I was going to read through but this straight away is completely inaccurate.
People have had a go at him countless times. The first of which being right at the start of the very first season where he took over from Gill, when he paid over the odds for Fellaini, and failed to bring in any of the other players we needed.
At the moment we have a situation where he has not signed the profile of player the manager asked for, and then come out and actually told the press that this was through choice rather than the players not being possible to sign. Lets ignore the fact that mouthing to the press about this is a stupid thing to do in ANY situation and just think for a second what the end result of this is...if we had signed the profile of player the manager had asked for, we would more than likely currently be on 6-9 points, instead of 3, as it has been very clear in our last two games that our centre backs are costing us points. So straight away, it is impossible to absolve Woodward of any blame. He has chosen to keep Jose as manager, and then he has chosen to not sign the players Jose has asked for, and as a result we have lost games. You can blame Jose for that too, but it just isn't possible to completely take the blame away from Woodward, as the fact Jose is still here, and hasn't got the centre back he asked for, are both down to Woodward.
He has also allowed half of our squad to run their contracts down to the final year. What is the plan here if we finish 7th for example, and a majority of them decide they don't want to sign a new contract? It's all well and good saying the players aren't all that...but this is what 7-8 players? Plus De Gea. It would be impossible to expect ANY manager to be successful the next season if they immediately are faced with losing a third of the players and having to focus on just getting enough new ones in to have a squad. again, this isn't down to Jose, or LVG, or any individual player or manager. It is Woodward's job.
The fact is, we are on our third manager since Woodward took charge, and Mourinho is in the same position LVG was, and he was in the same position Moyes was, where regardless of whether they are good enough, they are fighting to succeed in spite of Woodward either not signing players they said they needed, or signing players they never asked for. LVG in his first season moaned constantly about the state the club left his squad in after the transfer window. He was left trying to fit three big name strikers into the same team and not having a midfield to play behind them. Is this his fault?
Even if you do ignore all this and come up with a strange scenario where the manager is responsible for how the entire club is run, despite Woodward TELLING you this is not the case through his press briefs, you are still left to address the fact that Woodward has appointed three manager sin a row who you are then left with no choice but to say, were the wrong man for the job. If a manager signs three different players in the same position, each to replace the last, and even after that the player he has isn't good enough, is he not to blame?
It is impossible at this point not to blame Woodward, because whatever spin you put on it, you get to a stage where the problem/buck is clearly no longer stopping at the manager.
Okay so if he paid over the odds for Fellaini, a transfer-deadline day signing that Moyes wanted of course, it makes him a bad director? Just look at the list of players he was able to get for our fecking managers.
The defensive situation is as follows: Mourinho asked for Bailly and Lindelof, yet when both played, he opted back for Smalling and Jones. What does Woodward have to do with this?
Did Bailly/Lindelof partnership get enough time? No it did not, so how can we judge them when they haven't played regularly together?
Now moving forward to the contract situation, let's see the players contract situations:
Player Date of Birth (Age) Nat. End of contract Contract option Market value
David de Gea
Goalkeeper
Nov 7, 1990 (27)
30.06.2019 Option for a further year 70,00 Mill. €
Anthony Martial
Left Winger
Dec 5, 1995 (22)
30.06.2019 Option for a further year 65,00 Mill. €
Juan Mata
Attacking Midfield
Apr 28, 1988 (30)
30.06.2019 - 30,00 Mill. €
Ander Herrera
Central Midfield
Aug 14, 1989 (29)
30.06.2019 - 30,00 Mill. €
Phil Jones
Centre-Back
Feb 21, 1992 (26)
30.06.2019 - 20,00 Mill. €
Chris Smalling
Centre-Back
Nov 22, 1989 (28)
30.06.2019 - 18,00 Mill. €
Luke Shaw
Left-Back
Jul 12, 1995 (23)
30.06.2019 - 15,00 Mill. €
Matteo Darmian
Right-Back
Dec 2, 1989 (28)
30.06.2019 Option for a further year 10,00 Mill. €
Antonio Valencia
Right-Back
Aug 4, 1985 (33)
30.06.2019 Option for a further year 8,00 Mill. €
Ashley Young
Left Midfield
Jul 9, 1985 (33)
30.06.2019 - 7,00 Mill. €
Andreas Pereira
Attacking Midfield
Jan 1, 1996 (22)
30.06.2019 both parties 1 year 6,00 Mill. €
Of the players above, the only ones worth looking at are DDG, Martial, Perreira/Luke Shaw (if this season works for them and I hope it does)
So what is your point? How do you expect us to sell them if there are no buyers, Ash and Valencia in their 30s, declining. Chris and Phil have been here since SAF days and still failed to nail down those CB spots, Mata on the decline for a while.
And even if we are on our third manager, you think it is easy to manage the biggest club in world football? You think it's easy to take the mantle from Sir Alex Ferguson? The media scrutinized SAF when things didn't work for him but did have meltdowns and attack his own players publicly? Did he slate the club?
You are talking as if it's a shame to change managers who cannot take the club forward, no it is not. All the clubs have do it. We deserve to see our team playing well and we all want our team to be fecking playing well.The manager's job is to do that otherwise he can feck right off. If he really believes this squad is not enough then let him leave, let him go elsewhere I am sure all clubs are wanking knowing that Mourinho might be available soon!