Its not an overreaction.
Its actually very basic. If you want to sell something, you don't publicly undermine what you are trying to sell by telling everyone it isn't good enough and you don't want it. You are then undervaluing it and either no one will want it, or you will have to sell it for less than its worth. That is if you are dealing with an item such as a car. These are employees and himan beings who you need to be motivated and to perform as well as they can for you, and you've just publicly announced to the entire world that you think they're all shite. Even if they are all shite, this is a VERY stupid thing to do. There is roughly 0.0% chance of any positive coming from it because a) it isn't going to motivate anyone of them, and b) you aren't going to be able to sell and replace every single one of them.
This means now, next season we will have a squad largely made up of players who the club has told they don't want and effectively think are rubbish. Ayone new you sign will be integrated into this group who you have decided to effectively alienate. Bravo on that one. Lets see how that turns out.
Also, and this part is just as obvious, if you sell loads of your assets in order to replace them with better assets, one thing you definitely do not do is undervalue the assets you sell...because then, the only thing you are going to be able to replace them with, is less valuable (i.e. more rubbish) assets. I don't see INEOS dipping into their pockets and producing a magical £300-400m so you tell me how that plan is going to work exactly?
It is up there with most of the dumb leaks Woodward used to make to the press and is a public signification to anyone with ambition to be succesful to avoid signing for Man Utd like the plague.
