a_devil_inside
Big footed hermaphrodite
Di Maria for me, the huge price tag and he looked like he could never be bothered, at least Sanchez looks like he's trying.
I kind of feel for Bebe on this one. He was a cheap buy with very little expectations. He was a footballer who had never really been coached and was running on pure natural talent. I thought it was worth the risk. As it turned out, he just wasn't good enough. However, 2 goals in 7 games isn't bad and he has gone on to have a decent career and is still playing professionally. Everyone made such a big deal of a 7m signing, but I thought it was worth the risk for a guy who obviously had talent. Unfortunately, he was found too late in his footballing career to turn that natural talent into something of Manchester United quality. But give me a choice of having either him or Periera on the wing, and I will take Bebe all day. At the very least at least he was explosive (if that counts for anything )If we're talking about expectations then it's obviously Sanchez. But if it's about performance on the pitch then it's between Bebe and Schneiderlin.
How? he got 4 goals and 10/11 assists even in a disrupted campaign. How many players have got double figure assists in a season after Ferguson retired?This is Angel Di Maria by some distance for me.
"Free"Sanchez was free right so it is not a massive fee. I think Falcao and Sweinsteiger was stupid waste of money too. We payed a lot for Sweinsteiger if I remember it right.
Looking at money payed then Sanchez should not be the worst even if he performed terrible here.
What a playerI cant believe Darmian has played 92 games for us. What the feck?
I honestly can't remember anything from him. Like I don't think I could name a single game he played in where he made a contribution over the 90 minutes, good or even bad. He must be the most forgettable player to ever make that many appearances for us.What a player
Didn't know he had that massive sign on fee too. Also it is crazy if we are still paying him half his wages or more."Free"
In his 18 months here he cost us around £39m in wages - yes there are some other factors, such as losing Mhiki's wages, but I'm not taking into account Sanchez's sign-on fee which would have been substantial (reportedly £29m) - so we're talking nearly £70m.
If reports are correct we're still paying him £300k per week to sit around in Milan.
As far as expectations v reality goes, I'd say only Di Maria comes close for such a let down, but at least we got a hefty selling fee from Paris SG for him.
Agree it was a very silly move. Pure desperation and he had just returned from a serious injury which suggested it could take time for him to find top form.Actually went for Falcao.
Sanchez was a good signing at the time, that worked out horribly. When we signed him nobody was complaining though.
Falcao for me was representative of everything that was wrong with our transfer policy. Signing galactico big name players without any sort of clue.
Can you imagine someone telling you in 2012 that your club is going to sign Ibra, Falcao, Schweinsteiger, Sanchez, Mata, Di Maria, Pogba & Valdes! And fail with pretty much every one of themFellaini, Mata, Herrera, Shaw, Rojo, Di Maria, Blind, Falcao, Valdes, Depay, Darmian, Schneiderlin, Schweinsteiger, Romero, Martial, Bailly, Ibrahimovic, Mkhitaryan, Pogba, Lindelof, Lukaku, Matic, Sanchez, Dalot, Fred and Grant.