The Glazers and the extended Manchester United fraternity will hold their breath and wait for the affairs of the club before the month ends when EdWoodward is expected to present the statements.
Many already have a bad picture of how the statements might turn out poor and negative considering the club’s poor record in all the trophies.
Manchester United’s miserable campaign will be addressed later this month when executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward chairs his final conference call of the season.
Woodward is scheduled to hold the club’s third-quarter investors’ call on May 16th, four days after United host Cardiff to bring an end to their Premier League campaign.
United have endured a miserable campaign, suffering a Champions League exit in Barcelona and also look set to miss out on a top-four finish in the Premier League.
The Manchester Evening News claim that Woodward, who is under pressure after a string of underwhelming signings, recently held recruitment meetings with manager Ole Gunnar Solksjaer and assistant Mike Phelan.
The Old Trafford giants are going through a background restructuring process, with Woodward looking to bring in a technical director having named Solskjaer as permanent manager.
It is understood that United have decided on the title of the technical director rather than a director of football or sporting director, with a number of individuals sounded out over recent months as the club look for the right fit.
Woodward was asked about the technical director post during the last call in February, and although his conference calls are usually to discuss non-football related matters, he did indeed shed some light on the situation.
“With regards to the director of football, lots has been written about this,” Woodward said, as claimed by the MEN. “I would say that looking at our structures and looking at how we should strengthen, all areas of the club is something we’re doing on a continual basis.
“We’ve done a lot of changes within the football side in the last four or five years, in particular around the academy, where we’ve materially increased investment and we’re seeing the quality of that now coming on.
“On the football side, we’ve invested around the recruitment side, the player care side, continued investment with facilities, medical and sports science, so the evolution is continuing.
“It’s not necessarily that visible to the outside and, in some respects, you get a multi-year return later on [rather] than an immediate impact. But in regards to the overall structure, we are looking at that (the head of football role) and ways we can make it stronger and it is something we’ll do on a continual basis.”
Rio Ferdinand, meanwhile, recently remained tight-lipped amid talk of a surprise return to Manchester United as sporting director.
Woodward is understood to have spoken to ex-United defender Ferdinand as he looks to fill the role, but the exact intricacies of such conversations are unclear.
The former centre-back was seen speaking to former United team-mate and current Ajax chief executive Edwin Van Der Sar another man linked to the Old Trafford post on Tuesday and was asked on BT Sport if he was getting tips following Tuesday’s reports.
“The game today is more important than talking about that,” Ferdinand said ahead of the Champions League semi-final first leg between Tottenham and Ajax.
“He’s a lovely fella (Van Der Sar). He’s doing a fantastic job there. He was just telling me the ins and outs of what he actually gets up to there.
“It’s very demanding but very satisfying when you’re playing at a level like this at this stage in the tournament.”