Edward Woodward

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I think the transfer is Woodward transferring the contents of our fabled war chest into his bank account in the Bahamas, we wont be seeing him again lads.
 
I_live_cement said:
Can people stop saying this? It's clearly the the logic of a 5 year old.

This place is like a home for mentally retarded people, I'm surprised some of you can use a computer.
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Another interpretation could be that most over 5 yrs old can see the logic in that. I'm sure our potential sellers will fall into that catergory. If any purchases we make cost us more than was bid for Rooney you too might be lucky enough to see it.
 
Edward Woodward​
Executive Vice Chairman and Director​
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Edward Woodward, aged 40, is Executive Vice Chairman and a Director of the Company. He was appointed to our board of directors on April 30, 2012 and is currently the Executive Vice Chairman of Manchester United Limited (UK), having been elected to its board of directors in February 2008. He is also director of Manchester United Merchandising Limited and MUTV and is on the Marketing Committee of the European Clubs Association.​
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On joining the club in 2005 he initially managed the capital structure of the group and advised on the overall financial business plan. In 2007 he assumed responsibility for the commercial and media operations and developed and implemented a new overall commercial strategy for the club. This resulted in a new structured approach to commercialising the brand, including developing the sponsorship strategy, led out of the London office.​
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Mr. Woodward formerly worked as a senior investment banker within J.P. Morgan’s international mergers and acquisitions team between 1999 and 2005. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Woodward worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Accounting and Tax Advisory department between 1993 and 1999. ​
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He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Bristol University in 1993 and qualified for his Chartered Accountancy in 1996.​
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sammsky1 said:
Edward Woodward​
Executive Vice Chairman and Director​
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Edward Woodward, aged 40, is Executive Vice Chairman and a Director of the Company. He was appointed to our board of directors on April 30, 2012 and is currently the Executive Vice Chairman of Manchester United Limited (UK), having been elected to its board of directors in February 2008. He is also director of Manchester United Merchandising Limited and MUTV and is on the Marketing Committee of the European Clubs Association.​
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On joining the club in 2005 he initially managed the capital structure of the group and advised on the overall financial business plan. In 2007 he assumed responsibility for the commercial and media operations and developed and implemented a new overall commercial strategy for the club. This resulted in a new structured approach to commercialising the brand, including developing the sponsorship strategy, led out of the London office.​
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Mr. Woodward formerly worked as a senior investment banker within J.P. Morgan’s international mergers and acquisitions team between 1999 and 2005. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Woodward worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Accounting and Tax Advisory department between 1993 and 1999. ​
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He received a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Bristol University in 1993 and qualified for his Chartered Accountancy in 1996.​
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I don't know much about British education - but according to this:

At the age of 20 (in 1993) he got a Bachelor of science degree in physics - and worked for PWC in the accounting and tax advisory department. At the age of 20 I had barely started my education....what did he do when he was 8 ? Calculus ?
 
lysglimt said:
I don't know much about British education - but according to this:

At the age of 20 (in 1993) he got a Bachelor of science degree in physics - and worked for PWC in the accounting and tax advisory department. At the age of 20 I had barely started my education....what did he do when he was 8 ? Calculus ?
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Most people who don't take gap years, start Uni at 18 and finish their degrees at 20/21 here.
 
Brophs said:
Is Woody home yet, or is he gone all Tom Hanks in The Terminal?

Fair fecks to him if he does leave his seed in Catherine Zeta-Jones, though.
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What if he's actually gone Tom Hanks in Cast Away? That would be more worrying, our transfer business for the summer would be fecked with the CEO off talking to volleyballs on some undiscovered island.
 
lysglimt said:
I don't know much about British education - but according to this:

At the age of 20 (in 1993) he got a Bachelor of science degree in physics - and worked for PWC in the accounting and tax advisory department. At the age of 20 I had barely started my education....what did he do when he was 8 ? Calculus ?
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Relax, it's not a race.
 
Gazza said:
What if he's actually gone Tom Hanks in Cast Away? That would be more worrying, our transfer business for the summer would be fecked with the CEO off talking to volleyballs on some undiscovered island.
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Willlllllssssssooooooooonnnnnnn!!!!

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I_live_cement said:
No, he's an embarrasment.

He should have told the world that we have £10 in the bank so we could sign world class players for peanuts.

You know it makes sense.
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:lol: It's nothing new either, is it? People have been moaning - moaning incoherently, I might add - about our transfer policy for years. Now, it seems, Fergie and Gill were a ruthless, efficient marquee signing machine that never failed to nail its targets in less than ten minutes. People need to relax a wee bit, I think. If we end up with Rooney sold for a pack of crisps and Fellaini's mum as our only signing - then, by all means, go mental. But for now, just take it easy.
 
Woodward regime is a change of direction at United

There has been a greater transparency about Manchester United's targets and motives this summer - but whether that is a good or bad thing is up for debate.
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So Reds, which Manchester United do you prefer? A club where there is a greater openness about potential new players, as seen this week, or the one which zealously guarded informatioWhere David Gill and Sir Alex Ferguson devilishly enjoyed keeping information about new players from journalists (and fans) by conducting business in secret? Where the first things fans knew about a new signing is when a statement appeared on United’s website?​

The announcement could be controlled and delivered on a day to quash bad news, as when Javier Hernandez was unveiled in 2010, the morning after United had been knocked out of Europe by Bayern Munich. United had been watching him for months and few had a clue.

