VDS should be earmarked as Woodward's successor but a DOF is more important now. I guess football executives around Europe look at United and see the potential being wasted through an ineffective transfer strategy.
I have mixed feelings on this. Manchester United aren't Ajax. We're a beast of a club with an unparalleled budget coming from sponsors etc and with a huge loan that need to be carefully handled. VDS is a former player turned CEO whose managing a club that is pretty much a selling club in a one horse race league.
Haaland was just an example not exactly with regard on his failed signing went. I was saying, sometimes a player needs assurances about his role in the team and Woodward/Judge isnt best placed to offer a convincing assurance but a DoF, being a football person, has the authority to convince a player whilst ED and Judge are more inclined to major on the financial aspects.
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Mourinho, Van Gaal and Ole have shown us the flaws in this system. Sometimes a manager's beliefs and preferences don't align with the club and when you defer to the manager it can turn out to be an expensive mistake.
Let me give you an example of what a DOF is like and why is he needed.
ok thanks for explaining.......
If United had a top DOF then agents won't need to call Evra to put them through the club because Judge can't be bothered to pick up the phone. Players like Meunier will find themselves a person who understand football and who know the player inside out rather then a banker who keeps asking silly questions like the player's age or how long he's been playing at PSG. Not to forget that Ole would probably have Cavani, Diallo and Pellistri for preseason rather then having to wait for them till the end of the transfer window/January. That's particularly good for Diallo as we basically fecked 4 months of football development for him as he was left in limbo at Atalanta rather then playing week in week out with Parma. These are the things a DOF would do.
True and people think that we are just advocating for any DOF, that DOF has to be the 'best in class' like what Gary Neville said. Its pointless to pick up another former player and install them.as DOF because he will be terrible especially for an inaugural appointment.
I think Edwin is CEO at Ajax and Overmars is DOF, hence Ed’s likel lack of support for bringing them on board. However, the Glazers may see things differently.
I think we have two problems at United - we have a terrible CEO and an inadequate structure that doesn't give football people a place at the high table. A good DOF will mitigate the damage Woodward can do but eventually it is he who has to go.
With the Glazers you never truly know but to be honest an appointment like this benefits them the most because it they who pick up the tab when poor signings are made. Imagine being convinced to push out the boat for a £90m defender then being asked to form out for another defender just 18 months later because your £90m CB needs a faster babysitter to cover for his weaknesses.
i agree with what you say, i only go off what we have seen so far and leave with a feeling all they do is extract money and hoodwink a fanbase every year when needed. if they were that concerned about wastage they would have fixed Woodward/Judge years ago. Last time it was Rio/Fletcher which in itself is laughable, serving only to spare them any fan uproar for another coupe of years
I had a hunch he was having a bad working relationship with Woodward here. Otherwise why leaving a big club like us so soon?
i think he left because the zenit dof was a step up from being a scout here but ya there were murmurs that he wasn’t given enough power to change anything. I’m also not sure how zenit have been doing but his work at Juve was top notch.
I think that in spite of the money they take out they still have spent massive amounts of money and authorized some eye watering wage deals. I think it's a case of an egomaniacal CEO thinking he can do it all but making costly blunders all over the place.
It's not us fans that will be the gullible ones but rather the Glazer's.
Yep. They are the ones forking 80m on the likes of Maguire and paying silly money to keep Jones at the club till the end of times.
People don't recognize whose interests a DOF serves, for example when Mkhitaryan turned into a pile of sh*t and we had to give him away so as to get Sanchez, who also flopped, it is the Glazers' club and effectively them that picked up the tab for Woodward and Jose's mistakes.
Agreed.
I don’t think anyone here has the first clue about what a DoF does. All we know is we definitely need one.
Exactly. We've paid out more than double for Maguire and AWB and both players don't fit into the high tempo game Ole spoke about implementing for different reasons. Ole also should've known that Maguire and AWB would cost a huge amount from fellow PL clubs. Spending 15m rising to 18m for Dan James who wasn't exactly pulling up any trees in the Championship was money that could've been spent better if we broadened our horizons IMO.
I agree that there’s a number of interpretations of the role and its responsibility.
Thanks for that, I must admit I'm confused by the whole DOF thing and I dont fully understand it, the above does help to a point, but it still doesnt sit right with me.
He does know what he's doing. He's putting profit and marketing before football. A DoF might change that, which is why it won't happen in substance.
Doing something for 7 years doesnt mean you know what you’re doing
Possibly me being old-fashioned, but that seems to be the managers job? Or should a DOF tell the manager/coach the style of play? So if its Liverpool and they brought another DOF in, they'd potentially stop with the "high-press" because a DOF would prefer a different style?
