOF and technical director started to pop up at this point as scouts lamented how Mou shacked them.
Well our army of scouts were unleashed at that point and they went for......Maguire and AWB. These were very safe options, players who would never be world class but who wouldn't embarrass themselves at United. We basically paid 130m on two players who won't make the manager or the scouts look silly. The only gamble we took was James who was brought on Giggs advice. The guy had pace but little else. Meanwhile a proven EPL striker was sold off. The guy went at Inter who identified the reason why he was so unfit (dietary problems) and is now scoring piles of goals in the Serie A.
United were playing shit at this point and we desperately needed a top midfielder. We signed Bruno and he basically bailed not only the club but his manager as well.
Talks of a DOF and a technical director became frequent and it was evident last summer that a change in how we operate was imminent. The transfer strategy last summer were completely different to the year before. Caution went out of the window as the club signed VDB (Value signing), Telles (value signing), Cavani (value signing) and 2 kids. It seems that spending 100m on Sancho was stupid (which is) but spending around 50m on two kids with near zero experience at top level is not. Go figures.
This endless race for this top DOF and technical director came to an end few weeks ago and the club hired......Jon Mortough and Fletcher. The former was Moyes man and has been involved at the club for the past 7 'glorious' years. Fletcher on the other hand has around 20 minutes coaching experience in him.
So we've got a CEO who had never been a CEO of a top club before signing for us. We've got a DOF whose never been a DOF before getting the job. We've got a technical director who had never been a technical director (or anything else apart from a decent but not WC player) before. We've got Matt Judge whose prior of joining us had never been involved in football before. We've got a manager from Molde whose previous experience in the EPL was humiliating. Ole's first team coaches are two people whose experience in the job is pretty limited as well. His entire coaching staff bar Phelan is pretty inexperienced as well. Then of course there's a parody of bad signings, ridiculous contract extensions (we seem set to extend Bailly's contract as well btw), a crazy swap deal and silly salaries given.
There seem to be a pattern here ie a club whose got an aversion in hiring the best in the job, opting instead in hiring the random guy