Before joining United, chief scout Jim Lawlor worked at Liverpool University, where one of his students was a former Mexican international, Marco Garces.
Garces returned to Mexico to work for a leading Mexican club, Pachuca. Lawlor asked him to recommend Mexican players who would be good enough for United and Hernandez was put forward in September 2009.

Garces said Hernandez was ‘already excellent’ and had all the attributes to do well in English football. He was from a very good family with the right values – and he already spoke perfect English.
United sent a scout to watch Hernandez in December 2009 and Lawlor visited Mexico for three weeks in February and March 2010 to make an in-depth assessment of the player. Even Chicharito’s agent didn’t know that he was a target for United, who stealthily dealt directly with the president at his club, Chivas.

Hernandez signed in April 2010, with a promise that United would play Chivas in a friendly if they didn’t leak news of the transfer to the media.
Such was the secrecy around the £8m deal, Hernandez’s own grandfather, whom he saw every day, didn’t know that he had signed for United. Asked where he was, Hernandez lied: ‘Shopping in Atlanta’. He was actually signing a contract in Manchester with his father. That was the perfect deal for United as nobody in the media had any idea about it.

There’s no exact science to signing players, nor a set policy.

United don’t just sign players who’ve already made it in a big league. They go for up-and-coming footballers who’ve not long broken into the first team. Chris Smalling had played 13 games for Fulham, Phil Jones 35 matches for Blackburn, Angelo Henriquez a mere 17 games in Chile.

And United always try to develop their own players by signing them at any age, from nine to 18. Danny Welbeck was eight, Tom Cleverley 13 when they signed with United, following a tradition of nurturing youth going back to the Busby Babes in the 1950s and the famous class of ‘92 which included Beckham, Butt, Scholes and the Neville brothers.
United have more scouts in Manchester than any other city, naturally, but players are also brought to United from across Britain.

There have been some changes of personnel, but the transfer policy is unlikely to differ significantly under David Moyes. One of the attractions of the Scot was that he was exacting in his standards at Everton.

But United’s dealing with the media shifted noticeably this week.

There was a greater transparency about the club’s targets and motives. United were happy to let people know that they had bid for Cesc Fabregas, that Chelsea had made an offer for Wayne Rooney.

The club, under new executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, were more open. There were no hidden agendas, no leaks from supposed in-the-know sources about which player has been spotted house hunting in Prestbury and/or which player’s dad was spotted skipping down Market Street wearing a sombrero, clutching a straw donkey and singing ‘Viva Espana’.

It’s ‘We’re Man United, the champions of England and we’re going to sign this or that player’. It’s ‘We’ve got the money to back up our talk’. Real Madrid do it, usually with great effect.
It’s also entertainment – for every person who loathes the summer transfer conjecture, 10 more can’t help themselves.

Transfer stories maybe tiresome and speculative, but if the readers didn’t love the stories, the newspapers wouldn’t print them. But they do – more than any other topics in the summer.
It’s a glimpse into a potentially brighter future with fresh blood, an escape from reality, and the demand is insatiable. Even a tenuous transfer story involving a big club can come out top for sport stories online.

United have a decent squad but fans want a new player or two. Judgements are already being made, but United’s summer transfer activity will be rated at the end of August when the transfer window closes and fans work out their perfect United XIs.

If United have failed to land any of the big-name targets that the club are chasing then the new ‘glasnost’ approach will look clumsy, misguided and a little bit desperate.
But if the club have called it right, few will complain.
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Summary: It might be good, it might not, and either way we on the outside know jack shit.

Roll on the season.
 
Chesterlestreet said:
:lol: It's nothing new either, is it? People have been moaning - moaning incoherently, I might add - about our transfer policy for years. Now, it seems, Fergie and Gill were a ruthless, efficient marquee signing machine that never failed to nail its targets in less than ten minutes. People need to relax a wee bit, I think. If we end up with Rooney sold for a pack of crisps and Fellaini's mum as our only signing - then, by all means, go mental. But for now, just take it easy.
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How is she in a midfield 2, and can she cut it on a cold, windy night away at Stoke?
 
elmo said:
I rather much prefer how we did it in secrecy though.
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I can't imagine everything we do will suddenly be leaked to the press nowadays. Woodward would have learnt a lot from Fergie and Gill and they ran a tight ship. Things that we have leaked this summer will have been deliberately to serve some purpose imo. Lets see how it pans out.
 
It might be a case of the club anticipating the media sharpening their knives now that Bad Old Fergie is gone, so they're gonna keep them sweet at first by giving them more access and projecting a more open image. If Moyes had gone in and tried to "Fergie" the press they'd be on full-on snipe mode.
 
EvilChuck said:
How is she in a midfield 2, and can she cut it on a cold, windy night away at Stoke?
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I was pondering this the other day.

Did the cold, windy night at Stoke thing start on RedCafe or did it start in the national press?
 
Siorac said:
Well, IF he leaves, we'll have to. If he stays, we won't, obviously.
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Why to try to solve a problem that's not there. Rooney's not leaving unless a worthy bid comes in so no need to splash out on an unnecessary player.
 
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