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Originally Posted by AK14
It’s pretty well known that Van Gaal wanted certain players only to be told no...
Woodward has allowed three (hopefully this is 4th time lucky) very different managers to re build the squad while also having a say on how the rebuild is done and also pulling the plug on the rebuilds after two years and progress (of sorts).
Ole has already had the rug pulled out from under him by the club not getting a replacement for Lukaku this summer, something he wanted and has already started to make comments about.
The last three managers have to take a large portion of the blame for it not working out here obviously. But let’s not pretend the structure above them didn’t have any sort of impact on them failing.
Anyway let’s hope Ole is a success (I have faith in him) so we don’t have to read anymore of these type of threads.
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Good post, particularly bold bit. Don't want to dwell on any of the managers but they are the first people responsible for where we are at. Their failure could have been mitigated by any number of things such as a scouting network, competent negotiators etc but each got sacked as we were going nowhere.
With regards Ole complaining about not getting a striker, possibly more of a subbie at the scouts but as with RW where imo they are waiting until next year to try for Sancho who is their number 1 target and not settling for someone down the list, I think the players they thought were gettable this summer weren't long-term prospects. The question is why they weren't gettable; budget, scouting, negotiation failure etc.