Agreed. Also until another transfer window comes up, theres not a lot for him to do or not to do, so no talking points transfer wise. All he needs to do is give De Gea what he wants before its too late.
Man Utd set to appoint Director of Football (when hell freezes over)
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Yes I agree Manchester doesnt have the same ring to it as playing in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Turin etc, but City seem to be able to attract top talent and keep them. Silva, Aguerro Toure (until this season and thats down to age) etc all top talent that hasnt moved on. They dont seem to have to pay top dollar to get players in either, or have massive salaries. Add to that the likes of Jesus Sane De Bruyne who will all become world class or as near as dammit and we are doing something fundementally wrong
Maguire is a good player, harsh to say he isn't worth it off of one performance. I would have gone for Alderweireld personally but Maguire would have been decent especially since Rojo and Jones can't seem to stay fit to save their lives.
We could have saved money on his wages if he'd have gone out on loan. We could have gone to Lindelof or Bailly there in an emergency to start the season.
Exactly what difference would saving some money have made to the start of our season?
I'm no fan of Woodward and it appears more could be done in the transfer market.
Loaning out Darmian was a good strategic decision in my view. Clearly not good enough for our ambitions, but a good defender back in his 'natural habitat' of Seria A. Rumours are that several Italian clubs wanted him, but aren't willing to take him permanently. A loan deal is only a short-term saving in his wages, while his value drops to a pittance.
If we held out for a permanent deal, then that's good in my view. Makes a statement that we are a club not to be taken advantage of.
Are you sure ? City offered Aguero and Yaya double what the highest earner was on at United at the time.
More pressure on chinless 
Not a chance we'll make top 4.
Well done Edward you half-witted clown.
Not a chance we'll make top 4.
Well done Edward you half-witted clown.
Why does this get bumped every time we don't win!
It's gonna get bumped a lot this season!
It's gonna get bumped a lot this season!
Sorry, just read this
There's no chance we're releasing our best defender on a free!
Because it's relevant as every bad result means we won't get in the top 4 which will surely signal the end for chinless.
Consider it a silver lining to every bad result.
We won't win the title and I'm personally not that arsed about CL football as we won't win it anyway. But the club care about the £££.
I'd take 5th and Chinless out over finishing 4th and him staying 100%.
How dare he force Pogba, Lukaku, Sanchez, Bailly, Lingard and Mkhitaryan on him! Billions wasted by Woodward, that's what we see on the pitch. And why does every team we play against look more cohesive with more of a footballing plan than ours? Why after 2 seasons we see not a single shred of evidence that this team is coached with a clear idea on how to play? Rubbish!
Get Woodward replaced and extend Mou's contract by 5 years! He doesn't control Lukaka's feet so it's fine his (actually woodward's hehehe) buys keep missing and it's fine our defence look like oafs (two players that WOODWARD, WOODY WOOD PECKER WOODWARD BOUGHT!!!).
Get Woodward replaced and extend Mou's contract by 5 years! He doesn't control Lukaka's feet so it's fine his (actually woodward's hehehe) buys keep missing and it's fine our defence look like oafs (two players that WOODWARD, WOODY WOOD PECKER WOODWARD BOUGHT!!!).
The talk about appointing a director has dried up.
I'm pretty sure it was just a play from Ed to convince everyone he'll work to save things.
Expect him to bump it now to the media till the results become good again and so on.
I'm pretty sure it was just a play from Ed to convince everyone he'll work to save things.
Expect him to bump it now to the media till the results become good again and so on.
We could get rid of them both. I'm hoping we try a female coach. Something? Anything? Why not?
Yep.
It's sad to say this as a fan but we need bad results consistently in order to fashion a change.
I'm not going to lie I'm pleased we only drew today, we don't want to go on too much of a good run.
No white text?
Because our manager wanted Willian and Aderwereild but Woodward vetoed it.
I'm sure he'll appoint a DoF soon, right.
Because Woodward didn't get the targets we needed in the transfer window. Knock on effect, we are now losing more games.
The signing of Lukaku seems like Woodward's biggest mistake today. Should have vetoed that 2 years ago.
Feck me.
Feck me.
Damn you Woodward, that new center half that Jose wanted would totally have improved our non entity of an attack and the non existent coaching they seem to receive.
A team with this much talent shouldn't be crying about not spending 150m after dropping points to Wolves. It's embarrassing
When Wolves looks like a better footballing side than our lot, how is he responsible.
How would Alderweireld or Maguire have helped today?
How would Alderweireld or Maguire have helped today?
The weird thing is that if Ed gave Jose what he wanted and we played like this he'd have every eight to terminate his contract. He's given Jose the biggest out ever by blocking ALL his requests.
The teams mentality has dropped because it knows we have a shit player like Lindelof at the back. The players have no confidence in him at all.
The team also know they're nowhere near Liverpool, Chelsea and City player-wise and that reflects in their attitude.
I doubt Perisic or Willian and a CB alone will erase this malaise. I am sure Perisic will come in scoring 3 goals in 3 games and then start to become as ineffective as Sanchez in our current system. Without proper coaching no attacker can produce.
But Wolves are only playing better football (with an inferior squad) because their manager has got them playing "together" like that. So of course it's got to be down to the manager!
Sounds like hogwsh to me.
That's just silly. I'm not defending Lindelof, but to blame him for our attackers constantly looking fecking clueless is highly questionable.
Precisely. We constantly look like strangers .
You didn't understand what I'm saying???
I never said that Jose would have us top of the league if he got all his wish list.
I said that he can't be sacked because he didn't get them.
He can if he doesn't get top 4. His signings only were meant for a title challenge.
This squad can get Top 4, and Jose never claimed he wouldn't finish 4th without signings. Only said a title challenge would be difficult.
I was looking for the white type
EDIT: And he will just say that he told the exactly board what was needed to get this team top four and it was refused!
I don't think Jose is the right person btw!
I was looking for the white type
I am not sure what's funny? Clearly, Jose wanted further additions to help us go from 2nd to 1st. He didn't get that.
With Spurs not strengthening and Arsenal in a transition, it isn't difficult to get Top 4 with this squad. You can't sack Jose if he doesn't win the title or challenge, but you can sack if he can't even get 4th.
What was funny is that you posted an answer without a reply … then you edited it. Then edited it again after that.
He’s been much better recently. Probably knows he has to be to earn a new contract!
Yeah because a good manager can win without new players. Look at Guardiola before he broke the premiership spending record buying new players for last season. They looked great didn't they... /end sarcasm
It's a combination of factors and Woodward / The Glazers are part of the problem. To deny it would be ridiculous.
Haven't we scored about 8 goals in the last 4 games?
Or more like 9 goals in 6 PL games average 1.5 GOALS per games back to Jose first season and LVG. You don't win PL unless you score more than 75 goals, yes I know Leicester and Jose did but there was No Peps City then!
You still have to ask the question does he know how to create an attacking team that can put teams to the sword and score 85 goals plus in the PL. The facts state that he can not so why persevere when Zidane is available now. Jose has now managed in over 120 games for United and I've been to about 80 of them, still his United team have never scored more than 4 goals. He just doesn't fit our style or our history. He's done an ok job giving the difficult circumstances but United Fans want to go to Old Trafford to be entertained and watch Attacking swashbuckling football.
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