After Sir Alex left the team, Man Utd made many wrong deals and below are typical examples.
Marouane Fellaini followed David Moyes to Man Utd for nearly 30 million pounds. In April 2014, he was named in the list of 10 worst deals of the season voted by the Telegraph. With limited technical qualities, Fellaini seems only suitable for decent average teams.
After the success in the 2014 World Cup, Memphis Depay was noticed by many big teams. Finally, in the summer of 2015, he followed his teacher Louis van Gaal to Man Utd to play football. However, this is the most wrong decision of Depay’s career. He has 33 matches here and only scored 2 goals.
Ángel Di María came to Man Utd while at the peak of fame in Madrid. He cost Man Utd about 60 million pounds but was a total failure of the contract. The Argentina international lacks the fitness to play in the Premier League and has problems with coach Van Gaal.
Coach Jose Mourinho worked with Romelu Lukaku at Chelsea and he urged the Man Utd board to buy this player. Under media pressure, Lukaku did not play well at Old Trafford and left after only scoring 28 goals in 66 appearances.
In 2018, Alexis Sanchez came to Man Utd in an exchange with Arsenal. However, at that time, Sanchez was down in form and did not contribute much for the Red Devils.
Paul Pogba returned to Man Utd in the summer of 2016. It seemed that Pogba would combine well with Mourinho, but in the end this was Man Utd’s biggest mistake.
Man Utd spent £ 73 million to recruit Jadon Sancho in the summer of 2021.
Sancho is said to have suffered from psychological problems and is losing opportunities under Erik Ten Hag.
Antony had a successful time working with Ten Hag at Ajax.
That’s why he wanted to bring him to Man Utd last summer. However, Antony has not yet performed properly for the transfer fee of 100 million euros.