Louis van Gaal blames Paul Scholes for negative atmosphere

Woodward took part in a conference call with investors at 1pm after the club’s first-quarterly financial results were announced.

United’s performance both on and off the pitch will come under the spotlight when executive vice-chairman Woodward faces some awkward questions.

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And United’s chances of playing in the lucrative continental tournament next season is still uncertain, with the club six points adrift of fourth-placed Manchester City in the league.

And one of the big topics will be the future of Van Gaal.

“I have to confess something: Pep was here in Doha, during the Bundesliga’s winter break with Bayern, and he told me that he was going to the Premier League, to Manchester City”, the Al Sadd midfielder told Mundo Deportivo. His coaching capacity, his reading of the game, are excellent and he can say the right things to my players.

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“It may be that the market – and indeed the majority owner Glazer family – are only gradually coming to this realisation”.

However, a bad result will heap more pressure on Van Gaal, with reports that Mourinho has already agreed a three-year deal, and Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino also earmarked as a possible successor.

The good news is that the former J.P. Morgan investment banker’s ability to secure lucrative sponsorship partnerships for the club shows no sign of diminishing.

Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters now expect the club’s full-year revenue figure to be at the lower end of its own expectations with a mean average of £501.5m forecast – down from estimates of £525m a year ago.

“They are more or less in that place now because they want to continue with this lead”.