tomaldinho1
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Personally I think you could say the same for Di Maria, Falcao and Depay on your first point - with hindsight they were varying levels of terrible but all three were highly exciting and rated at the time. Di Maria remains a top drawer player to this day and the others are doing well in their current teams.I probably should have been more clear. That summer, when United signed Ibra, Pogba and Mkhitaryan was a huge change for me. It was the first time post Fergie that the club signed top class players in positions they really needed. Mkhitaryan didn't work out in the end but he was the type of player the club really needed (fast, creative attacking player).
LVG had 2 seasons to build a squad, spent a fortune and it was shambolic. He went from the best group of 4 strikers in the league (RVP, Rooney, Chicharito and Welbeck) to a past it Rooney and 3 kids. This was at a time when the price of top class attackers was sky rocketing.
His signings in defence (Darmian and Rojo) and midfield (Schneiderlin and Schweinsteiger) couldn't get in the team.
If he was given another season, I shudder to think what the team would have looked like.
Generally transfers have been abysmal post Fergie so I don't think he's any different to Mourinho or Moyes in that regard, I fully support his deadwood clear out and there's no way RVP, Rooney, Welbeck and Chicarito were the best group of four strikers in the league. RVP was done, Rooney was done, Welbeck is average and Chicarito is ok. Chelsea had Costa (who alone is better than all four at that time), Drogba, Remy and Torres & City had Aguero (again, I'd rather him than all four), Dzeko, Jovetic and Bony.
I'm not saying we should have kept him on or that he was an amazing manager but, even though his football was like a shoddily made X-Men origins version of Pep's Barca, I still think he should be remembered in a better light than he seems to be on here.