Manchester United’s owners, the Glazer family, are reportedly delighted with Ed Woodward despite the club’s tricky start to the new Premier League season.
The Red Devils have endured a mixed start to the new season, beating Chelsea but failing to beat Wolves, Crystal Palace and Southampton.
Woodward is a divisive figure among Manchester United fans, with some believing him to be better at commercial commitments rather than transfer activity.
Yet the Mirror claim the United chief’s stock is now at an all-time high behind the scenes at Old Trafford.
Man Utd chief Ed Woodward has the backing of the Glazers (Image: GETTY)
Man Utd were able to offload Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez (Image: GETTY)
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Additionally, the United’s owners are happy at Woodward holding firm over Paul Pogba.
The France international wanted to join Real Madrid - and the La Liga giants were keen on securing his signature.
But Woodward managed to keep the United star at the club until January at the earliest.
Meanwhile, talkSPORT host Mark Saggers recently hit out at Woodward and the Glazers, accusing them of contributing to the plights of Bolton and Bury.
“They’ve had the chief executive doing all the business and it’s all gone totally wrong, but the owners don’t care because they just use the club as a bank!” he said.
“We look at Bury down the road and there are two Man United players saying ‘it’s terrible, our parents were linked to the club but we can’t help bail them out because we have our own side’.
“And then you look at Salford City, who are at times paying above rates for players.
“They’re all getting skewed by this ridiculous top-end, where Sanchez is on ridiculous amounts of money and United are just throwing money at players they think they want because have they just read the back pages and somebody says they’re brilliant.
“This is all being filtered down and it is blowing up our pyramid. It’s outrageous, it’s absolutely outrageous.”