Grande
Full Member
Speaking about the club being slow to react. How many years did Woodward need to find Murtough and give him the job?
I know it’s a joke, but I’ll answer it seriously anyway: Nine months. is what it took from Woodward replaced Gill in february 2013, until he snatched Murtough from his Head of Development position at the FA. Since then he has been groomed for this.
They did sign Bruno who has been an excellent signing, on the other hand when Spurs were close to signing him a few months earlier we weren’t interested and were pursuing Longstaff instead.
Have to remember as well these guys have been responsible for dishing out new contracts to likes of Jones recently so I think it’s quite right for there to be mixture of scepticism as well as optimism.
Isn't Matt Judge the one most responsible for contracts up till now and it seems his responsibilities are being reduced?
A balance of optimism and scepticism is surely warranted, we don’t know much about which guys did what these last seven years at the club. There have been clear progress both in terms of player aquisition and player displacement after Solskjær came, but we don’t know if Solskjær is as much the symptom of new thoughts as the bringer of new thoughts at the club. Hopefully both.
Part of the process of renewing Jones etc, can be as much the result of herky jerky decisions as of stupidity in itself. A manager wants a new CB but doesn’t mind the depth. An accountant thinks about how much can be saved by renewing Jones insteadnof buying an expensive new CB. A head of development maybe sees keeping Jones over buying New CB keeps a clear patj for Tuanzebe or Mengi. People talk past each other easily, so there is a possible boon in itself collecting the responsibility of taking in the whole perspective in one role and giving him power to execute it. And that role is better suited for an innovative football development man than a shrewd business man.