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 current 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 is no higher place to start out than with Manchester United’s biggest-money flop so far…
Who’s Manchester United’s costliest ever signing?
Paul Pogba poses after re-signing for the membership on 8 August 2016 (Picture credit score: Manchester United by way of Getty Pictures)
It is nonetheless Paul Pogba, who returned to Previous 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 actually had his moments and good spells – 2018/19 being a spotlight – however the membership let him go away on a free in 2022 after an total 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?
The £59.7m Man United paid for Di Maria was a British membership document again in 2014 (Picture credit score: Getty)
Angel Di Maria was (appropriately) a type of big-name, big-money Hail Mary signings who’ve arrived at Previous 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 truly, issues began fairly nicely for Di Maria as he gained the membership’s Participant of the Month and Purpose of the Month awards for September.
However that was nearly as good because it received 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 12 months after he had arrived.
That about sums up United’s prime 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 remaining is an unimaginable quantity of “did not actually work out”, with Romelu Lukaku, Jadon Sancho, Casemiro and Mason Mount all that includes.
Anyone ship the board right down to Brentford or Brighton to see what a scouting division seems to be like, we reckon.
Manchester United’s prime ten costliest gamers of all time
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Participant
Charge
Yr
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
