This is the problem. We as fans were able to see Rooney and Nani were past their best and their contracts were sucking the funds out of the club. Fellaini has had 10 good games in 6 years and says a lot when other clubs declined to give him a contract.
I'm no professional scout yet it was so obvious and in your face, I was telling my kids and family United should be buying Kante, Mahrez and Maguire whilst he was still at Hull. Some purchases were so obvious not buying these players seemed like purchases were made for reasons beyond football.
The flip side to this though is many people wanted Depay and Schneiderlin. There were threads on here about both.
I mean why wouldn’t we want the teenager who became golden boy of the season or the CM at a club like Southampton who just made Premier League team of the season.
Many fans wanted Shaw, an English teenager who would be our LB for the next 10 years. Or Darmian who had just made Serie A team of the season two years in a row.
The season we bought Pogba, Zlatan, Micky and Bailly. Can you honestly tell me you didn’t think these players would improve our chances of winning the league? I know myself I was absolutely delighted going into that season.
My point is it’s easy to say in hindsight we should have done this and that. We don’t know what happens behind the scene. Maybe we did try to sign Kanté but he wanted to move to London. City purchased Mahrez for a crazy amount of money and if he had the choice of the two clubs which one would he pick to win the league?