Like giving Ole a new contract last year when he had a year left on his current deal when most of the fanbase were divided after losing the Europa league final?
Ideologically yes. But realistically these soundbites are good to let the fans know that at least they're working and acknowledging the problem.
I mean, it’s very easy for somebody to get frustrated when their boss who’s making all the calls is the one taking ages to do anything. Woodward had ultimate control, so you can’t really hold having worked here against everyone that was beneath him.
Well he kinda is - isn't he ? He is basically ripping up the entire coaching staff - and expects ETH to do the same with the players
Yes. The next 4 weeks before preseason starts will be crucial. We can't sign 3-4 starting players by mid/end July. That would handicap our season. We need to have our incomings done to 90% before preseason.
I always hate the "it's only xxx date" type posters...but seriously fella, it is still May!!
It would also be fecking stupid to do that.
is it though ? I agree with you to an extent however , the likes of pogba and his team throughout his time here was floating the " i would love to play here or there ". Also there are statements from players about how playing for their national team is so much more fun. Yet if our staff float the idea of "'X" needing to pull their socks up or he is heading towards to the exit door we are somehow destroying their confidence and devaluing them as human beings.
But DID Woodward have control? Or did he have to consult myriad board members, people like SAF or others before making decisions. This sort of thing, and the dynamics involved, were very near my courses of study in University, so I feel very safe in stating what has been happening with United is NOT the product of unified decision making or vision, even an incompetent one. It seems more the product of at least 3, maybe 4 different people or groups feeling they have some level of control over the direction of the club competing to see who has the upper hand (usually in terms of internal politics and leverage), and the result is something of a hodgepodge …. Which is what you have ended up with in United’s case.
Exactly. They need to stop using the word “rebuild” when I hear it again next season (from ETH or the club) I’ll know ETH isn’t the one and will be gone without coming close
I agree with you first post. I cba to find it so I'll quote this one. It's a big assumption to say Woodward was blocking all these great decision makers. It takes it a step further to say every decision was made on a binary scale by one person alone and two steps further to say he was making those decisions to the disapproval of his own staff. He even promoted many of them himself. It wasn't just Ole and Woodward making bad decisions. It's almost a stretch to deduce he acted alone. Despite being an egomaniac Woodward never actually hid the fact that he was also taking recommendations from the football staff.
From the Jose veto interview.
I don't know where the belief emanated that the football people at the club were getting overruled and never supported Woodward's actions. His decisions weren't being made in a vacuum. Imo they now have to earn the benefit of the doubt because they were very much a part of the last regime. I'd hope for a start to move away from disastrous timed contract renewals.
and top teams have already signed players
We're not a top team anymore so don't worry about it. We'll have a few signings made by this time next month.
That argument doesn't work.
