Our 4 best transfers post Fergie and what we can learn from them

[Jeppers7]

I miss Ander Herrea. The sort of player who embraced the shithouse side of the game we always had at this club in the past.

Until he let Mark Noble carry him off the pitch

 

[fps]

I remember we signed Mata and I was chatting with an Everton fan soon after.

He said, without question, there is no way would Mata fit into what Moyes will manage on a team.

United, as far as i am concerned, didnt buy Moyes players he wanted, they bought players they could get.

This has happened so often to every single manager United has had. I am sick of hearing people say "ETH/OLE/JOSE/LVG/MOYES" signings. They were players signed while these managers were in charge, but that does not mean that they were priority targets or even targets, there are so many examples of signings where United signed players looking to leave their clubs. Remarkable how often we took these players and they inevitably didnt work out.

He was absolutely not right for a Moyes style team, and he absolutely was a panic buy.

 

[JimiboyX]

There is no magic formula. We just need a backroom team that does its homework more and actually thinks about signings in the context of the current squad. Some of them still won't land, but as long as enough of them do that the failures aren't catastrophic to the team's chances and don't end up staying at the club for their entire careers by accident, that's the main thing.

I would argue that the only convincingly "good" signings we have made in the last decade are Shaw (easily the best - the fact that anyone is going in on him here is frankly ludicrous), Bruno, Zlatan, Herrera, Blind and (perhaps more arguably) Mata. Jury still out on Martinez, Garnacho and a few others (Garnacho could probably already be considered a successful signings at a club you could trust to flip someone if they need to rather than extending 5 times on unnecessarily huge salaries).

Everyone else has been somewhere between about passable on balance and absolutely dreadful.