United’s Worst Decisions of the Last 12 Years

Far more than the managers it’s got to be the recruitment since Mourinho.
At least when Maureen left we could have fetched good prices for Martial, Lukaku & Pogba.
Lukaku didn’t work out but we still received a huge fee. Pogba had a couple of good seasons and once again would’ve commanded a big fee when Mou wanted rid.
There were his BIG signings.

Since then though our big signings have been catastrophic. Sancho, Antony, Mount, Højlund… to spend 320 million on those 4 players only to end up loaning two, never seeing one, and realising the fourth isn’t the player you hoped either is incredible.

Maguire was at least an ever present in a few ok seasons, so whilst we overpaid, I don’t see that as such an issue.

Any club can have a Di Maria, Pogba or a Lukaku, but they are players that even if they don’t work out, have big pedigree and command big fees.

If 3 of those 4 players, averaging 80 million /pop either worked out else commanded 55-60m resale fees, we’d be alright.
 
A crazy stat is that of our biggest ever 15 signings, 10 of them were signed since 2019.

Of those 10, totalling 716 million euros:

• 2 are out on loan
• 1 is constantly injured
• 1 was sold for 17.6m (almost 40m loss)
• 1 (Cas) we’re trying to loan
• 1 has just done his knee for the second time since joining us.
• 2 are still ”young and learnin’” with one looking promising but the other not so much.
• JUST 2 are first team regulars (Bruno, Maguire) of which we tried selling one just a year or so ago.
 
Regulus Arcturus Black said:
A crazy stat is that of our biggest ever 15 signings, 10 of them were signed since 2019.

Of those 10, totalling 716 million euros:

• 2 are out on loan
• 1 is constantly injured
• 1 was sold for 17.6m (almost 40m loss)
• 1 (Cas) we’re trying to loan
• 1 has just done his knee for the second time since joining us.
• 2 are still ”young and learnin’” with one looking promising but the other not so much.
• JUST 2 are first team regulars (Bruno, Maguire) of which we tried selling one just a year or so ago.
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That's not really a crazy stat, it's probably true of most clubs given transfer fee inflation over the years
 
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