Most disappointing record transfer….

[tenpoless]

Mkhitaryan
Kagawa

simply because they were so good before joining us and we didn't know what to do with them. Mata also fits in this category.

Di Maria has to be the most disappointing of all though.

 

[Josh 76]

I think it depends on how you view the disappointment. For me with Veron the disappointment came when we sold him. He had moments of pure brilliance. We never figured out how to use him. With Mata for example I just think, Juanfield aside, he’s been largely forgettable.

What moments of brilliance did Veron have?

Berbatov hatrick against the scousers at OT and Mata’s two goals at Anfield were better than any Veron moments.

plus Mata goal in the cup final against Palace

 

[Hugh Jass]

Sancho. Done absolutely nothing so far. Including signing officially.

 

[Hugh Jass]

Sanchez no? Astromical high wages and scored like four goals or something.

 

[Withnail]

I think it depends on how you view the disappointment. For me with Veron the disappointment came when we sold him. He had moments of pure brilliance. We never figured out how to use him. With Mata for example I just think, Juanfield aside, he’s been largely forgettable.

I'd agree on Veron but I'd say the same thing for Mata. He's a 10 that's been played at RW for most of his time here.

We've certainly got more goals, moments of magic and enjoyment from Mata than we ever got from Veron.

Worst signing for me is Di Maria, especially seeing as he went on to play brilliantly elsewhere unlike the rest of them (those who I've seen play anyway)

 

[Cloud7]

Sanchez is the most disappointing transfer we've ever done for me. Sure he was a 'free' transfer that wasn't actually free, because the amount he cost us in wages was insane, and for what we paid him, what we delivered was insanely underwhelming. At least Di Maria was pretty good and had the most assists in his time here, but Sanchez is the worst by far.

 

[led_scholes]

Berba? While Rooney was sulking, he was carrying us. Never a flop, just never a Cantonesque signing.

Mata. Good player but a panic buy. As long as Rooney was playing as a 10ish, there was no room for him. So practically we lost 2.5 years. His best form, imo, came with Jose, ironically.

 

[antohan]

Di María by a significant distance

There's two sides to a disappointing signing: performing below par/expectations and attitude.

Di Maria stank up the place on both counts. I wouldn't even blame LVG as I expected him to be used similar to Robben at WC14. If anything it proved how much more than tricky pacey runs goes into that.

Pogba second, although my expectations were nowhere near as high as those of others and I can't be disappointed about all the Raiola and prima donna stuff, it was fully expected. Cracking player, inconsistent, not worth all the accommodating but I still consider him an asset.

Mata we fecked that up, I expected it to be bad and Juan made it better than expected.

Verón we gambled, it didn't really work but, again, wouldn't pin that on Verón myself.

Berbatov was fine, not sure what else people expected. We paid a Levy tax, willingly.

 

[FattyFooty]

Sanchez its not even close to me. It was stupid from the very beginning. Most typical Arsenal player i ever seen.

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

Di Maria, by a mile. He had 2 or 3 good games and then just decided to jack it in. He put in some grim performances, particularly during the winter.

I think we overpaid for Mata at the time, but he was still a good acquisition.

 

[francobaresi]

Veron

 

[alexthelion]

Birtles and Di Maria.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

Veron was the most disappointing - one of the very best players in the world. Never lived up to his billing. You knew the talent was there. I felt he and United would go on to be something very special.

Di Maria wasn’t as disappointing. Nowhere near the same caliber as Veron, nowhere near as an exciting a signing. Biggest rat, absolutely. An utter scumbag.

 

[Schmeichel's Cartwheel]

Di maria is disgraceful, for the club and for him. He doesnt want to be here.

BFS

What's that southampton midfielder name again? He was good on FM at least.

Martial, stinking the place for 5 year.

Karel poborsky

Djemba2

That’s not true though is it

 

[big rons sovereign]

As the title says, who is your most disappointing club record transfer?

Pogba
Di Maria
Mata
Veron
Berbatov
Webb
Birtles

for me I’d go Mata or Berbatov. Neither have done anything close to what they did at their previous clubs. Mata was sensational at Chelsea but bang average for us. He hasn’t registered as a player who looks like one of the best in the league since we signed him he just been a decent player. Berbatov whilst perhaps a better player overall for us found himself out of the team in big games after his first season and just never came close to the player he looked at Spurs.

Neil Webb perhaps the biggest Cnut alongside DiMaria, but at least we got most of our money back on him.

What did Neil Webb do?

