That he has kept his job after the last 6-7 seasons tells a lot about the ambitions of our owners. As long as the club makes money, nothing matters. The last team of our stature and size that crumbled like we have was AC Milan. Just before their steady decline from the big boys of football they had an ageing squad full of former champions but no transfer funds to renew with younger players of the same quality, reminds me of us a lot doesn't it?
People defending Woodward and the Glazers always fall back on the transfer money spent but somehow forget that when the Glazers took over in 2005 just before our squad matured to CL winners, they put us in heavy debt and had to use most of the clubs financial power to manage the debt, "There's no value in the market" was just a line SAF used instead of saying how things were, that he wasn't given enough funds to replace the outgoing quality from the club, like Ronaldo or replacing ageing players with similar quality. SAF had no problems breaking records in transfers before the Glazers, Rio, Rooney, Veron and the list goes on. With the Glazers that changed, the debt they put us in made that impossible in the first decade of their take-over. That's how our rot started.
The Glazers (Woodward), did not open their pockets until after our catastrophic season with Moyes, too late, too many of our players had already passed the hill and the ones that had, were replaced by much inferior players.
It's that period of 7-8 years with minimal investment in the club that has put us here and the people in charge simply don't have the knowledge to take us out of the hole they created.
