Ed Woodward must be the only man running a Premier League football club who gets stick for making them money.
Woodward, the executive vice-chairman of Manchester United, is regularly tagged as a bloke who cares more about signing sponsorship deals with tyre companies in the Far East than he does about winning football.
It’s a daft accusation that looks nice in headlines but makes no sense. At the top end of the Premier League, winning and earning go hand in hand. They fuel each other.
The modern Manchester United have a commercial operation that every other English club would like to have and Woodward and his managing director Richard Arnold are largely responsible.