Woodward is so full of it, his **** has ****.
Moyes and Van Gaal were both promised high profile signings, only for Woodward to miss every major target, ending up with prospects, hasbeens, and people who simply wanted out anyway.
Di Maria Falcao, Schweinsteiger are high profile signings. Also there was nothing wrong with the players signed. Van Gaal just Van Gaaled then. Schneiderlin was one of the best CM in the league but Van Gaal made him look like pub player with his pathetic tactics. Woodward talked big and spent big, he cant do much if manager don't know how to use the players he wanted.
Also made record breaking bids for Bale amd nuller, can't blame them if they didn't want to play for Moyes and LVG.
Gill was never given 250 million to spend. Do you think Robben or Silva would prefer going to (at the time) upstart clubs, over United, if money was good enough?
Man Utd always had money. Gill didn't spend and SAF always said no value in the market. SAF said many times even after retirement how Glazers never said no for funds.
Silva was missed because we didn't act fast when he was for sale. We made bids year before and Valencia said he won't leave that year.
Robben we had fee agreed but Chelsea or of nowhere just completed the deal. Those 2 signings were missed not because of money.
I think the difference was that he did not go around boasting about how he could break the world transfer record and helmed the biggest club in the world as well as pathetically leaking to the press that he is leaving a pre-season tour for 'important transfer business'. Also he leaked a proposed swap deal from Chelsea once where we offered Luiz/Mata for Rooney ...
People have no idea about Gill at all. Every transfer window Gill used to talk about transfer war chest but never spent.You should check ManUtd forums to see how fans used to make fun of invisible war chest.Gill always talked big but SAF didn't spend when needed. City owner talk about money, PSG owner did, Perez did, Gill did but you have problem when Woodard did. Obvious though. Woodward talked big and spent big. Not sure what the problem is.