Which of the three is the worst signing ?

This is a debate between Sancho and Maguire for me but Sancho is the worst one.

VDB didn't play much, didn't do much, but didn't cost too much from what I can remember.

With Maguire, at least he had one or two seasons where he looked decent even if it was fugazi to some. He ultimately ended up getting exposed that he is not a player cut out for Manchester United and then that price tag looked a lot more ludicrous.

Sancho was expensive and made no real impact, didn't even have a strong purple patch or a consistent run of good performances. Can only recall a handful of goals he's scored for us too. Plus add the drama that has come with him, I think it's a no brainer. Cheers for that moment against Pool though, that was the goal that kickstarted our season.
 
Sancho just because of transfer fee and wages and getting sod all back in return. At least Maguire had a good season. Donny was half the fee the other 2 were , this is his only saving grace
 
Sancho… only memorable moment was his goal against City but we ended up getting smashed in the game so mattered for nothing.
 
Sancho then vdb then Maguire. Sancho was big fee big wages and did nothing. Vdb medium fee medium wages didn't play. Maguire big fee medium wages and was important for a couple of years
 
Robertd0803 said:
I can only remember a goal away vs Leicester and thats it besides that. I have no recollection of him scoring vs City for some reason.

*edit* yeah he scored in a 4-1 defeat no wonder I had it blurred out of memory.
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Ye I think it’s safe to say the game against Liverpool was probably his best for us.
 
I'm not sure VdB is fair to add for the sake of this discussion. Between have a long injury and simply not being played much he doesn't quite deserve the same level of scrutiny as the other two. I can't imagine he was ever thought of as a starter. Imho of course.
 
Maguire had a strong first season, a dodgy month post battering that bloke abroad, and then a fairly decent 2nd season.
It was season 3 that dropped beyond any season of a top half premier league player in memory, probably since Evans last season here.

Sancho has at least had moments, scored some goals, a few assists.

But DVB, I defy anyone to have any positive memory of an appearance by him in his 2 or 3 years now. An absolutely bizarre signing, in the position of our best player.
Presumably a desperation signing thinking Pogba was off that season.
 
Sancho. Nothing excuses lack of trying, lack of effort, lack of running, tracking back. Nothing excuses going against your manager so publicly when you yourself have done feck all.

maguire and donny don’t have a bad attitude, they try. They are respectful. That’s the difference for me.
 
I have a penchant for hyperbole but I fail to see a worse signing than van de Beek in any league in the past 5 years, just completely and utterly useless in every sense of the word. His only memorable contribution was when he dummied it and it lead to a goal, rather fitting his best moment for us was when he didn't even touch the ball.
 
Sancho is the worst by far. Huge cost, huge wages, huge expectation, been crap, fell out with the manager.

VDB is the second worst because he's just been anonymous. He's done absolutely nothing.

Jacob shouldn't be in the conversation with those two. He's been a far better signing. He's been crap for large periods of time but he did have some good periods here and there, and he's always been fit and available which is useful when most of our defense has been a revolving door of injuries.
 
Donny was never brought in as a starter, let alone marquee signing, and didn't cost that much. He shouldn't even be in this conversation.

The better question is who between Sancho, Maguire and Antony has been the biggest flop?

Sancho edges it for me, and that's coming from someone who was on the hype train the previous season when would have paid more for him but would have come at a time when squad was playing some decent football. When Sancho did come Ole had driven us into a ditch and everything was falling apart. We still haven't fully recovered from that season.

Antony has been unbelievably poor, though not quite as bad as Sancho. I look at the old YouTube videos and still wonder where all the hype was coming from. But we did spend a fortune on this guy who has had two, maybe three, moments where you'd say ok there's a proper footballer there somewhere.

Maguire's story is well known. For me he started brilliantly, almost world class at times, but it fell apart and he's been an ongoing horror show since midway through his second season. But he did have that first season when he played like a proper Manchester United footballer.
 
