- Joined
- Nov 10, 2018
- Messages
- 36
Can’t believe so few are mentioning Solskjaer. We practically got him on free. He won us the cl-final as player and is now manager. This has to be the most value for money ever
Definitely a worthy shout, but it has to go to King Eric, the catalyst of our domination which allowed us to go on to win CL's..Can’t believe so few are mentioning Solskjaer. We practically got him on free. He won us the cl-final as player and is now manager. This has to be the most value for money ever
Cost 20m+ and didn't last long, can't be in the top 10 surely.Sentimental but Van Persie, such a game changer.
Great call on Van Der Sar. Schmeichel was seemingly impossible to replace, but, living in London, I'd seen Fulham a fair bit and couldn't understand, with all the best will, what he was doing there when he was clearly one of the best keepers in the world!! For United to get him for £2m was a brilliant bit of business, his calm authority, professionalism and personality, coupled with his outstanding talent, made him the first proper Schmeichel successor to work out.Cantona is the obvious one but Van der Sar was amazing value at £2m.
Ronaldo, purely for what he gave us and what we made when we sold him ... awesome.
I would love to see him here as DOFGreat call on Van Der Sar. Schmeichel was seemingly impossible to replace, but, living in London, I'd seen Fulham a fair bit and couldn't understand, with all the best will, what he was doing there when he was clearly one of the best keepers in the world!! For United to get him for £2m was a brilliant bit of business, his calm authority, professionalism and personality, coupled with his outstanding talent, made him the first proper Schmeichel successor to work out.
We just had to win the league that year. It was a must after how 11/12 ended. Also being Sir Alex’s last season. We couldn’t lose it.Cost 20m+ and didn't last long, can't be in the top 10 surely.
With this young team we could use another Cantona now. Maybe Pogba could be that but I think he's might be too laid back to pick up that gauntlet.Cantona - £1m
He started the revolution. Was a leader, a talisman, a lunatic, a goalscorer, a provider, your go to guy.
Box office and top top drawer
Only useful for his first season. He got his Premiership medal ambition fulfilled and not the same again.Sentimental but Van Persie, such a game changer.
By all accounts Pogba is a very focal and vocal figure in the dressing room. Agreed that he’s not the Gascoigne-Rambo type captain that takes charge but his influence shouldn’t be underestimated. Even in his worst performances he has a match winning pass on him.With this young team we could use another Cantona now. Maybe Pogba could be that but I think he's might be too laid back to pick up that gauntlet.
We won 4 Titles and two FA Cups with Eric.He was a great signing.All these people insisting it's Cantona, what you have to remember is that he was with us for about four seasons and inspired us to two premier league wins. Probably cost us the double in 95 though. He is a legend bought for £1.2M, which was still a fair amount back in 1992. I would say that even Roy Keane was better value for money than Cantona. Bought for £3.75M and was an inspiration for about 11 seasons.
Edwin van Der Saar - £2m
Patrice Evra - £5.5m
Nemanja Vidic - £7m
Cristiano Ronaldo - £12m
Michael Carrick - £14m
Wayne Rooney - £30m
Rio Ferdinand - £30m
£100m for 7 key players for our 08 CL winners squad, amazing.
£14m rising to £18.6mhang on a min here Carrick wasn't 14 mil ? he was about 25-30 with add ons
But he didn't make up a random record like you claimed...What’s the record for a 17 year old, or a 20 year old?
So very pointless - are you saying that if Ronaldo was 20, you would then arbitrarily consider him in your analysis?
About 4 seasons. £1.2 M. Influential in 2 of them.This thread should be 100 pages by now with Eric Cantona as the only answer.
Why did VDS go to Fulham? Did he just want to live in London? Was he being paid megabucks?Great call on Van Der Sar. Schmeichel was seemingly impossible to replace, but, living in London, I'd seen Fulham a fair bit and couldn't understand, with all the best will, what he was doing there when he was clearly one of the best keepers in the world!! For United to get him for £2m was a brilliant bit of business, his calm authority, professionalism and personality, coupled with his outstanding talent, made him the first proper Schmeichel successor to work out.
This is the correct answer. /thread.Denis Iriwin: £625k - Our best full back for the next eight years and then a useful squad player for four more years. Probably our best free-kick taker until Beckham stepped up and I'd claim a solid contender even then.
Peter Schmeichel: £500k - In my opinion our best goalkeeper to date and one of our most prolific players for a near decade. His presence between the poist won us so many games it's incredible and, in turn, also both trophies and titles alike.
Eric Cantona: £1.2M - Enough said really. Left a title winning Leeds side (who suddenly found themselves struggling against relegation after his departure) and then made us the dominant force in England. You can see a video of all his goals then add to the fact that his goals only tells one third the story of how important he was to us.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær: £1.5M - Brought in when Shearer went to Newcastle, and didn't disappoint. People who obsess over "that goal" are selling him way short because he was among the top-five finishers and most consistent goalscorers in the world and netted 126 goals for us over the next decade despite being used as either a sub and out of position (right wing) for most games and also despite struggling against serious injury during his latter years.
