Long time no see everyone! Been busy with my university studies so I've been away for a while, but now I'm back and I want to comment on United's current transfer performance with the club's vice chairman, Ed Woodward. Warning, profanity below (lol).

What can I say, the man's absolutely useless at his job. Last year, he failed to sign any players before the start of the 12/13 season despite the fact that we were champions under the newly appointed David Moyes. It was the time when the rumors of signing Thiago Alcantara was all over the goddamn papers for not weeks, but fken months, and at the end, Thiago even said it himself that the club hasn't even called him once; in the end, it was obvious that signing Marroane Fellaini was the result of panic, hence we had to spend an extra 4M(not accurate, just from memory) on the agreed price, fken hell.

During the mid season transfers, this is not usually the time for United to sign any players, but due to the horror before, it was evident that a signing was a priority to strengthen the squad. At the end, I felt that Chelsea got the better hand, and I'm not denying the fact that Juan Mata is a bad player, I think he's superb, but 37M? Was too much if you ask me, and once again, although Deadward managed to sign the player, he failed to have a proper negotiation to comfort both club parties for the price.

Today, Ander Herrera and Luke Shaw were signed, both close to 30M each, and did I forgot to mention that it took Deadwood one whole fken year, yes there was a novel sized book of rumours signing him last season as well, to sign Herrera?! And the prices for both players are still questionable, because we have yet seen the true potential of Herrera in this upcoming season, and god I hope he fulfils it, while Luke Shaw, a hugely paid player, receives a hamstring injury MOST likely due to his below par fitness level, which really makes me question whether or not Southampton got the better deal at the end.

I sometimes wish one of the clubs, or even the players can end the goddamn rumours just making a declaration themselves for what will happen better him and the future club. We have already that Vidal isn't coming to Manchester United, but why are so many fans still deluded to the rumours that he will join us? He's not, face it. The man already made up his mind. Hummels is also a no brainer, HE'S NOT JOINING US! Not only did Klopp said it in the press a few weeks ago, Hummels was also named captain, and that I'm already convinced that he isn't going to join United.

However, it isn't these player's fault that we are so frustrated with the lack of signings, it's Ed fken Deadward himself to blame. The guy's a clueless moron, and you can even tell from the interview he gave a few weeks ago (MUTV) - the man's has some sort of speech impediment as he keeps slipping in every sentence he says, and he even declared himself that he isn't a football man either, but rather, a "multi-sport" person. That just seals the deal for me, not only was David Moyes was to blame for last seasons blunder, but I'd also say that this muppet is also responsible for United's downfall. The Marcos Rojo situation is starting to get on my fken nerves as we failed to sign, or should I even say contacted, the real target, Vermaelen, who went to Barcelona (best of luck to him). But the point is, I'm starting to get really irritated with Deadward, because we're near the edge of another tough EPL season and we still need to sign 3-4 players to not even strengthen but to complete the squad.

Apologies for the cussing, but I want to let off some steam here, because I know I'm saying this on behalf of all United fans here, but FK YEWWW ED DEADWARD. Don't get sacked, just resign.

"You've lost the fans tonight, you don't ANYTHING from this club. You got the job on a technicality of a legend who recommended ya (David Gill, lol). You have NOTHING, you are a FOOL and you are a WASTE OF TIME, GOODNIGHT!"

• Mr Tate from the "Biggest Fool in Manchester" rant on the FullTimeDevils.

End of rant, thank you for reading and see you later!

I dont understand why Van Gaal didnt bring up some quality youth, United are looking good despite the few reinforcements anyway, if you look for a cheap DM, Barça would be happy to sell Song, but is it LVG style of players ?
I dont know.

@Heisinburg: Most of the transfer failings were due to Moyes as the coach. Woodard has had his problems too, but he seems excellent at making new sponsorships. The new adidas deal?
Fellaini: could have been brought for 15-18 Mill Pounds if he was brought a month before as per his release clause. Moyes knew it. It was actually a mistake that both Moyes made.
Herrera: Stated that he was not interested to play for United (under Moyes). So that deal fell through. However, when van Gaal was appointed, he wanted to play for van Gaal.
Alcantara: Picked his old coach Pep. It may have happened even if Fergie was the coach, but odds are a little lower.
Mata: Overpriced buy, probably Moyes was to blame for it. He is an excellent player though. CFC had the better deal.
Shaw: Clearly over priced. If you ask TheGame he would have gone for Ricardo Rodríguez, and I would too. He is as good as Shaw and half his price. Well, Southamption made some very profitable sales this summer. A few clubs over paid for SFC players.

@tiki_taka: van Gaal is bringing youth. Blackett will start tomorrow. He could have that position and #5 for a long time. Reece James will also probably start tomorrow at LWB. In addition, I am sure James Wilson and a few others will get an extended run in the cup games. Don't forget Janujaz. Song doesn't suit us, sorry. However, I'd be happy to trade Song for Cleverly. :D.