 

[manutddjw]

Di Maria. The guy is a little girl and has zero fight in him. I blame LvG for a lot of things but he did right by Di Maria. After the burglary he gave him time off. The only good thing Di Maria did was stop me buying kits from the official shop. After yet another $150 kit peeled, I went the DH Gate route and found the quality to be much better for a fraction of the price.

 

[ClaytonBlackmoorLeftPeg]

What did Neil Webb do?

Failed to deliver the OPs post on time?

 

[lysglimt]

Surely Veron. He was arguably one of the best players in the world the season before. We had one of the best teams in the world - and if anything, he made us weaker.

 

[big rons sovereign]

Failed to deliver the OPs post on time?

Could be. I always his knee got destroyed and he was never the same again.

Edit: just looked it up, bit of a whiny prick.

 

[Luke1995]

I expected more out of Chicharito to be honest. He had a great first season and a somewhat good second season, but in 2012-13 and 13-14 his form dropped massively compared to previous level

He seemed to have the tools to become a mainstay here for years to come...

He definitely wasn't the most disappointing. Just wanted to mention it.

The most disappointing IMO is Di Maria because he came here arguably in his prime. In Sanchez's case, we suspected that he wasn't the same player as in 2014-15 or 2015-16.

 

[TheRedHearted]

Has to be Di Maria in terms of let-down-factor. He did bugger all on the pitch, got benched by Young, sulked, then forced his way out at a 15m loss after just a few months.

Pogba was a world record fee and hasn’t come close to justifying it, and unless something unexpected happens will leave on a free next year. It says a lot that he still isn’t the most disappointing big money signing we’ve made recently.

Veron was good, just not good enough to replace what we already had.

Di Maria didnt fancy it here and had about one good game.

Mata wasnt a better player than Rooney but miles ahead of Kagawa. Has done a decent job for us.

Not true. 27 appearances, third in the league with assists. Cesc with 34 appearances, Cazorla with 37. Second season he woulda scored more as well imo.

these players had the top four assists of the season in the premier league.

Player	Country	Assists
Cesc Fàbregas	Spain	19
Santi Cazorla	Spain	12
Ángel Di María	Argentina	11
Eden Hazard	Belgium	10

 

[redmanx]

This is about record signings, paying top, top money for a player who simply didnt live up to expectations? Well, in my opinion there can only be 2 players who meet this criteria, Ted McDougall and Paul Pogba. Frank O'Farrell paid 3rd. Division Bournemouth £200.000 for McDougall in 1972, a fortune at the time but, after scoring on his debut, he only scored another 4 goals in something like 20 games and was sold to West Ham by Tommy Docherty the following season. McDougall really was the proverbial fish out of water.

 

[Maluco]

Pogba. The rest all left when it didn’t work out. Our friend Paul has stayed and given countless soundbites and snippets putting down the club, while only showing up himself every 8-9 games.

Acts like he is above the recent underachieving when he is as much to blame as anyone else. Some would say moreso, as he should have been a difference maker.

Leaving a second time for free would just put a cherry on top of an awful Sundae.

 

[tentan]

Di Maria.

Berbatov was a good signing.

 

[frookydinho]

Growing up in the 90s watching Football Italia on Channel 4, seeing Serie A which was possibly the greatest league of all time in that era, I have never been more excited to see a player sign for us then Seba Veron. The disappointment of how it all turned out

But that's me, I also had ridiculous excitement when Falcao signed for us as well

 

[Will Singh]

Although your list has got players who didn’t show or haven’t yet shown the brilliance they are capable of, Di Maria for me is the biggest Cnut of the lot for what he did. We bought him as a world class player and a MOTM champions league performance and right now Fred and McT has shown more then he ever did.

 

[meamth]

Because we thought we're getting future ballon dor winner with Berba, but instead, Berba was only elite level striker.. understandable

 

[Siezard]

Not a united player but Ousmane Dembele has to go down as one of the biggest transfer flops.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...e-set-ruinous-signing-Barcelonas-HISTORY.html

What a waste of space too. If you have bought Martial instead, maybe he can pick up a Euro 2020 gold or runner's up medal

 

[Siezard]

Because we thought we're getting future ballon dor winner with Berba, but instead, Berba was only elite level striker.. understandable

I don't think that Berba's fault for not being a future ballon dor winner. He was already 27 years old when he joined. The media hyped him up to the sky. And clubs in general will play him less when he reach 30 years and more. How to be a ballon dor winner when clubs don't even play you regularly. Of course he also had injuries but he was not sent back to the team to play because there's lack of faith in him.

