MANCHESTER UNITED legend Patrice Evra has hit out at Ed Woodward for sending the wrong people to conduct the club’s transfer business.
Aside from the initial £35m for Ajax midfielder Donny van de Beek, the Red Devils have been quiet in the transfer market.
Patrice Evra has claimed Manchester United send the wrong people to do conduct the club’s transfer businessCredit: Sky Sports
The Red Devils legend admitted executive-vice chairman Ed Woodward is ‘too trusting’Credit: EPA
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been frustrated in his pursuit of Borussia Dortmund star Jadon Sancho so far.
While United were also snubbed in their bids to sign Thiago Alcantara, Nathan Ake, and Gabriel Magalhaes who all chose their Premier League rivals over a potential Old Trafford switch.
And former left-back Evra claimed the Red Devils’ executive-vice chairman Woodward has been too trusting of the wrong people to get deals done.
He said: “The only problem I would say to Ed Woodward is that he trusts in people and he should never trust them.
“He even trusts some people outside the club, that’s what I can say about that.
“People like Richard Arnold are why we’ve got money, these guys can make some sponsorship deal like you can’t imagine, so we’ve got the money, but we’ve not got the players because we send the wrong people to speak with them.
We send lawyers to talk with players and when you send a lawyer they talk about numbers, they’re not people from the football world
Patrice Evra
“Ole is trying to change that, he’s trying to speak to the player like Ferguson used to.”
Evra, who recently admitted he was disappointed by United’s transfer activity, wants his old team to make more effort to land top targets.
He added: “Every year it’s deja vu, we make so much impact on social media but the reality is [nothing].
“Fans have to understand it’s not that you buy five, six, seven players the team will improve, but at least your main target, that’s what we’re not doing anymore,” he said.
“Under Fergie and David Gill we didn’t have anything in the paper but bam-bam-bam-bam, Van Persie, Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand, everything was fast, they go and talk face to face.
“But now it’s Matt Judge, we send lawyers to talk with players and when you send a lawyer they talk about numbers, they’re not people from the football world.”
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
