03 Sep 2013 23:49:58
Woodward seems to be getting a lot of stick on the site and I can understand why, I'm sure most people would think they could of done better.
But if you take a step back could this man of really got to where he is in life and be that inept, personally I wouldn't of thought so .
I think there has been a lot of smoke and mirrors this summer

1.) 04 Sep 2013
Or perhaps naivety in his new role.

2.) 04 Sep 2013
Just b/c you're good at signing sponsors doesn't mean you're good at signing players. And now it'll be even worse bc he's not just incompetent, but he's insulted half of the clubs in Europe with his clueless antics.

3.) 04 Sep 2013
04 Sep 2013 08:03:42
I think G.A.G.U.S nailed it.

4.) 04 Sep 2013
We don't need a Equalizer we need a winner!

5.) 04 Sep 2013
Jred

I think we completely screwed up our transfers by a combination of being misled (Fabregas) if you believe some of the sources on this site, complete lack of a planning ahead because moyes thought he would get Baines and herrera then realizing they have miscalculated and panicking.

Make no mistake, offering 40 million for Khedira with a couple of hours to go is a clear sign of panic and mismanagement, especially when reading reports that Ozil told Khedira a few days earlier he was leaving and looks like Wenger unlike us clearly knew what he wanted and planned for it and the Bale deal was the hold up to get things signed and sealed.

I know woodward is getting a lot of stick as he should rightfully, but the manager for sure has been involved in all of this as well.

If we were ready to buy Herrera and Fellaini, why did we not just go for Ozil and Khedira as both were available and great mates and would have given us a CL winning team and solved all our midfield issues.

I am looking forward to Moyes next press conference as they will have a field day with him and interested to see how he reacts and what he has got to say.

Depending on how the City game goes Moyes might be in for a lashing that he has never experienced. To be honest I am very pessimistic about our chances against city and hope I am wrong, knowing fully people are going to react to my pessimism :)

6.) 04 Sep 2013
MU usually promote within and this kind of thing is new to Ed. Sure he knows how to close a deal and there will be other advisers around who have been doing it for years, but over time a Chief Ex will build rapports with agents and chairmen of other clubs. Ed is a baby in the game and I question why in such an important point our transition why the Glazers appointed someone who is so inexperienced and unknown in the field. Arsenal suffered when David Dein left as he had unlimited sources and he had a lot of agent friends. His brother is an agent. Ed always needed to start somewhere, but I think it would have been better had David Gill left in September, not June. Ed Woodward can only get so much criticism, but the overall fault must lay with his employers.

7.) 04 Sep 2013
According to one paper this morning, the Herrera deal didn't go through because Moyes wasn't willing to pay the asking price, thinking he was over-valued. He has a reputation for not wanting to pay over the odds, apparently. This seems bizarre, given that Woodward is the vice-chair and presumably more in charge of the money than Moyes, and that they desperately needed to make some kind of signing. So it was better to save £4m and do without a player? Also, Fellaini supposedly went without his loyalty bonus to force his move through, so Utd still didn't actually pay more than the release clause fee.

8.) 04 Sep 2013
John, it isn't Moyes decision, it's Ed Woodward's job. The Glazers would leave it up to him to decide and he decided the fee was over the odds. I agree, it was over the odds, even Balague said so, but we SHOULD have paid it. I have been saying all season that we need to pay over the odds this summer to get that much needed midfielder. Once that was done we could go back to penny pinching.