We have one of the worst CBs we've ever had and he's the most expensive defender in the history of the world. And it's probably not the worst out of the 3. So yeah 3 pitiful signings and couldn't argue against any of them.
 
Sancho was the worst value, but I think we'll get £30m+ from West Ham/Villa/Everton/Newcastle or similar next summer. Our last chance to get a fee for Maguire was this summer, but the club didn't want to pay him off, which already looks like an expensive mistake.
 
fps said:
Sancho. We needed a top quality right winger for a decade. We bought him.
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What's worse is he is a far superior left winger and has never really shone on the right, united recruitment being united recruitment we bought him to fill the right wing position.
With such well thought out recruitment I just can't comprehend how we have the highest net spend over a decade in football history and are still struggling.
 
Rood said:
Sancho on value at least Maguire had 1 decent season

VdB for impact since he's done absolutely feck all
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I would say two decent seasons. Maguire easily the best signing out of those three.
 
Infra-red said:
Sancho was the worst value, but I think we'll get £30m+ from West Ham/Villa/Everton/Newcastle or similar next summer. Our last chance to get a fee for Maguire was this summer, but the club didn't want to pay him off, which already looks like an expensive mistake.
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maybe maybe not, we probably would have been a bit short at Centre back without him, (especially with Varane and Lindloff's injury record). And we clearly didn't have any money to replace him, So paying him to leave just didn't make squad depth sense.
 
Maguire by far. He would be bad if he had cost 30-40mil. He’s the most expensive defender in the world!
 
Maguire at least had 1 good season during the lockdown
VdB is a ghost but he wasn't bought with the idea of changing our game
Sancho is by far the biggest disappointment. Cost more than VdB and was signed with the idea of being our starting right winger. The guy can't be arsed to train/run/come on time.
 
Maguire doesn’t belong in this thread, he was a great signing - over priced but a very good player when he joined.

I think Donny is marginally a worse signing than Sancho because he was never wanted here, he was just a cut price attacker.
Sancho has never done it here or looked confident that he could do it. Really strange how it’s turned out.
 
davidmichael said:
No long post and a simple question so who is the worst signing of the three between Sancho, Maguire and VdB ? For the money spent, the impact (or lack of) on the pitch, wages etc.

I don’t know how to add a poll so if that can be added or shown how that’d be great.
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If money wasn't a factor, I'd say VDB. Team didn't need him, totally wrong profile.
Otherwise it's Sancho, just for the fact that he's current highest earner at the club and can't even turn up on time for training.
For Maguire, it's just sad. He's cursed with United.
 
Torn between Sancho and Maguire. Both came with a big price tag and huge expectations. But given that Sancho still has time to put things right and Maguire is not in the plans of the club going forward, I'm going to have to go for Mason Mount on this one.
 
Red Star One said:
Correct answer

bigger bomb Sancho or Pogba? Looks like Sancho as Pogba at least gave us more than a couple of games
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Cant even compare them. During the 19/20 season midfielder Pogba played 46 games and scored 16 goals and had 11 assist in all competitions. Attacker/Winger Sancho doesnt even reach those numbers during his whole Manchester United career.

Pogba was a really good player in a shit team until injuries ruined him.
 
Harry Maguire. Terrible defender. The guy can't defend. And Untied paid £80m for him.
 
Sancho the worst. We spent too long chasing him. Spent too much signing him. And now we're too many years behind waiting for him to come good.
 
I agree that Sancho was the worst of the three.

The way things go, we may need to add Antony to that list, and he was even more expensive than Sancho...
 
Sancho has the biggest gap between expectations and delivery. How bad of a signing he will prove to be will be decided by how much of a fee we get for him.

Right now he’s the worst of the three, but if we somehow flogged him to SA for 65m, then you’d say a very small amount lost, a let down but no real damage. If we get peanuts for him it becomes infinitely worse.

Maguire was way over priced and what we paid for him was madness personified; but he did okay for a couple of seasons. If he’d cost 30m, we’d talk about him very differently. VdB was signed as a squad player, he’s been terrible but if we get 10-15m for him eventually, it’ll just be one of those that didn’t work out.

