Our worst signings XI

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Lets have a bit of fun, make your lineup of our worst signings.

Here is mine

Taibi
Darmian Wan Bisakka Telles Buttner
Antony DVB Schniederlin Sanchez
Weghorst Bebe​
 
4 fullbacks in defense is cheating. Make some space for Rojo in there at least! :p

Schneiderlin and Donny is a nasty duo!
 
We've had worse signings than Buttner, AWB and Anthony in those positions. Onana should be in over Taibi also. He's basically Taibi if we decided to keep him playing with us for 18 months rather than immediately putting in the bin.
 
Onana
Wan-Bissaka Maguire Bailly/Lindelof Telles
Sancho Pogba Veron Antony
Sanchez Memphis

Considering fee and output from these players, this is easily our worst signing XI.
 
Ronaldo II could be in with a shot up front.

By no means the lowest quality player, but you could definitely make a case in terms of its disruptive impact on the team, as well as how depressingly predictable the whole saga was.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
Onana
Wan-Bissaka Maguire Bailly/Lindelof Telles
Sancho Pogba Veron Antony
Sanchez Memphis

Considering fee and output from these players, this is easily our worst signing XI.
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I'd probably agree with this - would possibly replace Maguire with a worse player simply as I don't think he's been that bad overall and it's more the fee, Lisandro Martinez might sneak in given he only gave you 1 good season before turning to shit although for just over 1/2 the fee.

I'd probably take Depay out and put Donny VBD in as a 4-3-3.

IMO quite clearly Antony and Sancho are 1 & 2 worst signings in history which sums up why United are in the mud at the moment.
 
Considering their cost and salary. No point on having there players who cost feck all, player three times before getting binned and thus did not have much negative long-term effect.

Onana

Wan Bissaka Maguire Rojo/Martinez Telles

Casemiro van der Beek

Antony Mount Sancho

Sanchez

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Onana

Maguire / De Ligt / Yoro

Dalot / Ugarte / Mainoo / Mazraoui

Amad / Zirkzee / Bruno
 
In a 4411

Onana

Dalot - lindalof - rojo - malacia
Sancho - DVB - Casemiro - Di Maria
Mount
Hojlund

That team wouldn’t even gain promotion in the championship.
 
Revan said:
Considering their cost and salary. No point on having there players who cost feck all, player three times before getting binned and thus did not have much negative long-term effect.

Onana

Wan Bissaka Maguire Rojo/Martinez Telles

Casemiro van der Beek

Antony Mount Sancho

Sanchez

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i keep forgetting Mount plays for us.
 
Mainoonited said:
i keep forgetting Mount plays for us.
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For all the crap (deservedly) Sancho and Antony get, Mount has been as a big, if not a bigger disaster. Basically never fit, and in the occasional case he is fit to play, you cannot help but think why is he playing. He is in a category with those two and Sanchez as our worst ever signings, but unlike the others does not get mentioned that much by virtue of people forgetting his existence.
 
Di Maria was pretty disappointing compared to the hype but nowhere near the worst signing on the wing, his standard was quite good when he did play, at the start he was unbelievable and then faded a bit but he was never really bad like Antony or Sanchez. And then he was sold fairly sharpish for good money. We made a loss but he was the 3rd most expensive sale we've ever had. Compare that to other flops leaving for free.
 
Falcao
Sancho - Mount - van de Beek - Antony
Casemiro
Malacia - Maguire - Lindelöf - Wan-Bissaka
Onana​

Sanchez is lucky not to get in based on the relatively low fee (well, the approximate fee of that swap). The fee (an outgoing one as well if possible), salary and expectations play a huge part in my squad assessment — we've had worse keepers than Onana, defenders than Maguire and worse midfielders than Casemiro, at least they've given us some spells of good to great performances. A lot of the big name disappointments came for relatively little fees — take Schweinsteiger, Cristiano mk. 2 etc. Some big money disappointments recouped a lot of their original fee (Lukaku, Di Maria). Amazingly only Verón can potentially qualify from Fergie's time given the above-mentioned criteria but even he wasn't that bad, he still had an abundance of quality if just that he was the wrong fit for our team.
 
We probably have 22 just from the post Fergie signings. The XI:

Onana
AWB Bailly Rojo Shaw (Yes Shawberto)
Schneiderlin
de Beek Mount
Antony Hojlund Sancho

Since we play 3521 now:

Onana
Bailly Lindelof Rojo
Antony Casemiro Schneiderlin Shaw
de Beek Mount
Hojlund
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Honorary mention: Sanchez.
 
harms said:
Falcao
Sancho - Mount - van de Beek - Antony
Casemiro
Malacia - Maguire - Lindelöf - Wan-Bissaka
Onana​

