They are an international advertising platform with a football team attached. They gave Sanchez nearly £400k per week and as well as getting a massively underperforming player, pissed off their star player of recent seasons who was on about half that. That looks pretty stupid from where I sit.
Ed Woodward may be great negotiating with Nike and Chevrolet, but he is clueless about football. Odds on, this is the one where he will dig his heels and play hardball.
I also happen to think that Hendo and his wonder agent (who got him £50k per week) should be doing more publicly to push this through. He is untried in the PL and despite a good season last year, I'd happily go for an older keeper with more high level experience. If Hendo does well with us he is still Manyoo's player and will go back. If he does badly, we may well go down and nver see him again anyway.