Woodward set to stay on as Executive Vice Chairman

This is extremely sad news. Awful news. F***ing unbelievable really.

How can this club progress within it's current structure... we now have opposing fans, literally, laughing at us on a regular basis. It's an absolute shambles.
 
For feck sake. What can go wrong here if Woody stays? We only have a precedent of 8 years and 3 wrong appointments (Moyes was appointed before Woody got the job).
Doesn't matter in the least, to be fair. His replacement is even worse
 
Doesn't matter in the least, to be fair. His replacement is even worse
Do we even know that? We know that Woody is a total failure. Arnold probably is too, but at least he hasn’t been fecking awful for 8 years like Woody was. Not yet, anyway.
 
The strange thing is I don’t really understand any benefit to this to the Glazers. When he announced he was leaving, the club was relatively stable and it looked like it could have been the most successful appointment since Fergie.

As it is, it’s just another failure from Woodward. It’s actually bizarre that they don’t just boot him out. Does he actually have dirt on them from the takeover or something, he’s not even adding anything financially to the club any more.
 
I am pretty sure he is a Liverpool supporter and his sole purpose is to destroy our club image.
Woodward the trojan virus.
 
He was never leaving - that announcement was just a PR exercise to quell public anger after the ESL fiasco.
 
4 of the 5 most expensive players in the EPL. Please go away immediately dude.
 
Do we even know that? We know that Woody is a total failure. Arnold probably is too, but at least he hasn’t been fecking awful for 8 years like Woody was. Not yet, anyway.
Yes, we do. He is an accountant, not a football person and his only qualification is having been the minion or the disastrous Ed Woodward. So, Arnold is a budget version of Woody.

We need to stop giving benefit of doubt to unqualified nobodies. Manchester United is a big club, it shouldn't be a training ground for people like Woodward and Arnold
 
FFS another disastrous appointment looms from the Banker. Or perhaps he’ll let the media choose the next interim/permanent (two years) manager. The media seem to choose all our players. I hope it’s not Rodgers as he is Ole mk 2. Winning stuff in a two team league doesn’t count.
 
I hope "Delay" doesn't mean he'll never leave. He announced to leave because our net worth and revenues are decreasing at an alarming rate. He 100% wants to jump ship before it sinks and he, rightfully so, gets the blame.
 
Likely to end in another storming of his house or the ground.

Add this to the list of feck ups by our owners.
 
Couldn’t make this stuff up :lol:

I’ve said many times over the last ten years that we’ll never again experience consistent success at the highest level, as long as this incompetent bean counter is in charge of the club. He’s shown again and again that he has no idea of what it takes to make a football club successful. Yet he continues to be entrusted with the responsibility of doing just that at United, after near a decade of failing.

The mind boggles.
 
I, for one, feel a little safer with this knowledge. It would be too much of an upheavel to lose the manager and Woody in a short space of time. Remember Fergie and David Gill left together and it was too much change to handle.
 
The club yes, the Glazers no, they'll still be collecting their dividends, and pocketing something nice every time our Ed shores up another noodle sponsorship.

That's the only positive I can salvage from all this - I'm hoping the Glazers' disregard for the long-term outlook of the club means that they'd be looking to sell at some point sooner rather than later.

the club could've been worth more today if it were run properly, increasing the glazers' wealth.
or, to use a naive hyperbole, the 100s of millions of misused pounds could have gone directly into their pockets instead of paying for flops such as schneiderlin, falcao, di maria, dalot, bailly, lukaku, etc. with the same on-field result.
why not employ somebody who can get the same results for much less money (something very easy, let's be honest. we are burning cash for fun with hardly any success) and pocket the remaining funds??
it's the basic concept of opportunity cost. surely they must be aware that it is in their interest for the club to be run properly.


I guess they must be content with their 20m/year pocket change in dividends and don't give a crap about much else. letting their buddies play football manager in real life
 
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Just a nightmare circus with no hope of improving.
 
Guess who's back…
Back again…
Woody’s back…
Tell a friend…
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back..