Sanchez is lucky not to get in based on the relatively low fee (well, the approximate fee of that swap). The fee (an outgoing one as well if possible), salary and expectations play a huge part in my squad assessment — we've had worse keepers than Onana, defenders than Maguire and worse midfielders than Casemiro, at least they've given us some spells of good to great performances. A lot of the big name disappointments came for relatively little fees — take Schweinsteiger, Cristiano mk. 2 etc. Some big money disappointments recouped a lot of their original fee (Lukaku, Di Maria). Amazingly only Verón can potentially qualify from Fergie's time given the above-mentioned criteria but even he wasn't that bad, he still had an abundance of quality if just that he was the wrong fit for our team.
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Falcao with a bad knee rushed back after his ACL still scored more league goals than Sanchez did for us. He was supposed to be the player to bring us to the next level (expectations) and was the highest paid player in the league. He ruined our wage structure with that too. Apparently he cost £50m in wages when he was here, so the fact it was a swap deal was included doesn't save it that much financially (Mkhitaryan was not stunning but was much better for us, so we swapped to make the team weaker). There were also multiple reports that his attitude was dreadful and was a toxic player to be around, dragged players down with him.

Personally I think Sanchez is with Antony the worst signing in the history of the club and should be in all of these teams.
 
Taibi

Varela Prunier Buttner

Anthony Powell Djemba-Djemba Milne

VDB Obertan

Bebe


Think most of the previously nominated lineups would stuff this XI
 
Going to take into account fee, wages, impact on & off the pitch and long term effects on the club.

Hojlund
Mount Sanchez
Sancho Van de Beek Casemiro Antony
Rojo Maguire Bailly
Onana​
Transfer fees (542m)
72m
55m ~35m
73m 35m 60m 86m
16m 80m 30m
47m​
Wages (2.2m/week)
85k
250k 350k
350k 120k 350k 200k
110k 190k 80k
120k
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Taking advantage of the 3-4-2-1 to fit in more wingers, mainly because none of the fullbacks we've signed have been too big of a problem. Our problem if anything is not signing enough... Dalot and Shaw were good signings, Wan Bissaka did a solid job for a long time and stayed fit and while he was too much money, he didn't destabilize the club with his cost or wages. Malacia was cheap. Bit harsh on Onana, but to be honest it was between him and Barthez, as the others who were main GK's or who had real expectations in my lifetime were Schmeichel, VDS and De Gea.. No use putting in a backup who costs very little. Tim Howard and Carroll I guess you could make a shout for but never felt like we actually expected much from either.

Maguire is a harsh one, but we spent so much money on him relative to what we got out of it...
 
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KeanoMagicHat said:
Falcao with a bad knee rushed back after his ACL still scored more league goals than Sanchez did for us. He was supposed to be the player to bring us to the next level (expectations) and was the highest paid player in the league. He ruined our wage structure with that too. Apparently he cost £50m in wages when he was here, so the fact it was a swap deal was included doesn't save it that much financially (Mkhitaryan was not stunning but was much better for us, so we swapped to make the team weaker). There were also multiple reports that his attitude was dreadful and was a toxic player to be around, dragged players down with him.

Personally I think Sanchez is with Antony the worst signing in the history of the club and should be in all of these teams.
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Maybe. I didn't want to shoehorn Sanchez up front and Sancho was an overall bigger disappointment for me. Sanchez was a worse transfer than Falcao even though we've spent a huge amount on that loan + wages, of course.
 
Only focusing on post-Fergie purchases.

Onana (40 million)
Wan-Bissaka (50 million)
Maguire (80 million)
Bailly (30 million)
Shaw (30 million)
Casemiro (70 million)
Van De Beek (35 million)
Antony (80 million)
Pogba (90 million)
Sancho (70 million)
Hojlund (65 million)

Total: 640 million (64 million per player)

Some of these players (Shaw, Maguire, Hojlund) aren't necessarily the worst, but they represent significant investment in positions where we spent game-changer money hoping it could be a turning point and set us up for years. I don't mind signings not working out. But we spend massive money, and these players then become unmovable and either have to be paid off to move (Sanchez) or run down their contracts (Pogba). Culturally, a Rashford and, to a lesser extent, Lingard have been possibly as damaging as some of these signings. Overall, being a shite signing is a problem. But being expensive shite doesn't even let us solve those problems.
 
Sanchez - Hojlund - Sancho
Van de Beek - Fellaini - Mount
Rojo -- Maguire -- Phil Jones (could be Smalling, same buzz) -- Antony (yep he can play RB in this, the useless such and such)
Onana

Manager: Ten Haag (thank for the 7-0, Eric...)

Bonus: most dislikeble signings -- 1) Sancho 2) Di Maria 3)Onana

Hon mention in both categories: Zirkzee, he's not in the 11 by virtue of how utterly awful Hojlund is. The Maguire resurgence is totally overblown and i will never forgive, or forget, that performance in the 1-6 loss to Spurs.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
Onana
Wan-Bissaka Maguire Bailly/Lindelof Telles
Sancho Pogba Veron Antony
Sanchez Memphis

Considering fee and output from these players, this is easily our worst signing XI.
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Pogba averaged a goal or assist per 2 games. No one else in that team comes close to him. And had his moments and seasons.
 
