They are shrewd business men and their wallet interests them more than our club that is for sure. Yet that doesn't mean they run the club on tight budgets, I personally have never felt like the money wasn't available, it is more a question on what we want to spend it on and obviously wrong choices have been made on that in the last couple of years. I think if United wants to they can close any deal financially speaking, I don't think there is ever a real shortage of money like you have with alot of Italian teams for example, it is just a matter of us not being big spenders and if anything that has to do with the managers we employ rather than the Glazers.
SAF has always been a manager that rather buys players he can form himself than the finished article, he'll only ever spend alot on the finished article if he himself is very impressed with the player and desperatley wants to work with him and he'll never spends amounts on individual players that he thinks are silly. He was a man ruled by principles more than anything, he never felt the pressure of I don't have a good enough squad and I need to add quality no matter the cost, he has often gone for the wrong players and he has often blown off good potential deals over a couple of million because he found the agent fees and money for a young inexperienced player silly. Moyes on the other didn't want to spend before he had done a full scale examination of the team and had an idea about what he needed, he took way too much time on doing that examination and was very undecisive about what players to bring in during last summer. Another thing he did was because he worked under such tight budget contraints at Everton, he wanted to make sure that whatever deal he closed for United was one that was good financially, he didn't want to spend silly amounts or even normal amounts for that matter and that cost us alot of targets and in the end resultated in panic buying Fellaini because else he wouldn't have gotten anybody at all. I'am quite certain Moyes was about to spend big and all the talks about having a big summer were under the assumption that Moyes would still be in charge and we would excute his plans, but ofcourse non of that ever came to pass as he was fired before the start of the summer. LVG also isn't a manager that spends alot, I really think he wasn't involved in transfers at all before the end of the world cup and he just signed off on Shaw and Herrera who were on Moyes list and were presented to him by Woodward. After the world cup he didn't want to deals because he first wanted to examine the squad and give every player a fair chance to show himself for LVG. He is also a manager that is reluctant to do big deals, he almost never did big deals at previous club and like SAF he prefers to work with youth and sign young players he can mold himself, in fact I even think he is more fanatic about that than SAF. So for all we know, the money might be there and Woodward just waiting on LVG permission to do this or that deal and I think he has said to Woodward he really wants a left footed centreback, but Vermaelen didn't happen because Arsenal didn't want to sell to us and Barcelona were even more into him than us. Rojo is clearly going on but the fute between Sporting and Doyen is making it very difficult and obviously Blind has been the cards but more as a backup plan. For the rest of the deals I just think it isn't Woodward who is failing or the Glazers not coughing up the money, it is LVG who just doesn't want us to spend big on this or that player just now.
If we had signed a manager like Mourinho for example who is always looking at new proven players to strenghten his team, I think we'd have spend fortunes already in the transfermarket. Obviously we can't go all out every year like Real does, as that would be unwise, but I don't believe for a second we are blocked by financial constrains from the Glazers. It is been the managers we have had more than anything.
