I'd agree with most of this, but feel like you could take the transfer fee more into account in some cases. For example, AWB and Maguire have had decent spells for the club like you say, but with the fees we paid, you would expect to get world class players. On the other hand, I'd consider Eriksen a pretty good signing given that we got him for free and that we needed a player in midfield - his downturn was sadly accelerated by Andy Carroll.
I’m still fecking angry about that. The cnut wasn’t sent for that clear foul. He was eventually given a second yellow card, but should have sent off straight after injuring Eriksen. The injury to Eriksen was a watershed moment; we’ve been noticeably shit ever since.
You can't seriously call Cavani just decent ? He scored 17 goals in 39 matches on a free transfer
He was a decent signing overall. A lot of the signings on here are being judged too harshly IMO, while some are being remembered too fondly. However, Cavani deciding to be fit for international games but not for club games pissed me off.
Anyway, here is my summary of our signings from summer 2013 onwards:
Moyes
*Fellaini - absolutely horrific signing initially. We had Thiago lined up by Fergie only for Moyes to veto it and sign one of his players from Everton at a price higher than we could have signed him. Ultimately, not that bad - he turned out to be a reliable player from 2015 or so onwards.
*Mata - decent to good. The only problem is that we never played him in his best position and ultimately ended up letting him go on a free as he stayed at us until 2022.
LvG
*Herrera - decent to good. A very diligent player who seemed to love the club. Losing him to PSG in 2019 was a big blow.
*Shaw - good to great, but he’s never really recovered from the horrific injury that the thundercnut Moreno inflicted on him in September 2015.
*Blind - pretty decent/meh
*Di María - great at first, I remember his great performance against QPR in September 2014. However it was ultimately horrific - he was robbed, and never liked it here. He left us for PSG, and throve there.
*Falcao - disappointing, he was never the same after his injury and we signed him too late
*Rojo - decent
*Depay - mediocre
*Schneiderlin - mediocre
*Schweinsteiger - I don’t know why but I liked having him here. He was too old but he loved the club and gave his all. I know about him fecking off at points, but it was pretty cool having him play. I wasn’t really as interested in football from between 2013-2021; I was still interested, but not massively.
*Darmian - decent
*Martial - decent at first, had a great start, fantastic season in 2019-20, horrible since 2020
*Romero - decent
*Valdés - didn’t play enough
Mourinho
*Bailly - too many injuries. Very chaotic, better player in 21-22 than Maguire
*Pogba - very mixed. He did have some great moments but also some absolute lows. Won the World Cup with France in 2018 (I’m only mentioning this because I’m watching a BBC documentary about Mbappé)
*Ibrahimović - great. He was ancient when we signed him but scored a lot until he got injured in February. If he hadn’t gotten injured, we probably would’ve finished higher.
*Mkhitaryan - decent
*Matić - good-ish, but we signed him too late
*Lukaku - decent
*Lindelöf - mediocre
*Sánchez - probably the most disappointing football transfer ever. We had such high expectations, but he flopped massively.
*Dalot - pretty decent, has improved recently and is one of the best of a bad bunch this season
*Grant - didn’t play enough
*Fred - meh. He had some great performances, but too many absolutely awful performances that were on the level that Rashford has delivered this season
Solskjær
*James - mid-table signing, we did manage to make a rare profit though
*AWB - was pretty good after the World Cup last season, otherwise mediocre at best, mid-table signing
*Maguire - great initially up to the Greece incident, horrific 21-22 season, been decent-ish this season
*Bruno - absolutely fantastic initially, single-handedly got us third place in first half season. He’s been nowhere near as good since 2021
*Ighalo - decent
*Van de Beek - waste of money. I considered him a decent signing up until 2022, as he was dropped for Fred. Been hardly played since, has been loaned out, suffered injuries, and been mediocre at best.
*Telles - meh. Not good enough and also deserved to have been sold after he celebrated Sevilla beating us when he was on loan to them last season
*Cavani - decent first season, not so good second season as, as I mentioned, he declared himself unfit for us but somehow fit for national team games.
*Amad - only started getting game time this season. He’s decent, one for the future.
*Pellistri - not good enough
*Sancho - was okay at first, but ultimately bad
*Varane - pretty decent first two seasons, formed a great centre-back pairing with Martínez last season. Has been frozen out and injured most of this season. Will be leaving, probably on a free.
*Ronaldo - I was fecking stoked when he rejoined us, as even though I was 10 when he left the first time around, I didn’t like football at the time and only started following football and United in 2010. Had a good start to his second spell, but the season ended up a complete disaster (though compared to this season it’s a roaring success). Was our top scorer and bailed us out numerous times, including hat-tricks against Spurs and Norwich. Ultimately had a very bitter end.
ten Hag
*Malacia - decent first season up until his horror mistake against Sevilla in the first leg of the Europa League quarter final, which ultimately cost us the tie. Has been injured this entire season with no sign of him ever coming back.
*Martínez - great first season, our best centre-back since Vidić left. Second season has been completely plagued by injuries.
*Eriksen - as I said, good until Carroll injured him (although was awful in the Arsenal game a week before), been a shadow of his former self since
*Casemiro - fantastic first season until the bogus suspensions in January/February/March. Horrific second season
*Antony - decent initially, awful since
*Dubravka - didn’t play enough, had a nervy game against Burnley in the League Cup
*Butland - didn’t play at all
*Weghorst - absolutely horrific, despite his decent work rate he scored 2 goals in 29 games - less than 1 goal every 10 games - which is an extremely abysmal output for a striker
*Sabitzer - decent
*Mount - stupid, unnecessary signing
*Heaton - hasn’t played, cool to have him back after leaving in the summer of 2010, befofe I became a fan of United in the autumn of that year (the biggest player who played for us in 09-10 but not in the next season was Ben Foster), obviously very old
*Onana - good first two games, horrific from then until January, been mediocre to good since
*Højlund - good considering the circumstances, very promising kid
*Evans - supposed to be a stopgap, done well in his second spell at the club
*Bayindir - he performed well in his only game for us (the FA Cup fourth round game against Newport)
*Reguilón - decent despite injuries
*Amrabat - again, very promising, had a great first proper game in the league cup against Crystal Palace, been poor since but okay in the last two games
I also remember reading on this site that we signed some bloke called Andy Kellett on loan from some team like Bolton (I think), something of which I have next to zero recollection.
