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"The Manchester United director of football operations will not be involved with any transfer or scouting activity at the club.
It is understood that Jose Mourinho will retain autonomy as United manager despite calls from certain supporters for a traditional director of football to oversee their recruitment. It is understood the director of football operations' remit is a new role which is an updated version of the traditional club secretary role. It heads up logistics, facilities, travel registrations and other similar departments." |
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Wouldn't be surprised if this also heralds a more frugal approach to transfer spending. May be that Woody doesn't fancy taking the shit for what's in the mail so he's content to sidestep it by taking a non-public role.
I'm told there was a meeting the other week where the club stated they were shelving plans to redevelop the south stand in order to invest heavily in the playing staff this summer. There was nothing concrete given to me but the general sums being thrown around were circa 300 mill for the stand. It also needs to be noted that this was before we got dumped out f the CL and the budgets had to be heavily adjusted. Whether or not that was accurate or how much of that was planned to be used on the squad, I couldn't say. Could be they've decided to have a final run at catching city's squad before battening down the hatches and looking at a more serviceable financial future. Also FIFA/UEFA continue to talk about implementing a transfer cap (currently mooted at around 100 mil euros per season). That was suggested to come in at the end of this season but that now looks highly unlikely. One way or another though, some form of it is probably coming. I'd imagine we'll see a lot of heavy spending going on from large clubs with that looming in the future. If it comes in, all contracts, releases and future windows will change massively. Something I can't see being appealing to Woodward as more and more fees have to be back-doored through shady bonuses, percentages of companies, deeds to properties and a myriad of other sketchy shit. It'll be a total mess and awash with constant investigations. Just like FFP and any other attempt at financial regulation, for all the honorable intention, it will just create more problems than it solves. Makes much more sense for Woodward to put a buffer between himself and a boat load of legally dubious deals. Much better to appoint someone to take the fall for it if it all blows up under official scrutiny. He can just appoint someone else and continue as before. |
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