Ex-Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has blasted former boss Ed Woodard, the man who has been in charge of the day-to-day running of the club since 2013, by claiming that the Old Trafford executive vice-chairman has 'zero understanding of football'.
Despite a healthy off-field performance in terms of revenue and profit, United have badly struggled on the struggled on the pitch and in the transfer market in recent years and Woodward has been under increasing scrutiny from a growing number of fans irate over the club's slump.
Van Gaal's words to German magazine 11 Freunde, in which he directly compared United to the structure at Bayern Munich, where he also worked, have now done little to ease the fears over Woodward's ability to continue running the football operations.