*To clarify I mean a good job with the commercial side of things obviously not the footballing side.
Yes commercial revenues and revenues in general have shot up during his tenure. However they have for every top side in the Prem and given United were already seen as the biggest draw/name in English football at the time of his appointment it likely would've happened under anyone's watch.
So in reality, Ed may have simply been in the right place at the right time. Like a baby boomer who happened to be offered the right to buy his council house for £15k in 1980 that's now worth a cool million.
The Glazers relationship with Woodward goes back (to my knowledge) with him advising/assisting them with the purchase of United which ruined the clubs finances, putting it into hundreds of millions of pounds worth of debt over night. With them of course becoming incredibly wealthy from it.
I imagine they have a soft spot for him.
Has Ed Woodward really done a good job?
posted on 18/10/19
Ed Woodward is a marketing and commercial superstar who is forever opening the EPL up to untapped revenue streams across the globe, and every club that isn't Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool owes more than 75% of their annual revenues to his tireless efforts. Because let's face it, nobody outside a small core group of fans wants to watch anyone else play.
posted on 18/10/19
So in reality, Ed may have simply been in the right place at the right time. Like a baby boomer who happened to be offered the right to buy his council house for £15k in 1980 that's now worth a cool million.
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Those smug bastirts. Millionaires and have stacked shelves all their lives.
posted on 18/10/19
comment by Pride of the North (U6803)
posted 38 minutes ago
comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 2 minutes ago
Team plays bad and Ed Woodward gets the blame
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I was at Anfield when you boys were protesting about Hicks & Gillette. How soon they forget
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They were the owners who took out a loan which they could not repay. We were close to becoming another Leeds. Selling our best players and getting Konchesky and Bodgson as our manager. That protest was valid
posted on 18/10/19
No he hasn't, He's absolutely clueless when it comes to transfers, He needs to go before we get relegated.
posted on 18/10/19
The MUFC I fell in love with back in the late 60s has become MU.
That's no single individuals responsibility. It's the club members, fans and supporters fault for idly letting it happen through misguided ideas about what being a club supporter means.
Accepting commercial priorities over footballing ones is all fine and dandy when footballing success is still a consequence. But not when introducing players that are clearly not cut out for the premier league - let alone success in the premier league - becomes transfer policy.
Herrera, Falcao, Di Maria, Rafael were ALL clearly not premier league capable players BEFORE they arrived - if little ol' me knew that, then those associated with the club should also have known it. And whilst Ibra and Schwein were, there is an emphasis on WERE.
Get back to being a football club, learn from the mistakes, learn from Leicester City (sad but true), put capable players on the pitch, and then, and only then, sprinkle with stardust.
You can't put icing on a cake without first making the cake, as me ol' Auntie Mabel used to mutter
posted on 18/10/19
comment by rosso is facking happy (U17054)
posted 5 hours, 47 minutes ago
Yes; he has done a very good job with commercial revenues, and a decent job in general with the finances at United.
Despite this, I hate him with a flaming passion and wish him nothing but pain and suffering for the rest of his days.
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Oh dear.
posted on 18/10/19
Ed's done OK in what was a very very difficult role to fill.
posted on 18/10/19
Ed has done awful. the commercial side writes its own cheques, license to print money, he could hardly fail here. Football side utterly atrocious .
posted on 18/10/19
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Ed has done awful. the commercial side writes its own cheques, license to print money, he could hardly fail here. Football side utterly atrocious .
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A complete moron would think differently
posted on 18/10/19
comment by Roys Keane (U11635)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Ed has done awful. the commercial side writes its own cheques, license to print money, he could hardly fail here. Football side utterly atrocious .
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A complete moron would think differently
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I can think of one that fits...