A credible United expert pointed out that the outgoing but lingering club executive vice-president Ed Woodward has a lot of responsibility for the players' internal strife that the dressing room is currently experiencing.
Manchester United officially announced on Thursday that Woodward, who has long since confirmed his departure, will officially step down on February 1, and the current group general manager Richard Arnold will become the director, but unlike Santokuzi, the title of Second Tokuko is Manchester United President. But Woodward is likely to remain as a Manchester United adviser, and his successor is also a businessman, Arnold, a change of personnel that is considered to be a new bottle of old wine, soup and no change of medicine.
At the same time, the British media confirmed that the Manchester United dressing room split into many small groups, and as many as 17 first-team players were accused of having a bad time. Laurie Whitwell, a Manchester United reporter for "The Athletic," said many of the claims stemmed from Woodward's haphazard move to renew a Manchester United player.
The current number of first-team players on United's official website is as high as 38, mainly because Woodward has extended many contracts for players who should have been directly terminated in order to "protect the value of players". In the era of Van Gaal's coaching, Van Persie, Little Pea Hernandez, Nani and other players were sold at a low price, and Santoriko was shelled for this, and he overcorrected, in the subsequent players to stay, no matter who is renewed, trying to maintain the value of the players in order to sell to make money, the result is that because of the limited level of selling, it is ultimately impossible to clean, these players eventually stayed in Manchester United.
Eventually, United's personnel became overly bloated, and although the club rented out multiple players, Lonnick sometimes still had to take in 26 first-team players to train together, and there were only 11 starts and 9 substitutes in a Premier League game, which meant that many players not only could not play the game, but even could not enter the big list, they had difficulty maintaining momentum, and they would also be dissatisfied with the lack of opportunities.
People like Eric Bai, Marta and Phil Jones played just 23 games in total in 2020/21. Bai is incomprehensible to Manchester United for activating their two-year priority renewal rights and then not making a few appearances this season; Manchester United have also used Mata's one-year renewal option, while the Spanish midfielder has not played a minute in the Premier League this season; Jones was surprised by a call from Woodward in 2019 to 2023.
Woodward's poor signings forced Solskjaer to accept a contract extension for his existing players or he might have no one to use. After Romelu Lukaku was sold to Inter in 2019, United did not buy a new centre-forward.
In 2020, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hoped to get Glalish or Sancho, but Woodward gave up because Villa and Borussia Dortmund were asking too high.
United eventually split £80m apart, signing the likes of Van der Beek, Armad Diallo and Fakundo Perristri, who played 680 Premier League minutes for Manchester United last season, while Glaliche played 2,184 minutes at Villa, scored six goals and assisted 10 times, and moved to Manchester City for £100 million.
Woodward's performance in terms of player sales has been even worse. This summer, Manchester United sold Daniel James to Leeds United for a transfer fee of £25 million, which is already a masterpiece of Santokuzi. But this is just Woodward's seventh deal to sell more than £10m since taking office in 2013.
United should have sold redundant players more directly, but James was the only one at the club in the summer window, with Andreas Pereira, Tuanzebi and Tahith Chong all just renting them out. If United had sold Jesse Lingard in the summer, they would have received at least £20 million, but Woodward kept him behind, and neither Ole gunnar Solskjaer nor Ronnick would have used it.
Earlier, Mourinho wanted to purge Two France internationals, Martial and Pogba, but the club refused. Now, pogba, bought back for £90m, could once again leave the team for free, and Martial has struggled to find his next home.
In the goalkeeper position, Manchester United gave the main goalkeeper De Gea a new contract with a maximum salary of 375,000 pounds, while renewing the contract of England international Dean Henderson with a weekly salary of 120,000 pounds, which gave the latter a false illusion that he would take the position, and now That Gea has regained his form, the ambitious Henderson, because Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has not fulfilled his promise to let him take over the No. 1 position, and has become an important member of the dressing room.
In contrast, city-like City have been furious, selling Spanish young genius Felan Torres in January, past exploits Aguero and David Silva were also sent away in due course, Guardiola and the club's top brass dared to give up the first-team giants, and Manchester United did not even give up players who had not played for two years.
Fundamentally, United don't know what kind of player they want, the scouting dispatch is very chaotic, and signing Ronaldo, Cavani and even Varane is not a planned transfer, but an operation inspired by Woodward receiving a call from his agent.
Therefore, no matter who is the Manager of Manchester United, there will be nothing to do about the situation in the dressing room, because this stems from the self-righteous decisions made by the top from the perspective of economic interests, which are contrary to the laws of football.
Woodward's tenure tripled United's club value to £2.4 billion, and the owner's Glazer family will miss him. But Manchester United fans will only celebrate his departure.