Worst United signings of the past decade

Livvie

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So many players turn bad after coming to us it's getting a bit weird... :nervous:
 

starman

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1.Sanchez
2. Pogba
3.Scweinsteiger

All players that we never needed but were swayed by over indulgents, the name, hype and glamour.

Someone like Di Maria, turned out bad because he couldn't settle, but he was never a player that was a bad signing from purely a footballing sense.
 

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Di Maria and Sanchez are the big two.

If value is coming into the equation, Pogba has to be in there amongst those two. But that would change if we could get a big-ish fee from Real for him.

Dalot has cost the club more money - and provided less return - than either Lingard or Pereira. Poor performances on the pitch are actually better than no performances because you're not training well enough to even make the cut.
 

jackal&hyde

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Sanchez, not even a question. Major investment for next to 0 results and a destabilizing effect on the wage structure.

Pogba has a good number of goals and assists that his critics pretend they don't exist and Di Maria we got good money in return.
 

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Sanchez, Di Maria, Falcao, Schneiderlin, Darmian, Schweinsteiger, Bebe, Zaha (never played).
 
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Sanchez and Di Maria are a special kind of bad.

Miki, Rojo, Darmian, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlain pretty much added nothing.

the money Rojo cost us, especially when you consider the Nani loan and his wages is shocking.

Lukaku was appalling as he was nowhere near good enough, and we were lucky to get a good fee for him. Never a Man Utd player.

Depay, and Zaha were very disappointing, but arguably we might have been better keeping them.

I’m sure there’s many more. Far more failures than successes
 

edgecutter

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It's harder to pick out the better signings than the worst ones.

Only RVP, Ibra and DDG have been too class. The rest have been average to awful.