Pray for VDS
Ed Woodward has resigned from Manchester United | 2024: Returns to football
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It's idiotic and I won't believe for a second this is the reason we are so hesitant to give him the sack.
It comes down to two reasons. Either this club really believes Ole is the man to turn this around and bring us trophies. God help us if that is the case.
Or they really struggle to find someone else to step in. Which begs the question why we waited until Spus got Conte and why we aren't looking for a pure interim solution until we get things sorted in the summer. Peole are (again) putting their nose up on someone like Rangnick but if he was available I see no reason why we wouldn't try him as an interim solution. Yes he's mostly acted as a DoF the last years but he's an advocate of modern, progressive football that a manager like Ten Haag could work with if we snap him up in the summer. He could do some important ground work here until we find a long term solution and who knows maybe we'd keep him as a DoF.
But no. It seems we are completely out of ideas and hope things will get better by themselves.
The loss of David Gill signalled the start of a indifferent period for United. OK, we won the FA Cup and Europa League and a Charity Shield I’d you count that, but those are slim pickings for a club of United‘s stature. Contracts have been allowed to expire, players have held the club to ransom over wages, we have sanctioned the likes of Sanchez and Falcao draining the club of money for little return. Signed Pogba after the media frenzy that we should sign him. We now need a professional football orientated CEO that does put the owners first. That won’t happen I suspect. I don’t see Edwin as that man just yet. I can’t offer any suggestions other than Simon Jordan or Purslow at Villa.
Imagine being able to be rich enough to hire a whole PR team but still make your reputation worse. That's how pathetic and bad he is with anything to do with football
This absolute snivelling cnut of a man is still managing to wreck the club even after handing in his resignation I see.
Imagine having so much self-importance that you think you need to hang around for 8 months after you resign to hand things over... Because you're so fecking amazing that the club couldn't bare to move on without you instantly.
Nobody in the history of our club has done more damage to the club then this baffoon... No one.
Imagine having so much self-importance that you think you need to hang around for 8 months after you resign to hand things over... Because you're so fecking amazing that the club couldn't bare to move on without you instantly.
Nobody in the history of our club has done more damage to the club then this baffoon... No one.
Will likely go down as one of the worst figures in club history. I know it's harsh to judge based on Woodward, but I suspect his mate, Arnold, will be the exact same if he gets the job.
He's took one of the greatest clubs in football history, appointed shite manager after shite manager, greenlit spending for nearly a billion and has 3 minor trophies to show for it. One of the worst football CEOs in living memory, although I'm sure the Glazer's love him due to the commercial side of the game which has earned them a pretty penny.
Would be a dream appointment but isn’t it another Glazer “yes man” that’s getting the job - Richard Arnold?
Well it’s been mentioned lots but until it happens I still can dream
Whenever Ole does go this cnut needs to head out the door with him.
Did he feck. I don't count saying "I'm leaving (in a year)" as resigning. More like "I'll be spending the next 12 months looking for a new job during my working hours while the place goes to shit."
I don't agree with everything you say but I generally consider you reasonable. I am surprised you think there's even a glimmer of a chance we hire someone who knows football.
We are first and foremost a corporate entity making money. No way a football man will be allowed in at the top.
Surely a successful football team attract better financial returns?
A football man can be in charge of footballing affairs and the money man can be the marketing and financial authority.
I don’t see why the 2 can’t be separated. The football side and the financial side.
A good football team would surely attract more investment and sponsors
but you’re right probably too logical
Can this thread title be changed? Every time I see it I fill up with joy thinking we’ve finally got shot of the fecker. 
Chinless cnut.
A man who sacked a manager 20 minutes after he’d lifted the FA cup is reportedly concerned about the impact sacking a manager who’s helped get us in some relegation form would have on the club.
He’s an absolute clown
He’s an absolute clown
Arnold is expected to replace him as chief executive. Reports seem to suggest that he won't be taking the executive vice-chairman title though.
A man who sacked a manager 20 minutes after he’d lifted the FA cup is reportedly concerned about the impact sacking a manager who’s helped get us in some relegation form would have on the club.
