COMMENT: Ed Woodward. He's getting hit from all angles.
Yesterday, it was Pedro, admitting he chose Chelsea as "things weren't progressing with" Manchester United.
Then last night, it was Florentino Perez, the Real Madrid president, on local radio claiming the David de Gea transfer collapsed due to the "inexperience" of the dealmakers on United's side. In other words, executive vice-chairman Woodward.
And that was only from Spain. There's also all the piling on in England after United's calamitous deadline day.
But was United's transfer window really as disastrous as claimed? Is Woodward really so out of his depth?
After all, there were no complaints when Bastian Schweinsteiger and Morgan Schneiderlin arrived in a rush at the opening bell. They followed Memphis Depay, who Woodward nicked away from PSG - with the Dutchman actually in Paris for negotiations.
And take a step back from the fall-out of Monday's on-off De Gea fiasco. Who's finished on top? United still have their reigning Player of the Year for the past two seasons. And Real? Well, an apologetic Florentino spent two hours with Keylor Navas at the Valdebebas training centre on Tuesday. The president asked for forgiveness after attempting to include him in the De Gea deal. The upshot being, Navas won't sulk - but it'll cost Real, with a pay-hike the immediate demand.
Yes, at United's end De Gea isn't exactly jumping for joy. But is Woodward to blame?
After all, it wasn't he who dropped De Gea from preseason. Nor was it Woodward who publicly questioned the Spaniard's professionalism.
This is a mess created by Louis van Gaal.
Woodward has managed to keep United's best performing player for the past two years on the books. And re-introducing him to the first team - perhaps even for the blockbuster with Liverpool - would've been far easier if not for Van Gaal's dismal man-management.
The problem is... the relationship between the pair has always been tense. Tribalfootball.com has learned from the very first day Van Gaal walked into Old Trafford, he was gunning for De Gea. He didn't rate him and demanded De Gea be sold and replaced by Navas, who was still with Levante at the time. It was actually Woodward who stalled Van Gaal, so giving De Gea enough time to convince his new manager. But word of Van Gaal's preference for Navas did reach the Spaniard, who has never forgotten.
When it comes to the manager and blow-ups, De Gea is no Robinson Crusoe. Victor Valdes is still on the books - and still training at Carrington.
Woodward followed Van Gaal's instruction to the letter last season. Despite the former Barcelona keeper's fitness doubts, a three-year contract was offered - and signed - making Valdes among the highest paid shot-stoppers in the game.
Like De Gea, it wasn't Woodward who dumped Valdes in preseason and then publicly attacked his professionalism.
Vicente del Bosque, the Spain coach, is baffled (he's not the only one), and admits he considered including Valdes in his squad this week - even though at United, the World Cup winner doesn't have a shirt number.
This past summer also saw Angel di Maria, a world-beater, a Champions League winner, kicked out the back door of Old Trafford, with his reputation in shreds. Radamel Falcao, now of Chelsea, fared even worse.
Regarding the Colombian, it's claimed Woodward delivered Van Gaal a dud. But how much did the manager's approach contribute to Falcao's failings last season? We know he arrived short of fitness. We know he had fought back from a serious knee injury. And we also know no-one at United ever questioned Falcao's approach to training. Indeed, his work was likened to Cristiano Ronaldo by the longer serving members of staff.
Yet, where Falcao needed an arm around the shoulder and a guarantee of an extended first team run, he copped the exact opposite from Van Gaal. The situation hit rock bottom when we learned he was in tears on the phone to an old mentor after being ordered to play for the U21s in front of an empty Old Trafford.
Di Maria has now escaped to PSG. His character slaughtered by many pundits in England. But again, why is it that Carlo Ancelotti fought so hard to keep Di Maria at Real last summer? And why was he so bitter over the Argentine's sale? Yet, after a year under Van Gaal, the fallout from Di Maria's next move couldn't be more different. United were literally pushing him towards Paris.
Florentino's comments last night were opportunistic - and nasty. With Woodward being hammered in England, he knew exactly what he was doing with his claims of "inexperience". A nice piece of deflection from the Real president, whose team have already surrendered ground to Barcelona and are now without the goalkeeper everyone was expecting to arrive.
At United, there's a common thread here. On paper, Di Maria, Falcao, keeping hold of De Gea, adding Depay, Schneiderlin and Schweinsteiger - plus Anthony Martial - appears great work by a top level dealmaker - Donald Trump would be proud.
But that's all Woodward can do. His job isn't to man-manage players. His expertise doesn't extend to knowing who needs the stick and who needs the carrot. That's the job of the manager.
And if Woodward has to wear the brunt of the fallout created by Van Gaal's management style, he can't say he wasn't warned.
“When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality," said Ronald Koeman, the Southampton manager, last season, "but you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.
“When you have Van Gaal in charge, it is a fact that there is fear in his team. The players have a fear for mister Van Gaal. That is not always good."