You’re right hopefully a sign of good things.
Hopefully. Looks pretty good on paper to me. But honestly I think it’s too early to say if it’s good in action or not. If a manager must be judged over a couple of season, a FD must be judged over a couple of managers, at the minimum.
Don't think he had too much to do with the summer signings. Woodward wanted Ronaldo, and also contacted agents regarding Varane according to The Athletic and obviously, Solskjaer was desperate for Sancho. IMO Murtough can take credit for Rangnick and now Ten Hag.
I guess it’s hard to tell for any of us really who wanted which player how much. What we know, is that Murtaugh, Solskjær, Woodgate all would be involved with and probably at least ok with the summer signings. I think it came out that Joel Glazer was involved in the Ronaldo decision, so I agree it smacks of Woodward. But with Woodward going out and Murtaugh supposed to take charge of those kind of assesments, I would be shocked if he wasn’t central in the decisions to approach Varane and accept the outlay on Sancho. But what do I know really. What we know is that Murtaugh is a part of that window, but not the windows before, due to his role at the club.
The guy has been here since Moyes and it was all but confirmed by the club he just got a job title change when he was appointed as DoF.
Murtough also oversaw the failure to bring in one decent midfielder over two transfer windows, a weakness that every United fan could have pointed out.
This is just another example of bigging up someone for average decisions which most fans would have made.
You misunderstand. I’m not bigging him up, I’m just summarizing what little we know of his actions as a Football Director at United. Wether it is a good job or not, is far to early to say. We lack most of the context.
Before march 21, however, we know his job description and task was very different, it has been informed widely about, shouldn’t be too hard to google. He has been restructuring the Academy, starting up the Women’s team, restructuring the set up around internal recruitment/bringing players from youth to first team, and restructuring the recruitment systems, and developing a data analysing unit, and been involved in deciding the structure of how to run the club, including the role he has now been put into. There is nothing pointing towards him having a say on transfers or managerial choices before last summer eindow.