 

[The_Midfielder]

I don't think that Berba's fault for not being a future ballon dor winner. He was already 27 years old when he joined. The media hyped him up to the sky. And clubs in general will play him less when he reach 30 years and more. How to be a ballon dor winner when clubs don't even play you regularly. Of course he also had injuries but he was not sent back to the team to play because there's lack of faith in him..

Berba was good in a lot of things .. but he didn't have the killer instinct.. he wasn't clutch... Thats what distinguishes the good and the great .. RVN had it .. RVP had it ..Berbatov didn't have it

 

[meamth]

Berba was good in a lot of things .. but he didn't have the killer instinct.. he wasn't clutch... Thats what distinguishes the good and the great .. RVN had it .. RVP had it ..Berbatov didn't have it

But hey, still, Berbatov made me play football differently, definitely one of my idols, and glad he played for United.

The man was a genius, loved his time here with us.

 

[predator]

Calling pogba a flop is a odd one for me as it would be like telling someone a film is no good when you only watched two thirds of it. He can still go on to have a great career at united. A reinvigorated pogba after the euros on a new contract could happen.

 

[Ali Dia]

It’s a tie between Sanchez and Di Maria for me. 2 fellas who thought they were bigger and better than us and came only for the money, nothing more nothing less.

Sanchez. We literally had to pay him to play somewhere else and then pay him to go away. His contract was disgusting and he was so clearly on the decline before he came in. I never wanted him and called it early. I only wish city had got him.

Di Maria, I really wanted him and he was terrible and clearly never wanted to be here but nobody else came in for him. Why didn’t he just refuse to leave Madrid and save us all the hassle. One player I always love to watch fail.

 

[Castia]

Di Maria easily

Only good thing is we got most of our money back.

 

[marktan]

As the title says, who is your most disappointing club record transfer?

Pogba
Di Maria
Mata
Veron
Berbatov
Webb
Birtles

for me I’d go Mata or Berbatov. Neither have done anything close to what they did at their previous clubs. Mata was sensational at Chelsea but bang average for us. He hasn’t registered as a player who looks like one of the best in the league since we signed him he just been a decent player. Berbatov whilst perhaps a better player overall for us found himself out of the team in big games after his first season and just never came close to the player he looked at Spurs.

Neil Webb perhaps the biggest Cnut alongside DiMaria, but at least we got most of our money back on him.

I do actually agree on Mata and Berbatov. At least with Di Maria and relatedly Lukaku we made our money back.

Both Mata and Berba are talented but I just feel like they never really were right for the team. Mata, with his constant pass sideways and runaway, I always felt hindered our attack rather than actually contributing to it. Berba, a bit more harsh as he was still good and part of a very good team, but I include him predominantly for kicking Tevez out the team, who was a vastly superior player and which really precipitated the decline of our our great 07/08 team.

Pogba I think is harsher to include as his highs have been far higher than the likes of Di Maria and Mata for example. He has blown hot and cold but he's had long periods where he was pivotal to our good form, e.g during Oles first month's.

 

[kthanksbye]

Maybe it's just me, but when Mata was signed, all I could think was "Why?" We had Rooney as AM/SS, and Kagawa as back up, so shelling out all that money for Mata seemed so fecking useless. Going through list of players on transfermarkt now, seems even then we had right wing problems, as Januzaj is the only listed right winger. A panic buy in every sense for me. Not saying he's the worst, just didn't ever seem to fit, unless we were going to phase Rooney out then, which we never did.

This. Moyes was already having a hard time getting the best out of a very talented #10 in Kagawa, I had no hopes from Mata when we signed him.

 

[kthanksbye]

Any creative player before Bruno really, all have been disappointing, we were a cemetery for creative players after SAF, we could've signed Iniesta and he'd have stopped playing through balls.

 

[NinjaZombie]

Definitely Di Maria.

Those were weird times. After decades of Fergie's management, we were selling players who'd risen up the ranks of the club like Rafael, Welbeck and Evans for players who didn't want to be here like Di Maria.

 

[Nori-]

Pogba has been massively disappointing but the fact he's such a global brand and probably brings in a fortune commercially for the club, makes up for it a little.

Lukaku was another bad one but we got most of his fee back so didn't feel as bad.

The obvious choice for me has to be Di Maria. Its like he was at the club at gun point. Constantly confused or unhappy about something. Then we made a loss on his transfer fee and ofcourse the beer bottle incident. Horrible signing.

(Not a record signing but Falcao was really underwhelming too)

 

[MrSingh2002]

Berbatov because he never even played as well for us as he did at Spurs. He felt he made it coming here because of the love Fergie showed him and it didn't then work out.

Mata as I knew he wasn't physically going to be a success as a number 10 at United when compared with a Sheringham, Yorke or Rooney.