Brightonian
Full Member
A question for those with better memories, more willingness to graft and stronger opinions than me.
Below is a list of the most expensive players signed by Manchester United in the last ten years who have proven to be objectively bad value for money.
Not all were straighforward 'flops', but none has been successful enough to be worth the money paid.
I haven't looked below £50m or at anyone signed as recently as last summer because I don't want the thread to become an argument about who was/is or wasn't/isn't a flop/bad signing.
Paul Pogba - 2016 - £89m
Antony - 2022 - £82m
Harry Maguire - 2019 - £80m
*Romelu Lukaku - 2017 - £75m
Jadon Sancho - 2021 - £73m
Casemiro - 2022- £70m
*Angel Di Maria - 2014 - £60m
*Sold for a complete or significant recoup of cost.
Three questions:
Absolutely throw your hypothetical 'United without spending so much money' 2024 line-ups in here for good measure. Best case scenario and realistic versions welcome!
Below is a list of the most expensive players signed by Manchester United in the last ten years who have proven to be objectively bad value for money.
Not all were straighforward 'flops', but none has been successful enough to be worth the money paid.
I haven't looked below £50m or at anyone signed as recently as last summer because I don't want the thread to become an argument about who was/is or wasn't/isn't a flop/bad signing.
Paul Pogba - 2016 - £89m
Antony - 2022 - £82m
Harry Maguire - 2019 - £80m
*Romelu Lukaku - 2017 - £75m
Jadon Sancho - 2021 - £73m
Casemiro - 2022- £70m
*Angel Di Maria - 2014 - £60m
*Sold for a complete or significant recoup of cost.
Three questions:
- With unabashed hindsight, who were the 'cheap' signings other clubs made in similar positions in those same transfer windows who would have been much better options for us?
- Putting hindsight aside, who were the 'cheap' options we might realistically have considered and who fans actually wanted us to buy instead at the time?
- How might our last ten years have looked if we'd had a policy of banning mega-signings and instead looking for value in the market?
Absolutely throw your hypothetical 'United without spending so much money' 2024 line-ups in here for good measure. Best case scenario and realistic versions welcome!