#2 Woodward’s experience
When Woodward came into the club with David Moyes, his first summer was a hot mess. The executive vice-chairman struggled to sign the players that the club wanted and, in the end, started the new season with Marouane Fellaini as the only signing.
The embarrassment of Fellaini’s transfer was that Manchester United could have purchased him for £23m, his release clause, but, instead, they waited and pondered, and, in the end, had to pay over the odds because it had a timer on it.
However, three years on, Woodward has grown into the role and shown that he is now capable of bringing in the players that are needed. From the outside, it might look easy to go and sign players or managers given the money they have, but you also have to sell the dream - especially when the club are not in the Champions League and that’s exactly what he did with the likes of Pogba and Ibrahimovic.
