![]() They might argue that finishing sixth meant Van Gaal had to be axed. His reward? To be sacked by Woodward/Glazer the day after. Photograph: Jason Redmond/Reutersīut the Dutchman did claim the 2016 FA Cup – the first trophy since Ferguson left. Louis van Gaal with three new signings in 2015: Morgan Schneiderlin (left), Bastian Schweinsteiger and Matteo Darmian. As with Morgan Schneiderlin, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Marcos Rojo and other Van Gaal recruits, Di María did not work out. Where, for example, was the due diligence on Ángel Di María that might have illuminated the player’s reservations before a then British record £59.3m was splurged? After signing he penned an open letter to Real Madrid fans outlining how he never wished to leave. With no checks and balances, Van Gaal, Moyes’s successor, was allowed a transfer strategy more akin to a crapshoot than a coherent approach. When Woodward and Glazer sacked him in April 2014, 34 league matches into a six-year deal, a slide had begun that continues eight years on. ![]() If United were bound to be Ferguson-centric after his 26-and-a-half-year reign, Moyes did not possess the vision for empire reconstruction. The post-Ferguson era has been a catalogue of sorry mismanagement, the chief culprits being Ed Woodward, the former executive vice-chairman, and the co-owner Joel Glazer for failing four times to hire the right No 1 and overseeing a dysfunctional transfer policy yet to be corrected. Sir Alex Ferguson lifts the Premier League trophy in 2013.
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