Sancho was a marquee signing though, one for the present and an even bigger one for the future. He’s been really really poor since day one. Had quite literally a handful of decent games.
 
Sancho.

VDB is the worst player by a mile but wasn’t for big money. Maguire has had periods of being very good for us - people forget his first season for some reason.
 
Isn’t Sancho on ridiculous wages too? Like 300k or something? Seems in our persuit for him we didn’t really value ourselves as a football club. No signing should be ‘at any cost’ - in hindsight of course
 
garelo said:
Alexis Sanchez.
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He was free, even at 400k / week it only cost us around 12M

Sancho for 250k/week + 80M signing and not even a bunch of good games, he's not even trying.

amolbhatia50k said:
Sancho.

VDB is the worst player by a mile but wasn’t for big money. Maguire has had periods of being very good for us - people forget his first season for some reason.
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DVD was equally bad, 50M iirc and we don't even know what / where to play him from day 1

Beggars belief who OKed this signing.

I can accept it if the management tried and it doesn't work. DVD was a player nobody wants from day 1.
 
davidmichael said:
No long post and a simple question so who is the worst signing of the three between Sancho, Maguire and VdB ? For the money spent, the impact (or lack of) on the pitch, wages etc.

I don’t know how to add a poll so if that can be added or shown how that’d be great.
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Third one should be Sanchez. VdB kind of flops are dime a dozen

And with that correction:

1. Sanchez
2. Sancho
3. Maguire

And the first two are far worse. Maguire is only horrible because we should have never made him a captain, should have sold him long ago and are unable to sell him. He wasn't useless for the entirety of his being here, unlike Sanchez and Sancho. What also makes all these cases horrible, but especially the Sanchez/Sancho ones, is the insanely high wages they were put on - THAT is why we can't get rid if Maguire and won't be able to get rid of Sancho, either. We got very like with Sanchez, in retrospect

Seriously, giving Sancho 350K/week, and missing the behavioiral warning signs was a huge feck up. If I feck up that badly at my work, I will be fired pretty promptly. There are no consequences at United, however. Which is one of many reasons why we are a club run like shit
 
Sky1981 said:
Sancho for 250k/week + 80M signing and not even a bunch of good games, he's not even trying.
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Yes, except Sancho is on 350K/week not 250K!

Many people seem to be confused about it. United hierarchy treated him like some kind of Mbappe, just because he had couple of decent seasons at Dortmund and gave him absolutely insane salary.

Giving Sancho 350K/week was criminal!

Now we have 350K/week player "training individually" and we will carry his lazy ass for years because nobody is fecking signing him, let alone for that kind of salary
 
1. Sancho - 73m signing during Covid year (one of most expensive transfer during Covid, if not the most), by far highest paid player in the squad, totally useless and never show up on field, with near little effort made, mentally weak and lazy in training ground, fall out with manager in the end having relegate as 5th choice winger

2. Maguire - 80m signing, world most expensive defender, only give us 1 decent season and 1 average season, become biggest joke of a defender and meme in social media with his endless mistakes leaking up goals everywhere, end up as 5th choice CB, and most hatred figure at the club.

3. Pogba - leave us for free as youngster, club has bought him back for 89m, and leave us free again. Literally fecked us twice. Largely inconsistency during his time at United, with some moment of brilliance mixed with many games of shiteshow. Virus on the dressing room, has attitude problems with tendency to sulk during game, also causing lots of drama and unwanted attention outside pitch.
 
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Dan James contributed more than Sancho despite not being Utd player anymore. Case closed.
 
Maguire has his uses and gives us his all. Doesn't deserve to be on this list.

Sancho has given very little but has has mere glimpses of his ability.

Donny has offered absolutely zero, nothing, zilch. Has looked out of place and out of his depth since he arrived.
Yet Donny has somehow got away with the bile seemingly directed at the other two options.

It's Donny without question.
 
Sancho
VDB
Maguire

If it was judged on performances only, Donny would be the worst by a distance.
 
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