You keep saying that, but HOW is it different in a way that prevents VDS from succeeding? I see the point regarding the organisation, but I understood that bringing VDS in should bring United closer to the Ajax way, so actually changing the organisation at least partially in a way like he knows it.
You say that but i think he knows how damaging it would be to keep him and fail every metric set at the start of the season.
You wouldn't look silly if you actually looked up VDS’s role before posting
It’s not different it’s just a different scale
Moyes and LVG produced worse football from better foundations. The best football we've played since SAF has been under Ole, although it's still been far short of our old standards.
Don't get me wrong, they deserved to be sacked as well.
This is erroneous and logically inconsistent, to be fair. van der Sar has a master’s degree in Sports Brand Management, joined Ajax's board room as a Commercial Director and progressed to the Chief Executive position (replacing Dolf Collee), not someone who is/was directly involved in the day-to-day footballing operations/policies (that has primarily been the domain of Marc Overmars).
His remit for the past decade has been quite removed from a prospective Director of Football who is hands on with the sporting sector — what you're essentially suggesting is for someone like Soriano to do the job of Begiristain or Mintzlaff to do the job of Rangnick or Watzke to do the job of Zorc (which sounds rather convoluted). The principal difference between the Chief Executive of Ajax and the Chief Executive of United is magnitude, not the ‟role” as such — and regarding that, while Ajax is a smaller club than United in terms of financial imprint — it is still one of the true pillars of continental football and is associated with a fair bit of pressure, so he has received pretty good on-the-job training and could feasibly adjust to the demands of the Chief Executive position at a bigger club.
He gave Phil Jones a new contract. He's Oprah. You get a contract, you get a contract, everybody gets a contract.
The CEO is responsible for the overall performance of a company (making money). It does not really change his job where he has to send that money to. Ajax can reinvest everything they earn, United have to pay some dividends to the Glazers - so what? Does change nothing about the job of a CEO in general.
Just get the entire trio - Overmars, VDS, Ten Hag, all of 'em. I fail to see why VDS would do a worse job than Woodie.
Very different circumstances, Gill had the fans respect, Woodward is one of the most disliked people in United History no way they are bringing him on the pitch.
This, could it be that the Glazers master plan is to stick with Ole, McKenna, Carrick and Phelan Murtough etc because they want to get these guys in at the end of the season?…..hahahaha, sorry don’t answer that, it sounds ridiculous.
He’ll get more than a wet Willy if they did that.
At least when he's gone we're replacing him with his understudy and best mate, should be a marked difference in their approaches.
I think it would be hard to top what Woodward has done in terms of expanding the commercial side of the club, so in that respect VDS could very easily do a worse job and that may impact our transfer budget.
Not again with this nonsense. Woodie has absolutely done the bare minimum on the commercial side. From commercially the richest club in the world, we're down to 4th or 5th position now. You can put a donkey in the CEO position and the club would rake in commercials all over. That's not down to the "genius" of Woodward, it's more down to the fact that the club is absolutely massive way before Glazers even inherited it. Perez is someone who you can say has done wonders on the commercial side for Madrid, we haven't had nothing - not in the commercial side, nor in the football side. I remember as a kid - Man United were everywhere. Beckham was an absolute icon. Probably the most famous person in the world or at least in the top 5. United as a club was like the pinnacle of football. What do we have now? Nothing. We're an absolute joke everywhere, considered as such by everyone.
Because he just have an extension to the guy and now he'd be firing him. It would show that he has absolutely no clue what hes doing. So, he's trying to ride it out and hoping desperately he doesn't have to fire him. But I think we've gone past that stage now. The fans are properly pissed and players like Ronaldo are strong enough to asm for him to be fired.
No he wasn't, it was always 2022.He was supposed to be gone in the summer but he's still here. Dignity.
VDS’ degree is in marketing, and he was Ajax’s Marketing Director prior to moving up to CEO.
).I disagree, yes United was massive he took over, but year on year he has expanded the portfolio of commercial clients despite the lack of success on the pitch. It would have been very easy for commercial revenue to drop with the lack of success, it hasn't taken the impact it could off. Everyone has taken the mick out of United for constantly announcing random things like noodle partners every other week, but that strategy of going crazy with the sponsorship deals and trying to find every penny you can in that area is something I think we as a club has done better than any club in the world in the last decade. Personally, I think you have to give a huge chunk of that down to Woodward.
