Manchester United fans expecting a shift in power in replacement of chief executive Ed Woodward are set to be baffled as the club hopes to promote from within their authority.
Woodward has been a figure of extreme hatred for some, United fans since the Glazer family assumed responsibility for the Red Devils. Many have pummeled him for his blundering moves and transfer deals and his over-obstruction in group undertakings.
It was trusted that his resignation would give a chance for a footballing man to be selected in his place, with former United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, as of now overseeing director at Ajax, generally promoted as an ideal substitution. Van der Sar himself as of late indicated that he would be keen on the job.
Yet, The Guardian reports that the likely substitution will be another inward competitor with no football family, Richard Arnold.
Regardless of Joel Glazers’ sincere cowering to the fans this week and guarantees that he and his family are tuning in, doubtlessly they have no expectation of changing the state of affairs and putting football and football individuals in any significant job at the club. Those that they choose are speculation financiers and corporate sponsorship specialists with no connection to football.
Numerous fans were energized when in March, United, at last, named a person who is related to football. Yet, this arrangement, once more, came from the inside – John Murtough, a man with no family at all as a wearing chief.
Many at the time contended that it was an insignificant idea, particularly as the unpleasantly incompetent Matt Judge, who has screwed up more transfer dealings than he has finished up, was held as the ‘director of football negotiations’.
Football is a reconsideration at Manchester United and if Arnold, Baty, or Tseayo are selected to the chief executive job, that position will be solidified significantly further and there will be no improvement at all.