I agree with him but his main argument is based on something that I have been saying for years now which goes totally against what he and many others people said in the last years with their "the club is not backing the manager" narrative. The issue isn't a lack of investment, it's that when you back a manager that has no clue about how to manage a football club, you end up wasting an incredible amount of money, that's why most clubs have a structure that is independent to the head coach who is "just" there to coach players on the training pitch and on match days. The shareholders should fire Woodward because he wasted their money and fans should want him to be sacked because he is useless but our managers are also responsible, they have been the main driving force behind our purchase, contract extensions and our wage bill incredible increase, Woodward is just the idiot that backed them and now we are kind of screwed because we absolutely need to get rid of a good 100m in wages before starting to splash big again.
I, like the others on here, mostly agree with you as well. Obviously the issue isn't spending, we're constantly in the top when it comes to spending, the issue is where it's spent as you say. I struggle to blame managers for recruiting, as ideally this isn't even their job. Their job should be to come in, oversee and improve what's at the club. Regardless of who's in the hotseat the club should have a plan, an identity and a style of play and it's becoming very apparent the club have none of those things in place, and that is on the management team above the manager. The problem we are currently in is because Woodward and other seniors in the management team have no idea what they are doing and have blindly backed whoever is in the dugout without any vision or plan for how to proceed after a manager moves on which has left us in a situation where we've had 3 managers with vastly different styles and requirements of the playing staff. If you look at other teams, like Liverpool and City they have a plan, a system in place to recruit certain players to fit their way of playing, while we're seemingly waving around in the dark just trying to grab a hold of whoever is willing to play for the club, regardless of their strength and/or weaknesses.
I might be biased towards Ole, being Norwegian myself, but regardless of who's the manager, it's time to look at those above and start asking questions as to what they are doing to allow our managers to thrive, in my opinion.