Manchester United weren’t afraid to wield their monetary would possibly beneath Sir Alex Ferguson, and so they nonetheless aren’t now. The distinction is that they really used to signal good gamers.
The quantity of waste in United’s latest historical past is genuinely staggering, as a have a look at their costliest signings of all time makes clear.
We’ll get onto the highest ten shortly, however there isn’t any higher place to start out than with Manchester United’s biggest-money flop so far…
Who’s Manchester United’s costliest ever signing?
It is nonetheless Paul Pogba, who returned to Outdated Trafford from Juventus in 2016 having left after only a handful of senior appearances 4 years prior. £89.3m is some huge cash in soccer now, not to mention in 2016, and the French worldwide carried an enormous weight of expectation on his shoulders with United then nonetheless not too far faraway from their post-Ferguson hunch and hopeful and climbing again onto their perch.
Pogba definitely had his moments and good spells – 2018/19 being a spotlight – however the membership let him depart on a free in 2022 after an general disappointing six years. He ranks second on our listing of United’s worst-ever signings.
Who held the Manchester United switch document earlier than Paul Pogba?
Angel Di Maria was (appropriately) a type of big-name, big-money Hail Mary signings who’ve arrived at Outdated Trafford over the previous decade solely to show disappointing.
The £59.7m United paid for the Actual Madrid winger was a British membership document again in 2014, and really, issues began fairly properly for Di Maria as he gained the membership’s Participant of the Month and Purpose of the Month awards for September.
However that was pretty much as good because it obtained for the Argentine, who had began to battle even earlier than struggling a mid-season hamstring damage and was outright terrible after his return. He left for PSG lower than a yr after he had arrived.
That about sums up United’s high ten document signings of all time, with an terrible lot of cash very questionably spent.
The £80m they spent on Harry Maguire in 2019 might be the choose of the bunch because it stands, which says so much, although United will probably be hoping to see extra out of £72m signing Rasmus Hojlund over the approaching years.
The remainder is an unimaginable quantity of “did not actually work out”, with Romelu Lukaku, Jadon Sancho, Casemiro and Mason Mount all that includes.
Any individual ship the board all the way down to Brentford or Brighton to see what a scouting division appears like, we reckon.
Manchester United’s high ten costliest gamers of all time
| Participant | Charge | 12 months | Signed from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Pogba | £89.3m | 2016 | Juventus |
| Antony | £82m | 2022 | Ajax |
| Harry Maguire | £80m | 2019 | Leicester |
| Romelu Lukaku | £75m | 2017 | Everton |
| Jadon Sancho | £73m | 2021 | Borussia Dortmund |
| Rasmus Hojlund | £72m | 2023 | Atalanta |
| Casemiro | £60m | 2022 | Actual Madrid |
| Angel Di Maria | £59.7m | 2014 | Actual Madrid |
| Lisandro Martinez | £57m | 2022 | Ajax |
| Mason Mount | £55m | 2023 | Chelsea |
