Tbf, the fans are just as much to blame. The new wave of fans don't understand. They just see others succeeding and so they think splashing the cash is the answer. Woodward was definitely a failure and only bothered about the dollar signs and not the results. It's why we signed the likes of Pogba, Sanchez, Lukaku, Di Maria, Ibrahimovic. These were all name players who didn't fit out system or were to meant to help us, but they were names and so they would sell shirts or boost the social content. We also had the Rashford, Lingard, Sancho esque who would get the social clicks and the board loved that.
Then we went down the path of offering ridiculous money to players. Rashford should not be on the contract he is on. Then we had the Ole era where basically Ole could get us relegated and still everyone would find an excuse for how it was not his fault. To this day, many still think Ole was the best post Fergie and is the best option. Just had a discussion with someone who said that Ole never agreed to Ronaldo. I showed them the clip from his interview on The Overlap where he said he did, and their response was, "you have to read between the lines, you really think he would say no".
Our club is filled with overpaid overhyped players, and whenever we try to bring them into line, they throw a hissy fit and get the manager sacked. Fergie has his own blame in this being responsible for the Glazers coming in, but, we are one massive shit show. I'd start by getting rid of quite a few players, including the likes of Bruno and Rashford.