Btw who says this ashworth guy is any good? Looking at newcastles business last summer, they might have missed on every signing.

Ashworth’ specialty isn’t necessarily recruitment and United want someone else to do recruitment.

He is coming to United as the general Football Director. What he does best is create and keep a competitive footballing culture at a club. Think of the “England DNA” program he developed for the English youth teams. You need someone to have a vision for the whole club like that. To make it gel and to create a winning culture of top, top performers. Not an environment where say, a Rashford can drop his shoulders and drag his feet on the field any longer.

“Beyond transfers, Ashworth is well regarded for his ability to pull all departments of a club together and make sure they are moving in the same direction.”

This isn’t John Murthough

I have no idea who they signed last summer tbh. They did some great business the years before tho

On Ashworth discussions: It’s one of those areas of football that really irks me — both ways — when fans pretend that they have the faintest idea of what football directors do on a day to day basis.

We (as in us fans) have no real idea other than the fact he’s extremely coveted and well respected within the profession.

I’m sure he has appropriate credentials, otherwise we wouldn’t be pressing so hard for him and nor would Newcastle be attempting to hold us to ransom for his appointment.

But when fans go OTT about how amazing a sporting director would be (or vice versa) — they’re just chatting out of their ass and have no idea either way.

Would be ideal

Let’s fake out Liverpool and make them go for Southgate and the England coaching staff like Pep used to do with our transfer targets.

I agree on the day-to-day micro level, we have no clue

But you can infer a general sense of what they bring from their previous jobs, projects and interviews

Chong

this is like their only winnable game out of their next 10

top 5 here we come

Chong doing it for United

Spurs gonna lose to Luton and then beat City and draw Pool

1-1

dangit 2-1

Watching this on holiday but why do our socials and the bbc not have the lineups already? I swear they’re usually up an hour before the game?

Also f*** Wolves for not showing up for this Villa game

Kick off is at 8pm mate expecting line ups in 5 min

No one showed for us today

Chances get slimmer as the weeks go on

Mate, 10 games left, 9/6 behind Spurs, 12/9 behind Villa depending on tonight’s result. If Spurs weren’t supreme bottlers I’d say it’s out of sight.

If they both dropped points today it’d be a lot more interesting.

Mainoo/McTominay midfield is kinda wild imo, especially when they’ve got 5 in midfield and are clearly packing it out.

Licha back

Bench looking strong for once

In Sir Kobbie Mainoo we trust

Looking like a scrappy one

Varane's all over the place today

Sometimes I wonder if these lot actually want to win ngl