Cristiano Ronaldo: £12.2M - He could have cost us three times that and still been a bargain, and I don't really have to explain why either. He's GOAT-material.
Edwin van der Sar: £2M - Our third best Goalkeeper during the modern era behind Schmeichel and De Gea, and even though I don't rate him within their tier he was pure class and kept the fort through some very successful years.
Nemanja Vidic: £7M - Gave us back some of that toughness we were missing in the years after the 90s crew left the scene and was our strongest defender and one of our best performers for years to come.
It's quite possible he liked London and wanted to make that his home. From Quora, a response from a poster:-Why did VDS go to Fulham? Did he just want to live in London? Was he being paid megabucks?
Some of the best were obviously those we developed for free. Class of 92, George Best etc. In terms of transfers didn’t we pick-up Denis Law on a free.
How can true United fans not know this ?We won 4 Titles and two FA Cups with Eric.He was a great signing.
It has been said that "Price is only an issue in the absence of value" ... so to your point, regardless of the cost to 'buy a player" if a player "succeeds" by meeting or exceeding expectations than he (or she) has proven their intrinsic "value" to the team.I personally don’t think any ‘record fee’ signing can be considered as ‘value for money’. IF they succeeded, they simply did what was expected of them given the fee.
I think you need to look at transfer fees in the context of the market at the time.
Denis Law cost £110k, and had a far greater impact than many of the names here.
Denis Law
The story goes that The King ( my all-time hero ) cost us £ 99,999 from Torino because Sit Matt B said that no player could possibly be worth £ 100,000.
We let him leave on a free to Maine Road, and the rest is history....
https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/did-denis-law-score-goal-relegated-manchester-united
It has been said that "Price is only an issue in the absence of value" ... so to your point, regardless of the cost to 'buy a player" if a player "succeeds" by meeting or exceeding expectations than he (or she) has proven their intrinsic "value" to the team.
Given that many posters on this site would not be United fans had Sir Matt not revolutionised the way British football was being played, I find it remarkable there are not more posters like the ones below who suggest Denis Law, the true and original "King" of Old Trafford, reflects the longest lasting value for money.
According to Law's book "Living for Kicks" published in 1963, Italian club Torino paid Man City a record £110,000 in the summer of '61 to buy Denis' services ... a number that actually rose to £125,000 including interest because Torino had agreed to pay via some kind of "Hire Purchase" system, to quote Denis in the book.
After just one season at Torino, where Denis scored 10 goals (a huge tally given the brutal Italian 8-man defensive system) and was named by the Italian press as "Player Numero Uno", Denis learned his contract had been sold to Juventus for £160,000. Denis was "done" with Italian football by then and reused to go. He had found a way to quietly fly home to Britain, spending a few weeks improving his golf skills while "things" got worked out.
A deal was finally done to sell him to United in July of 1962 for £115,000, a record for British football at the time. Busby had wanted to buy Denis much earlier in his career and almost got hime for only £10,000 but perhaps if that deal had been done, Denis would have been on that plane too?
So bear in mind the timing of this transfer ... United were still reeling from the impact of he Munich air crash 4 years earlier and Sir Matt could not afford the time to rebuild his team from what remained, so he had no choice but to buy. And none of the several purchases he made would prove more valuable than Denis. By May '63, Charlton, Herd & Law had made their way to Wembley and there they dominated Leicester to win the FA cup ... later that year a certain Georgie Best arrived at the club and along with Sir Bobby, the new trio including Denis, created an even more attacking and exciting style of football not unlike of what the "Babes" had been groomed to become. The names of this "trio" may not be familiar to newer United fans but perhaps you've seen the statue?
The incredible rise over 10 years from from that awful, fateful day in February 1958 to the spectacular European Cup win in 1968 would not have happened without the goals from Denis Law (some so spectacular had to be seen to be believed) ... not in the actual final of course, but in the many games leading up to winning the league and ultimately that first final.
And my point, the millions of United fans, supporters or whatever we call ourselves these days, have so much to thank Sir Matt for; and spending what seemed like an unreasonable sum for one player at the time is just one of them!
Long live the king!
He had a few seasons where he turned into a non-footballer after being quality. Both him and Nani actually. Valencia had some great seasons for us, but also too many where he was absolutely dire to rate him among the best bargains. Also have to consider the context that we had just sold Ronaldo for a world record fee and should have had the funds to buy someone like Rooben instead who was a far better play than Valencia.Antonio Valencia has gotten a lot of flask last year, but overall a brilliant signing for the club who was always first name on the team sheet for 9 years and ran himself to the ground for us.