Mainoonited said:
Lets have a bit of fun, make your lineup of our worst signings.

Here is mine

Taibi
Darmian Wan Bisakka Telles Buttner
Antony DVB Schniederlin Sanchez
Weghorst Bebe​
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Nailed it :lol:

Alexis Sanchez. My God, the money we paid for him and only 14 goals for United.
 
Blake's 7 said:
Taibi

Varela Prunier Buttner

Anthony Powell Djemba-Djemba Milne

VDB Obertan

Bebe


Think most of the previously nominated lineups would stuff this XI
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I was going on the basis that worst signings accounts for not just talent level but the amount spent and subsequently lost if they've left the club.
 
KiD MoYeS said:
Onana
Wan-Bissaka Maguire Bailly/Lindelof Telles
Sancho Pogba Veron Antony
Sanchez Memphis

Considering fee and output from these players, this is easily our worst signing XI.
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Utter rubbish

Onana 80 apps 20 clean sheets 1 x FA cup
**AWB 190 apps 3 goals 13 assists 1593 mins played 1 x FA cup 1 x EFL Cup
**Maguire 226 apps 12 goals 7 assists 17963 mins played 1 x FA cup 1 x EFL Cup
**Lindelof 268 apps 4 goals 7assists 21773 mins played 1 x FA cup 1 x EFL Cup
Telles 50 apps 1 goals 7assists 3787 mins played
Sancho 83 12 goals 6 assists 5001 mins played
**Pogba 223 apps 39 goals 48 assists 17692 mins played 1 x EFL Cup 1 x Europa League
Veron 82 apps 11 goals 16 assists 6406 mins played 1 x Premeir League title
Antony 86 apps 12 goals 5 assists 5435 mins played 1 x EFL Cup
Sanchez 45 apps 5 goals 9 assists 2781 mins played
Memphis 53 apps 7 goals 4 assists 2604 mins played

In no world do AWB, Maguire, Lindelof (as meek as he is) or Pogba merit a place here. below would replace like for like, far more worthy considering fee, wages in case of Phil jones and OUTPUT…

Phil jones 229 apps 6 goals 8 assists 17389 mins played over 12 YEARS
Rojo 122 2 goals 4 assists 9167 mins played
Darmian 92 apps 1 goal 3 assists 6679 mins played
DVB 62 apps 2 goals 2 assists 2157 mins played (£39 million) 26 starts over 4 season
 
Cost over contract (less sale) vs return on the pitch.
i.e where have we burnt all the money so that we're now skint and with very little value on the pitch:

Onana
Varane (68 league games for the best part of £90m)
Bailly
Telles
Rojo
Casemiro
Mount (*unlucky with injuries)
Pogba (mainly due to losing for nothing)
Van de Beek
Antony
Sancho
Sanchez

Special mentions to:

Ronaldo II
Ighalo (very expensive loan, barely played)
Cavani (big cost for very few games)
Martial (only due to injuries, 2nd contract)
De Gea (£350k+ a week)
Schweinsteiger (didn't we once write off his value when he was still here?)

Other recent signings worth far less than we paid:

Hojlund
Martinez
Malacia

Jury out on the summer signings.

Well over £1bn above with so little return on the pitch.
 
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Offside said:
We've had worse signings than Buttner, AWB and Anthony in those positions. Onana should be in over Taibi also. He's basically Taibi if we decided to keep him playing with us for 18 months rather than immediately putting in the bin.
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Taibi might actually have worked out, or at the very least been a very good backup.
 
Onana

Varane
Lindelof
Telles
Rojo

Casemiro
BFS
Depay
Sancho

Crap Ronaldo
Sanchez


Antony somehow misses out given all the drama and extra expense of Sancho.
 
If you factor in their price/wage/expectations;

Onana
Maguire - Martinez - Rojo
Antony - Donny - Schweinsteiger - Sancho
Mount - Hojlund - Sanchez​
 
AndySmith1990 said:
Onana
Wan bissaka
Maguire
Baily
Donny Van beek
Casemiro
Di Maria
Sancho
Sanchez
Antony
Hojlund
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I like this one but we should swap Mount for Hojlund.

---------------------Onana------------------------

- AWB----Maguire------Bailly--------Antony

----Mount-------Casemiro-------DVB-----

---Di Maria--------Sanchez------Sancho


Question is - can the above team finish above 13th in the premier league?
 
Tallis said:
I like this one but we should swap Mount for Hojlund.

---------------------Onana------------------------

- AWB----Maguire------Bailly--------Antony

----Mount-------Casemiro-------DVB-----

---Di Maria--------Sanchez------Sancho


Question is - can the above team finish above 13th in the premier league?
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Depends who the manager is doesn't it? A competent manager that gets that team playing regularly could finish top 8 and push for the glory of Conference League qualification.
 
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