How he can watch us play every week and think this brand of football is acceptable is beyond me
Man Utd set to appoint Director of Football (when hell freezes over)
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He doesn't care about brand of football.
Do you live with your head up your own arse?
He's there to make money and all his decisions are based on making money.
I agree with all of this. We are a club in turmoil from the top down and the buck stops with Woodward and the glazers.
I do not understand his thinking in keeping Mourinho. Should have been sacked weeks ago when we had a small chance of top 4
maybe they washed it before the game
Hopefully they washed it in blood mate
Moyes, LVG and now Mourinho has all failed. Guess who is the idiot that picked them?
The guy is clueless dunce when it comes to football. He is nothing but a high level mack earning a living by selling United.
Then he really is dumb AF... money will stop coming in soon the way this team performs... our top players who bring in the most money like De Gea and Pogba will soon leave. Surely he's smart enough to realize the wealthiness or popularity won't last like this?
Time for him to leak some "news" about imminent arrival of Jesus Christ Savior as DOF.
The mythical DOF that the Caf has decided will just come in and make loads and loads of really good signings.
People forget this clown does the negotiating.
Just how far down the list were Lindelof/Bailly etc? I suppose we'll never know.
Fergie 2.0?
Oh, when Jose is sacked I expect to see quite a lot of quotes from him detailing that exact experience.
The point of the DoF is so he'll be identifying and doing negotiations with players/agents/clubs.
Convenient when signings don't work out, they're woodward's deals not Mourinho's. You Mourinho fanboys have no shame.
Mourinho said the four players signed before his first season were the 4 he wanted.
He said we landed 3/4 he wanted in the second season, we later signed Sanchez as his 4th player.
I have absolutely no idea how anyone can blame Ed here for the absolute dirge of football Jose serves up on a weekly basis .
The only thing you can blame Ed for us appointing Jose and now for not sacking him .
He signed who Jose wanted as Jose admitted and apparently refused to pay 70 million each for Maguire and Toby Alderweid which shows he is not as dumb as Jose
Jose is responsible for the garbage we see week in week out
The only thing you can blame Ed for us appointing Jose and now for not sacking him .
He signed who Jose wanted as Jose admitted and apparently refused to pay 70 million each for Maguire and Toby Alderweid which shows he is not as dumb as Jose
Jose is responsible for the garbage we see week in week out
Blaming Ed for 3 successive misses, and lack of strategic direction that should be occurring regardless of the manager.
It's also the time where SAF and Gill left, so no it's not a coincidence.
The man is on a cocaine binge 24/7, sitting in his vip seat and chest pounding about being in control of the biggest sport brand in the world.
That's the only rational explanation for his behavior in the last 6 years. Feck off.
That's the only rational explanation for his behavior in the last 6 years. Feck off.
Woodward is our DoF!
He decides on which managers to hire.
He gets recommendations on players from the head coach and scouts and then decides who to buy and who not to.
Ed Woodward is evil. He takes pleasure from our torment and will do nothing to save us.
For the love of God, Ed sack this man ffs!
For the love of God, Ed sack this man ffs!
How this clown remain immune to scrutiny is a mystery. He is the reason for our decline. A serious club would have put Mourinho out of his misery way early on but Woodward is sitting in his VIP looking constipated. If the next manager fail as well, Woodward must be removed.
They both need to be blamed. Ed and glazers on the macro-level. Mourinho has 100% accountability and shoulders 80% of the blame on the micro level.
That is nothing to do with football that Jose serves up . Like I said the only thing I can blame Ed for us not sacking Jose already.
DoF? He couldn't direct traffic.
So sack Jose and everything is cool?
It's a huge step in the right direction . Sacking Ed and keeping Jose is no step forward .
The most important thing right now is getting rid of Jose his tumescent football and his constant blaming everyone bar himself
I think United may already be looking at their options for replacing Jose. We will know for sure in the transfer window if Jose lasts that long.
No one said it has to be either Ed or Jose.
Sack Jose for tactical issues on the pitch. Sack or sideline Ed for strategic organizational failure, as demonstrated by the 5 years he's been in charge.
To simply sack Jose and bring in another manager without evaluation of the entire structure of the club is recipe for us having this same conversation 2 years down the line. Remember how it was when Mourinho was hired? Yeah. Exactly.
