Woody Briefing Press About Failed Transfers

Originally Posted by Kangared

But would the banks loan us plebs the money if we were already in debt to the tune of 5 times the mortgage we want ?

Depends on your other assets. You no they wouldn't , billionaires - yes they would.

Don't care about the numbers tbh but Liverpool's business in the market puts ours to £#%&!ing shame.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Don't care about the numbers tbh but Liverpool's business in the market puts ours to £#%&!ing shame.

Yep. There was an article a while ago about the level of detail they go into in the research and scouting of new players that was quite incredible. Whereas it feels like ours are pulled out of a £#%&!ing hat

Originally Posted by Ethers

Yep. There was an article a while ago about the level of detail they go into in the research and scouting of new players that was quite incredible. Whereas it feels like ours are pulled out of a £#%&!ing hat

Nah our research is all about how many clicks it will generate and whether it will excite sponsors.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Nah our research is all about how many clicks it will generate and whether it will excite sponsors.

True.

Originally Posted by Ethers

Yep. There was an article a while ago about the level of detail they go into in the research and scouting of new players that was quite incredible. Whereas it feels like ours are pulled out of a f***ing hat

This has been the case forever - Bebe anyone?

Originally Posted by Ethers

Yep. There was an article a while ago about the level of detail they go into in the research and scouting of new players that was quite incredible. Whereas it feels like ours are pulled out of a £#%&!ing hat

The hat being fifa ranking

Presumably Fellaini is here to generate clicks from rival fans

Originally Posted by General Woundwort

Presumably Fellaini is here to generate clicks from rival fans

Moyes bought him (twice) LVG kept him and Jose' extended his contract. Failed transfers for us are the players we keep.

Originally Posted by Red Al

Nope

You can't do what the gazers did in the good old USA

You make a good point on this occasion.

Originally Posted by ScarFace

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/...attle-13064086

Some of the deals falling through make sense at least ( Mina and toby )

Woody isn't the problem.

Agreed with the reasoning, too.

Originally Posted by windy waffles

Woody isn't the problem.

Agreed with the reasoning, too.

I think Woody is fine....if he wasn't in charge of transfers. He's clearly good at running/making the club more money but we need somebody different to deal with transfers.

He's also clearly got a strict set of rules from above when it comes to being as tight as possible to the true valuation of a player.

Originally Posted by Red Al

Nope

You can't do what the gazers did in the good old USA

Leveraged buyout is illegal in America? Since when?

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

Leveraged buyout is illegal in America? Since when?

Since never, new to dim Al

I think the level of spending is fine, what it has been spent on has been a very mixed bag. Pretty much every season since Fergie left there have been deals that looked conspicuously better value than we were doing, we just look way off the pace in terms of player knowledge and more importantly knowledge of what people are available for.

Plus there are players we've got shot of that could probably have done a job, letting go of Zaha and Depay permanently rather than giving them a years loan to rebuild confidence stick out as prime examples. Letting go of Nani a year or two early given our continued hole at right wing and lack of pace.

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

Leveraged buyout is illegal in America? Since when?

They are or at least were with sports teams at the time the Glazers bought us.

Originally Posted by TripDownMiseryLane

Since never, new to dim Al

I'm sure I read something to the effect that the Glazers were doing what they did to us over here because they couldn't do it any more over there

You can call Pogba, Jose, Woowoo all you like but whilst the club is run by tight arsed investment bankers who don’t give a shite and have no appreciation of the club other than its profitability.... this didn’t start with Moyes, LVG or Jose. It started a few years before Fergie saw the writing on the wall, when he replaced Ronaldo with Owen etc. steady decline started from European Champions to this. We won’t get relegated but this is heading towards the post-Busby debacle.

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

You can call Pogba, Jose, Woowoo all you like but whilst the club is run by tight arsed investment bankers who don’t give a shite and have no appreciation of the club other than its profitability.... this didn’t start with Moyes, LVG or Jose. It started a few years before Fergie saw the writing on the wall, when he replaced Ronaldo with Owen etc. steady decline started from European Champions to this. We won’t get relegated but this is heading towards the post-Busby debacle.

United haven't had an owner that just loved the club ever, Edward's and his dad before him were using it to line their pockets before we went public.

We've spent £650million on players since Fergie left having just finished 13 points clear, what does a non parasite level of spending look like? How much did the job really need? I'm not a fan of how the Glazers bought the club but getting beat by the likes of Brighton and Huddersfield and struggling to beat Burnley cannot be blamed on a lack of spending.

Originally Posted by ScholesGingerSheen

United haven't had an owner that just loved the club ever, Edward's and his dad before him were using it to line their pockets before we went public.

We've spent £650million on players since Fergie left having just finished 13 points clear, what does a non parasite level of spending look like? How much did the job really need? I'm not a fan of how the Glazers bought the club but getting beat by the likes of Brighton and Huddersfield and struggling to beat Burnley cannot be blamed on a lack of spending.

This.

Money has been spent. A lot of it. Throwing money isn't the issue. The lack of the right manager who can get the best out of players is the problem.