I'd agree in general but I think Nev is too clued up to ignore. I suppose he doesn't have the European reach some of these big DOF's have but seeing as we're starting with an inexperienced manager we might as well nurture Neville in a directors role too.
Reason why I wouldn't like Neville is because he seems to let his emotions get the best of him. He didn't like Pogba having blue hair just because of the Manchester Derby. This, despite Pogba having that for 2 weeks already. It's pretty much irrelevant to anything on the pitch. Anyone being objective would never bring up something as insignificant as that. Plus, why would Neville inspire confidence in sacking a manager should the manager not be doing well? He has a clear bias.
Having a fullback who can defend would be a good start. If nothing else, it would stop Young being on and taking freekicks - worth £50m for that alone
Meunier is a clear upgrade on Ashley Young and experienced so gives Dalot time to develope without any pressure. Why spend £50m on a young RB when we have one already, who was regarded as the best talent coming from their home country when we signed them? We also have young FBs coming through our academy and having 2 young RBs already would block their path to the first team.
I mean others are right, there's certainly better candidates out there - but considering we've never had a DoF and the state we're in, I think Neville would be an excellent starting point that we could actually acquire.
My worry is that AWB is very average with the ball. Combine it with Shaw and our fullbacks are very much useless going forward. I think we should opt for someone with more attacking ability for RB, Meunier would be more sensible buy IMO.
Brilliant, good for him, he's still an upgrade on Young. Yes he might be better than Dalot but Dalot has the higher potential ceiling imo, sort out him defensive qualities and we have a world class RB there. Highly rated by all our Portugese friends on the Caf, who all said at the time he's a bargain at £19m. It's telling that Porto weren't fussed about selling Pereira to Leicester as they had Dalot who could come in and had better potential also, he also won the u17s Euro championship with Portugal in 2016.
Yes I agree. I haven’t seen or heard a lot of Fletcher but he does seem reasonably dispassionate and objective.
He had a £19m release clause, they were trying to get him to sign a new contract with a higher release clause but we got there in time.
For a minute I thought there must be another Darren Fletcher, but nope it's the one that's been a player the last 20 years. Safe to assume that in those 20 years which he's been focused on his ability as a player that he's built a network throughout Europe and has polished his scouting and negotiating tactics to the point of playing a key role in this massive rebuild. Surely, right?
So it took us a year to hire frigging Darren Fletcher?....
Think of the combined experience of Ole, Carrick and now maybe Fletcher in their roles (good blokes though get behind em!). And then consider Woodward's total lack of understanding of the sport.
Not really sure that's true. If we were going to pick an ex-player because he's an ex player, we were hardly going to put Darren Fletcher at the top of the list are we? He still had to interview.