@ashwin, please man, don't tell me you're defending this guy. The guy has yet met LVG's expectations to sign all the players he needs, and we already are about the season, so ultimately its Woodward's who's head is on the target for thesse matters, primarily, not the manager. Adidas deal or not, it doesn't matter, we already had the bucket load of money to spend for, but it isn't the manager that is signing the cheque, it's that daft twat. And can't you see that he's sucking he blood out of our club's finances? The deal he makes is beyond belief, even Gill was surprised by some of the negotiations done by Woodward after his retirement'

@tiki_taka
We've promoted quite a few youth United players during the pre-season if that's what you mean.
Tyler Blackett, Reece James, Keane, Lingard.
I'm not sure about Song. We're more desperate in our Center Back and Wing Back situation considering Evra, Vidic, Rio's left and Shaw along with 8 other players are injured. Young's been decent this pre-season but I feel people are overrating him and I don't think we can rely on him for the whole season at the LWB role.

I trust that LVG will start buying players, all be it, a bit late.

Also another article for anyone: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/15/louis-van-gaal-premier-league-manchester-united-transfers?CMP=twt_gu
This is a bit reassuring but I just hope we actually start buying players instead of considering being interested in preparing to submit a bit for a player which has been the case for the past month with Vidal.

@Heisenburg: I am not defending the guy. All I am saying is that Moyes didn't know who he wanted. He said Fabregas, then Alcantara, and then Herrera. If you look at United historically, people did not know we brought a player till the deal was done. You can not blame Woodard for overpaying for Fellaini. Moyes knew what he was doing. We over paid by 14M Pounds. Ultimately, since Woodard has his sign for these financial deals, people tend to blame him. I am not saying he was not culpable in the fact that he could not wrap the deal for the price we wanted. He was new to this, and first year was horrendous in that we over paid for every one we brought. But Moyes as the manager should have known better, especially since he was in charge of all the deals at Everton. This year, Southamption were not doing a garage sale to give us Shaw on the cheap. In fact, all the players they sold were far above market value. I think we may have been able to get Shaw a bit cheaper hadn't Moyes made it public that he liked Lallana and Shaw. LVG probably would have gone for Ricardo Rodriguez. If you look at last year's transfer follies of Fabregas, Alcantara, Herrera, and add Coentrao, people didn't want to play for Moyes. Add that to the fact that we finished 7th last season, clubs will not want to sell the players to us atleast for 20-30% mark up on their market values. May be things could have been different had Woodard had Fergie, but shit happens right? Gill has every right to be shocked. But Gill and Fergie were on a different playing field compared to Moyes and Woodard don't you think? I do not blame him completely. But I do not want to get rid of this guy because he gets us these awesome sponsorships. I mean the next best kit sponsorship on the market is about 60% of our value. If you ask me, I think we will over pay for the players next year too. But after that things will be normal. Like what CFC did this year? It takes time and stability for the club. Mourinho knew what he was doing when he brought all those players for 60M pounds...

yeah, I guess you do have a point there.

Actually, ashwin, now that I think about it, I kinda disagree with what you said about Moyes. In my opinion, I think Moyes did know exactly who he wanted to bring into the club, but a manager can only tell us who he wants in the squad, and ultimately it's Woodward that is responsible for bringing in that player into the club, and during Moyes's time, including RIGHT NOW, he's miserably failing to do such matters.

I just read news that we are now focusing on Mehdi Benatia now as a target, I mean what in the world?! First it went from Vermaelen, then to Marcos Rojo, then to someone else completely fresh on the boat. If this is the case, then I guess LVG's the one to blame isn't it? I'm fairly sure that Vaan Gaal knows exactly who he wanted a while ago, and to think that he now targets Benatia is completely off the question - Woodward is failing to make negotiations once again in a time that is most needed. I don't give a flying fk if he made spectacular deals with sponsorships and such, what's the point of having all those money if we can't even bring in the players into the club? Woodward's the one to blame I'd say, and he wouldn't have been in this sticky situation if he had hired a PROPER sporting director into our club during the World Cup. The man's just asking for a tide of hatred.

You are right in the fact that he does a horrible job in closing deals. But you have to remember, that our valuation of the player and the selling clubs valuation differ (30-50%) due to the fact that we are desperate and out of champions league. Unless LVG can get us back in top 4 with the team he has now, which is possible since we do not have UCL, our negotiations will continue to suffer. Even David Gill would have these issues in my opinion. Which is why I say you can not put all the blame on Woodard alone.
If you ask me who the blame should fall on? I'll say Moyes and Fergie. I love Fergie, but he shouldn't have left Moyes with out reinforcements. And Moyes because he lacked the tactical acumen. We could have finished 4th last year. But loosing points to teams in the bottom, and not registering even a single win against Top 8 (except Arsenal). That is not acceptable. I mean out of 42 possible points against top 8, we got 8 I believe, that is absurd. We had a better squad than that. 21 out of 42 points would have given us 3rd I believe. Or even 4th!