Sideshow Bob
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Inspired by @IDFD’s post in the Bruno Fernandes thread, who has been United’s best signing since Fergie retired?
Yeah it’s amazing how many signings have been poor. On paper a lot of them made sense, Depay was a young star who looked like he has the world at his feet, Schneiderlin looked perfect and was used to the league, Di Maria was world class for Madrid. I could go on but most of them turned out horribly.Of those. Players that are still here:
1 of 2 in 13/14 (Mata)
1 of 7 in 14/15 (Shaw)
2 of 6 in 15/16 (Romero & Martial)
2 of 4 in 16/17 (Martial & Bailly)
2 of 4 in 17/18 (Lindelof & Matic)
The last 8 still remain.
8 players from 23 remain from 5 years worth of transfers. That really sums up our transfer policy and how poor it's been. I really do think the club have turned a corner with the latest signings in Maguire, AWB, Bruno, James. To some extent Fred and Dalot. Who even if not starting are still good parts of a squad. And Ighalo and Grant can be excused. One's an emergency situation the other is a third keeper. Never realized how awful the club were last summer though. Fred Dalot and Grant. No wonder that Mourinho was pissy!
Just a reminder of the signings since Fergie. We have signed some real talent but a lot just haven’t worked out or lived up to expectation. You can’t really make a case for a lot of them to be honest.
Probably say Martial, then Ibra/Pogba and then Mata. It all says a lot about how poor signings have been when you can argue a good case for including Romero in the top 7 or 8.
19/20
Bruno Fernandes
Odion Ighalo
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Harry Maguire
Daniel James
18/19
Fred
Diogo Dalot
Lee Grant
17/18
Romelu Lukaku
Nemanja Matic
Victor Lindelof
Alexis Sanchez
16/17
Paul Pogba
Henrikh Mkhitaryan
Eric Bailly
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
15/16
Anthony Martial
Morgan Schneiderlin
Memphis Depay
Matteo Darmian
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Sergio Romero
14/15
Angel Di Maria
Luke Shaw
Marcos Rojo
Ander Herrera
Daley Blind
Falcao
Victor Valdes
13/14
Juan Mata
Marouane Fellaini
Yeah it’s amazing how many signings have been poor. On paper a lot of them made sense, Depay was a young star who looked like he has the world at his feet, Schneiderlin looked perfect and was used to the league, Di Maria was world class for Madrid. I could go on but most of them turned out horribly.
Say what you will about Ole but the signings he is bringing in will be the cornerstone our team for the next 5-6 years you would say. Just got to build on them and carry on the good policy.
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