The Old Trafford faithful certainly hold a lot of legends dear to their heart – King Eric, Fergie, Giggs; the list goes on. But as terraces give way to message boards, a new name has become the toast of the town amongst Manchester United fans- a man who epitomises the way the club is run from the top down, Ed Woodward.
Though Woodward, who became United’s CEO when David Gill retired alongside Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013, is drawing plaudits due to his recent captures of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin, his impact at the club has been tremendous and far reaching since his association with it began in 2005.
Joining initially as a FINANCIAL
Whereas most clubs need to keep a constant influx of big name players and trophies to keep foreign MARKETS
Woodward’s success in directing United’s commercial dealings can best be shown through the raw numbers. The club’s revenue increased threefold since his joining, and is a close second to Real Madrid. They have the biggest commercial revenue stream in world football, totalling over $1.1 billion a year, and are the only club currently with an “Official Global Noodle Partner”, a deal which has Woodward written all over it.
Though it must be said that such a role in the club is never going to get as much idolisation amongst fans as an all time top goal scorer, Woodward’s importance to United’s past on field success and any hope of a return to winning ways cannot be underestimated. While it is clearly true that commercial revenue FUND
Whereas any other elite premier club would have taken a huge financial
Significantly, they managed to do this without incurring an overall loss in that FINANCIAL
But, perhaps unsurprisingly, there has been little fanfare (until very recently at least) for the man who has guaranteed United sustained competitiveness for the foreseeable future. In fact, during his first few months as CEO, a position which is responsible for orchestrating United’s transfer dealings, he was ridiculed by football fans across the world, including supporters of the club whom he helped make a global superpower.
Though admittedly Woodward’s inexperience in transfer dealings was brutally exposed in the summer of 2013, as he was repeatedly snubbed by Barcelona for Cesc Fabregas, missed out on a widely reported release clause that would have lowered Marouane Fellaini’s transfer and was bizarrely swindled out of a deal for Ander Herrera by an “unauthorised third party”, the backlash he faced by the media over this completely overlooked his previous contributions to the club.
Indeed, in a new front-end role at the club, Woodward was somewhat of an easy target. Alongside David Moyes, he was replacing one of the most formidable chief executive/manager partnerships in the business world in David Gill and Sir Alex Ferguson. That alone always made it somewhat of a poisoned chalice.
It was also Woodward’s first time in such a role, and although the switch from Head of FINANCE
But like all club icons, Woodward has overcome adversity to turn it around. The man who was duped by an Athletic Bilbao impostor less than two years ago is now taking on Florentino Perez over David De Gea, and seemingly winning. He has also finally seemed to loosen the Glazer’s purse strings after a decade of relative austerity, and if such FINANCIAL
Eric Cantona will always be known as ‘The King’, but on current form, it may not be long before the Old Trafford faithful are referring to Ed Woodward as ‘The boss’.
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