Sack this clown.
Remember when people thought he was a king because he was massively overpaying washed up players? It didn't matter that he overpaid almost every player, as long as he was bringing them people were praising him. Kolarov is right.
Is anyone saying that? I see a team that is not playing for their manager. That means it's pretty much over. I'm just convinced that we need someone in who can do Woodward's job, because Woodward can't.
Lets see how much damage Woodward has done when our two main managerial targets in Zidane and Pochettino don't come in the summer.
We'll see what their opinions are on the structure and our players when they're asked the dreaded question by Woodward.
I'm almost pretty sure Zidane has knocked him back already.
Whether the Caf like it or not, they will look at Mourinho and Van Gaal failing here and will think "not sure about that job"
We'll see what their opinions are on the structure and our players when they're asked the dreaded question by Woodward.
I'm almost pretty sure Zidane has knocked him back already.
Whether the Caf like it or not, they will look at Mourinho and Van Gaal failing here and will think "not sure about that job"
You could argue that nobody has done more damage to United, at least in modern history, the Ed Woodward.
I don't want either of those two
He's right in the shit mix with The Glazers. The Glazers help drive his decisions but Woodward helped them take over the club as well so that's a score draw. I can't believe some on here defend either of them.
He really has been a disaster, he needs to feck off when Mourinho leaves although he seems to be unsackable for some reason. Surely at some point the Glazers will demand answers as to why he keeps making such poor managerial decisions.
A lot of work needs doing and he's not the man to oversee it, the scouting system has been laughable, could count on one hand the amount of good signings we've made. Hardly any of our signings complement each other, we've neglected problem positions for far too long, held on to garbage players for far too long and we're giving players contracts who've done nothing to deserve them which leaves the next manager stuck with them even longer.
Coaching hasn't been great either, compared to the other big clubs we're shocking at developing players, most of the players end up leaving worse than when they arrived. I don't know what their instructions are but they can't seem to coach an attack to save their lives.
Worst of all for me which makes it unforgivable, is holding onto managers who have no business being here. Mourinho and Woodward are absolutely destroying us. I worry for our future if he gets to pick our next manager, history tells us there's a chance he'll get himself involved with the footballing side of things again which could lead to him going against the manager, like he did in the transfer season, and we'd be back to square one again.
It's almost as important to get him out as it is Mourinho at this point.
A lot of work needs doing and he's not the man to oversee it, the scouting system has been laughable, could count on one hand the amount of good signings we've made. Hardly any of our signings complement each other, we've neglected problem positions for far too long, held on to garbage players for far too long and we're giving players contracts who've done nothing to deserve them which leaves the next manager stuck with them even longer.
Coaching hasn't been great either, compared to the other big clubs we're shocking at developing players, most of the players end up leaving worse than when they arrived. I don't know what their instructions are but they can't seem to coach an attack to save their lives.
Worst of all for me which makes it unforgivable, is holding onto managers who have no business being here. Mourinho and Woodward are absolutely destroying us. I worry for our future if he gets to pick our next manager, history tells us there's a chance he'll get himself involved with the footballing side of things again which could lead to him going against the manager, like he did in the transfer season, and we'd be back to square one again.
It's almost as important to get him out as it is Mourinho at this point.
Conversely you could argue if it wasn't for Ed and his team working their fecking tripe off for the last 4 or 5 years with sponsorship deals(Ed should have a statue outside Old Trafford for the money he screwed out of Adidas alone) we wouldn't be in the position we are now whereby we can blow practically every other club on the planet out of the water re. transfer fees and wages which has never been the case before......
That is a notion I disagree with cos there shouldn't be a corner that needs defending.
imo, a dof job is to help define and work towards achieving the footballing goals of the club in line with the vision and within the financial means of the club (and any other relevant factors). He should be balancing all relevant interests and factors.
The manager is primarily charged with achieving the footballing goals on the pitch. Thus the DoF should be acting in support of it.
The idea of needing to veto is symptomatic of underlying problems. If you do not trust the manager's judgement, why is he your mansger?
If the DoF is having to 'defend' then he either is not doing his job properly or your goals are not aligned with your manager's. In either case, changes in personnel and/or goals need to be made asap.
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