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Statman Dave

@StatmanDave

James Garner vs. Huddersfield: 100% ground duels won (5/5)

100% tackles won (4/4)

100% dribbles completed

88% pass accuracy

61 total touches

5 ball recoveries

3/4 long passes completed

3 chances created

1 big C created led to an assist

Played a key role in the win and promotion.
 
James Ducker
@TelegraphDucker

•Rooting out "survivor culture"

• Consultants Korn Ferry enlisted as CEO Arnold sends "hurricane" through club

•Murtough focus narrows with deputy football director & head of women's football due in

•Recruitment changes to continue
 
It is understood that internationally renowned organisational consulting giants, Korn Ferry, have been enlisted to lead an aggressive headhunting process at #mufc designed to identify and recruit "best in class" talent #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]

As part of the review Korn Ferry have been enlisted to lead, existing employees at #mufc are finding themselves subjected to thorough interviews by their specialist consultants as they seek to establish where new skills and change are needed. [@TelegraphDucker]


John Murtough has been in the #mufc dressing room to challenge the players over "unacceptable" standards when others would not this season #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]

Source close to John Murtough: "He doesn’t want to be sat there in a few years thinking about the things he should have done and didn’t." #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]

The arrival of a deputy football director at #mufc is expected to free up around two-thirds of John Murtough’s week and allow him to narrow his focus on the first-team and recruitment #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]

Sources say far more checks and balances have been done by #mufc in the past 12 months than previously, and claim the club have walked away from at least four targets in that period after deeper research on their background raised red flags #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]

Richard Arnold was thought to be reticent at first about the chief executive role but is now said to be hellbent on ensuring that #mufc, first and foremost, have a 'best in class' culture across the club and wants dynamic department heads who feel empowered. [@TelegraphDucker]

Although John Murtough was appointed football director 15 months ago, and led the search for Erik ten Hag, his power base only truly began to widen once Woodward exited in January and Arnold gave him autonomy over football operations. [@TelegraphDucker]

Anticipated appointment of a head of women’s football will further lighten his load. #mufc conducted interviews with around six candidates and are prepared to recruit from other sports ahead of what they expect to be a more rapid growth in the women’s game. [@TelegraphDucker]

#mufc feel the appointment of Dominic Jordan as director of data science last October will help modernise their approach to recruitment. Murtough is looking at making additions to the recruitment team and has made it an area of sharp focus. [@TelegraphDucker]

Around £15m is being spent this summer installing new pitches and freshening up the facilities at Carrington, including the pool area and gym, following work on a new restaurant, dining area and improved catering facilities #mulive [@TelegraphDucker]
 
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Why Manchester United’s transfer policy has failed so badly since Sir Alex Ferguson left:


That seems like a hit piece, placing most of the blame on the managers having too much control. Club was almost publicly flirting with Mourinho while LVG was on the job and with Pochettino while Ole was on the job, and I'm supposed to believe managers had too much trust put into them. What about Jose never playing Mkhitarian, Donny never touching grass under Ole, or am I supposed to believe Falcao with no legs was Van Gaal's first choice? Give me a break.

The truth is Woodward is a donkey who wasn't able to lock any of the top targets and people had to go for choice D. That and constantly swapping between managers with wildly different tactical ideas who then have to start the reign with full clear out.

Fergie's transfer philosophy was hardly some super complicated voodoo magic: sign the best local players if you can and look for deals abroad, that's about it.
 
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Fergie's transfer philosophy was hardly some super complicated voodoo magic: sign the best local players if you can and look for deals abroad, that's about it.
That plus everything was siloed through fergie so the strategy was pulling towards that one direction.

In hindsight, he really should’ve setup a more modern football structure knowing him leaving would leave this huge void.
 
All this talk of good scouting and not one link with Enzo Fernandez from river plate. Brilliant DM with a freaking £18 million release clause
 
All #mufc's senior scouts report to Steve Brown. Both him and Erik ten Hag will now feed into football director John Murtough, and there will no longer be any involvement at executive level until potential deals reach closing stages #mujournal [@sistoney67]
 

Andy O’Boyle has spent the last five years as Head of Elite Performance for the Premier League, responsible for advising clubs on talent identification and recruitment, performance analysis, sports science and medicine, psychology and loan management. [@TelegraphDucker]

Andy O’Boyle’s arrival will free up around two-thirds of Murtough’s week by removing much of the day-to-day bureaucracy that at present comes across his desk and enable him to narrow his focus on the first team and the critical issue of recruitment. [@TelegraphDucker]

Andy O'Boyle is due to complete his Uefa pro coaching licence this summer and is also working towards a doctorate having already achieved a masters in sports science. Murtough wanted a multifaceted candidate comfortable working across a variety of areas. [@TelegraphDucker]
 
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Just catching up-

Something to lighten @Scouseinthehouse mood.



Shocking surprise that. 🙄

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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We should run a book on how long ten Hag lasts before the realisation that the club will be forever F under Glazer rule hits home.
 
That with the same hillarity you argued for the half arsed, amateur shitshow with Ragnick against me mate?

That is United under them in a microcosm. And until they are gone, your football club will remain mired in the mud.

I'll start the book on him leaving within 2 seasons. And the cycle starting again.
 
Wonder at what point it will be tears
Scouse still needs years of experience in comedy before that.

Jokes aside, as always no faith in the club until we see changes, not the stories of changes. If that makes sense.
 
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