He’s created a monster
'Cause nobody wants to see Edward no more
They want Woody, he’s chopped liver
Well if you want it, this is what you’ll get with Woody…
A little bit of greed mixed with some crap footy

Some nostalgia that'll jump start your heart quicker
Than a 5-0 when you get shocked at OT
By the dippers when you’re not pressing properly
Cuz you employed a league 1 manager probably…

You waited this long, now stop debating
'Cause he’s back, with the rags and he’s ovulating
I know that you got a job, Ms. Woodward
But your husband's Utd problem's complicating…

So the Super League won't let me be
Or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on MOTD
But it feels so empty, without me

And get ready, 'cause this shit's about to get heavy
I just faxed all my transfers, feck you Moysie!

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me
I said "This looks like a job for me"
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me…

B0HxFA0E_400x400.jpg
 
feck off you knitted thundercnut and never darken our door again.
 
Guess who's back…
Back again…
Woody’s back…
Tell a friend…
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back..

He’s created a monster
'Cause nobody wants to see Edward no more
They want Woody, he’s chopped liver
Well if you want it, this is what you’ll get with Woody…
A little bit of greed mixed with some crap footy

Some nostalgia that'll jump start your heart quicker
Than a 5-0 when you get shocked at OT
By the dippers when you’re not pressing properly
Cuz you employed a league 1 manager probably…

You waited this long, now stop debating
'Cause he’s back, with the rags and he’s ovulating
I know that you got a job, Ms. Woodward
But your husband's Utd problem's complicating…

So the Super League won't let me be
Or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on MOTD
But it feels so empty, without me

And get ready, 'cause this shit's about to get heavy
I just faxed all my transfers, feck you Moysie!

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me
I said "This looks like a job for me"
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me…

B0HxFA0E_400x400.jpg

:lol: bravo!
 
Someone should call the sun and tell them they’re gonna have another protest outside his house and give them the exact time when we arrive and also done so when Woody is out of town.
 
Of course he will. Guy will soon become a Liverpool legend and have his own statue alongside Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley for an amazing achievement destroying their biggest rival. Glazers couldn't care less as long as they make money.
 
Guess who's back…
Back again…
Woody’s back…
Tell a friend…
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back, guess who's back
Guess who's back..

He’s created a monster
'Cause nobody wants to see Edward no more
They want Woody, he’s chopped liver
Well if you want it, this is what you’ll get with Woody…
A little bit of greed mixed with some crap footy

Some nostalgia that'll jump start your heart quicker
Than a 5-0 when you get shocked at OT
By the dippers when you’re not pressing properly
Cuz you employed a league 1 manager probably…

You waited this long, now stop debating
'Cause he’s back, with the rags and he’s ovulating
I know that you got a job, Ms. Woodward
But your husband's Utd problem's complicating…

So the Super League won't let me be
Or let me be me, so let me see
They try to shut me down on MOTD
But it feels so empty, without me

And get ready, 'cause this shit's about to get heavy
I just faxed all my transfers, feck you Moysie!

Now this looks like a job for me
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me
I said "This looks like a job for me"
So everybody, just follow me
'Cause we need a little, controversy
'Cause it feels so empty, without me…

B0HxFA0E_400x400.jpg
:lol:
 
[Jamie Carragher] Shambolic Manchester United are providing a textbook example of how not to run a football club | United are one of the biggest clubs in the world - it is about time they started acting like it



:o:mad:
 
I hate how the Glazers/Woodward have been able to package a pile of manure shit results on the pitch into a nicely packaged nostalgia heritage box for the fans to lap it up. It's 8 years of fecking disasters on the pitch with zero title bids or CL ambitions (other than to play in the group stages) and instead of the root cause (aka ownership + Woodward) the fans have been engaged in civil war arguing about individual players, or managers, or entitlement of fans, plasticity etc.

Unbelievable!

Also ridiculous that someone like Jamie Carragher can call it out, but our ledge Gazza can't seem to be able to.
 
United have become the club that reward failure and ineptitude. What a banter club we are becoming.
 
He's the f**king reason our appointments have been so poor.
Get him tfeck outta the club.
 
Predictable.

He always intended this. He wanted the ESL thing to blow over, deliver us a good transfer window and be in and amongst the title contenders at this point when the decision is announced.

It’s all gone to shit so he’s playing it as “I’m needed in this moment of crisis” instead.

This moment of crisis is down to him and him alone, his exit will begin the repairing process.
This right here is the stone cold truth
 
:lol:

Basically he set Ole as a pawn ♟ so he could turn around and stay. 4D chess!
 
To he fair, I don’t think there is a big difference between having Arnold or Woodward in charge. A football man like, say, van der Sar as CEO was never going to happen.