He’s an absolute clown
This. The media should be ALL OVER this specific angle. It’s fecking laughable.
I fully agree with everything here but like a lot of other corporates, decisions are not made based on logic.
The main conclusion from the recent events is that it's a highly political, you scratch my back, I'll scratch your back work place.
Having said all that, the silver lining from the recent shambles is that it might force change at a time when we're actually making changes. There was talk about Arnold not being in charge of football matters, so there might be a small window of opportunity to get things right once and for all.
Yup but at least then he had actual option in hand ready to take the job. This time sacking Ole will force him to start actually start doing something in order to hire replacement and this is when problems begin.A man who sacked a manager 20 minutes after he’d lifted the FA cup is reportedly concerned about the impact sacking a manager who’s helped get us in some relegation form would have on the club.
He’s an absolute clown
Yeah it was said in the Athletic article that he's expected to leave most of the footballing matters to the football side. Murtough and Fletcher haven't even got going yet as directors because Woodward is still front and centre of everything. That's likely changing once Arnold steps in.
Don’t think it will be news to Ed that many will blame him for appointing and persevering with an unqualified manager. Appointing the most anti United manager in Mou as well.
But the chief executive is the one running the whole of the football club on a daily basis, isn't he?
So if it's Arnold, there's no reason why the impending transition should paralyse or confuse decision-making, as Neville seems to be claiming. These two are already working together, after all, with Arnold being Woodward's right-hand man.
Or are you suggesting there will be another figure brought in who then will be Arnold's boss somehow?
Also, the club appointed a DoF and technical director this year, so all those thinking a Rangnick appointment would somehow be feasible or realistic are wrong. Because even if the club decides to change the manager and his coaching team, they're surely not going to change all other people in leading roles with him?
Really wish we could force all these cnuts out of the club - Woodward, Arnold and all their merry band of Glazer accounting stooges that don't have a modicum of footballing knowledge amongst them.
If he kicks this Ole can down the road then that's the cherry on a shit filled cake that he's served up here. 90% of United supporters want this, at least make one good decision before you go.
I feel like we need to turn the heat up on this fecker before he'll act.
I feel like we need to turn the heat up on this fecker before he'll act.
how is it fair enough?
Putting his reputation before the clubs downfall, its comepletely fitting of his characterGrab the flares lads. There’s unfinished business at the pricks gaff
Gary Neville is full of shit. Woodward's replacement is his carbon copy, so it's not really a big event and besides both Ed and Richard Arnold just do what Glazers want. Nobody cares how Ed feels leaving, that is such childish take.
I saw this thread pop up again and my heart slipped a beat, then I remembered he announced this ages ago
CEO of the club and director of football (VDS role) totally different.
He really is the nugget of shit that just won't flush.
It's a bit of a mess tbh. I get the impression that the Glazers really don't want Woodward to go. Arnold is apparently going to leave most of the footballing matters to the football side. Murtough and Fletcher will gain more power once Woodward leaves.
Van der Sar IS the CEO of Ajax. Their DoF is Marc Overmars
You also have David Gill hovering in the background and apparently becoming more present around the club.
It's a decision heavily impacting a future he's no longer involved in. If anything the incoming sporting CEO should be making it together with Woodward.how is it fair enough?
Woodward is absolutely desperate for Ole to succeed, he knows it's his only remaining chance at redeeming his disastrous tenure at the club.
Yeah but CEO of AJAX is a million miles from CEO of United.
Totally different roles regardless of same letters.
That's the point, VDS could never be CEO of United. DOF yes.
I know it's been a while since he announced resignation, but good fecking riddance.
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the way we sacked Moyes and LVG after the dross we're being put through with Ole.
I'm actually starting to feel sorry for the way we sacked Moyes and LVG after the dross we're being put through with Ole.
How is it different? Obviously United moves more money around than Ajax, so it arguably is a bigger job, but how is it "totally different"? Keep in mind he started his career in Ajax' board as their director of marketing, not in any position related to the actual football team.