You do your due diligence and find out he's a racist before. He could have simply googled that on the can, not exactly deep investigation stuff. Are they even working with club scouts or consulting with their recruitment personnel? Oh sorry, nevermind.
That says it all then. We are fecked.Hired by Moyes as well.
The backlash had nothing to do with him being a racist.
I mean, if Arnautovic was actually Ten Hag's choice, then we have bigger things to worry about. I have full trust in Ten Hag's management skills, but maybe we should get someone like Overmars for the recruiting bit.
Overmars doing the recruitment so that you don’t buy racists sounds alright, then you remember he got fired for sending pics of his cock around the office.
Well put
Becasuse dividends are based on profits, if the club is spending insane amounts of transfers and and struggling to produce a team that gets in the champions league, both these elements impact the amount of money they can take for themselves.
Does Murtough has a spine to say no?
The someone like Overmars should be Murtough. He's our Football Director. However, he doesn't seem to do any actual directing.
Because external hires are less likely to want to suck on Glazer penis.
Think the development side of the arguement was more of how unstable we are as a club. Because of ten Hag not being proven anywhere but the Eredivisie, that probably wouldn't have helped us if he's a signing the manager and not the transfer team have recommended.
It’s us. He’s probably afraid we’ll do a panic buy like we always do and end up stuck behind an ageing striker like when we signed Cavani/Ronaldo.
I think we just got priced out by Bologna... I can see ETH accepting the fact we shouldn't be spending double figures on a 33 year old.
Utd is very toxic atm no young player wants to be associated with that toxicity
Not exactly. Stability is the name of the game for development. Bundesliga, Leipzig and their regular CL appearance. Then the Red Bull franchise connection. This club just had an ugly time with a former Red Bull director, in Rangnick. With that context, putting myself in his shoe, Leipzig is much safer option for development while is currently not any worse in term of quality gametime.
Agreed we would have dropped him or stuck him out on the wing to accommodate whichever big name striker in their mid to late 30s we sign next a la Zlatan, Cavani and Ronaldo.
I've been thinking this. Just been too scared to say it.
I am sure you can find people in here who would write a 10 paragraph post on how awesome Murtough is. I found one who was particularly insistent on this matter. He is also well loved by Bayern fans in here as well. I guess they never forgave us for what happened in 26 May 1999
I've been thinking this. Just been too scared to say it.
For the first time I'm being forced to consider the possibility that Ed Woodward actually stopped us from being stupider over the past 10 years. Honestly, I don't like it!
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The fact our transfer policy and the people who operate it are now a punch line for a betting company, shows what a shambles we are under Murtough.
Murtough was supposedly Woodward's 'fixer' for most of the last 10 years, which speaks for itself doesn't it? That experience should have immediately put question marks over his fitness to be our Football Director.
Now really concerned about Murtough. He has been here for a while (in lesser role). Even when he got promoted about a year ago or so to Football Director position, it's excuse that WoodWard still run the show. Now he has both time and power and still doesn't look like we have a proper planning for our recruitment. He shouldn't have the excuses of new DoF at new club, requiring time to bed in so he can get to the root of the problem in the club.
The whole inquire SAF, David Gil recently for advices, raised a red flag for me. Hope I am wrong, but the signs don't look very good.
I agree with all of this except the Murtough will be fired point, I'm not sure he will be at least not until after next summer.
Harry Maguire is a meme for just about everybody outside of United but still most fans have him in their starting XI. I wouldn't worry about it.
Christ.
That should not be how it works for a DoF. Yes, you don't force signing on manager, but you should line up the signings and have them ready for final approval by the manager. The DoF should have a vision for how the team look too. It's not just all on manager. Manager in place or not, a competent manager could have his own assessment of the squad, and lay the ground work.
I sometimes get the feeling the two of them n=have never met each other! It's like one of those films with a long list of writers and you leave the cinema wondering if they ever talked to each other about what each of them was writing separately...
