The market fails after fails.
Manchester United have not been doing well in the transfer market for a long time, the club is one of the leaders Premier League expense for players. But the exhaust on their part is minimal, the maximum of the Mancunians is second place in the championship.
Even his head coach Eric ten Hag recently decided to sting his English grandfather for the selection:
In recent years, the club has bought an unimaginable number of bad players. Most of the players acquired were mid-level performers. It’s not enough for Manchester United to be average. Wearing a United shirt is very difficult. Only real people who are able to cope with enormous pressure can play here.
The reproach is absolutely fair – however, United continue to waste money at the suggestion of the Dutch coach himself. We are talking about players whose spending does not match their level or who have not paid.
Jadon Sancho, 85 million
The English winger from Borussia Dortmund earned the status of the main transfer lot by the summer of 2021. Jadon quickly broke into the Bundesliga, gave out 2 explosive seasons and one just good.
IN Manchester United considering that this was enough to pay 85 million euros – and now the English talent defends the colors of the “red devils”. It cannot be said that Sancho had little field time in his native league. But now he looks like a pale shadow of himself (even the coach has noticed). The winger has trained separately from the team since the beginning world Cup-2022 and has already missed 3 games since the resumption of the season.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka, 55 million
Although the young fullback played the first few seasons in the team, he took a place in the base, rarely getting injured. The regression has touched him in the last 2 years. In the previous championship, the Englishman missed just under half of the Red Devils’ games, and with the advent of ten Haga was out injured for almost 4 months.
In late December, Aaron returned and Eric released him twice in the beginning. But at the moment, Diogo Dalot is considered the main one, and therefore the 25-year-old Englishman is among the unreasonably expensive players.
Anthony, 100 million
Well, the Brazilian is not worth that much money! It’s hard to imagine how many seasons United would have to drag out the right winger to make up for it.
Anthony ripped away from Ajax because the Amsterdam team chose the ideal strategy for him: he overloaded the opposite flank and gave space to the right, so that he could quickly enter the last third.
Anthony’s statistics in the English club are not bad 3 goals in 8 games Premier League, often goes to the field. However, the categories “not bad” and “time consuming” are more difficult to apply when it comes to the most expensive acquisition in 2022.
Donny van de Beek, 40 million
One of the creators of the success of the recent Ajax, the Mancunians acquired a year after the breakthrough in the 2018/19 season for Amsterdam. The amount of compensation for the Great Dutchman is not that large by modern standards.
Rather, it’s a shame for the midfielder himself: he failed to adjust to reality Premier League, quickly became a reserve player, a loan to Everton also followed. Despite Donny’s talent and solidity at Ajax, the midfielder’s move to United is an objective failure.
What can I say, even if ten Hag, who worked with him in the Dutch top, won’t give him a place at the start. Now an injury in the match with Bournemouth has been added to this – it looks very painful.
Romelu Lukaku, 85+15 million
The best seasons of the Belgian Athletic miraculously surpass the best English clubs. When Chelsea paid Inter 115 million euros, the forward was limited to a modest 8 goals in one season.
The amount Man United gave Everton was modest, but the take-off was also insignificant. At that time, the era of the fabulous fee was only gaining momentum – this should be taken into account when evaluating the agreement between the Mancunians and the Toffees.
And Romelu’s main problem was revealed to United: he was so excited that he turned out to be awkward, lost in speed.
After the departure of José Mourinho from the post of head coach, Lukaku was transferred to Inter Milan, and there the Belgian fully justified the trust.
Alexis Sanchez
The Chilean striker was extremely productive both at Barcelona and at Arsenal – in the winter of 2018 he went to Manchester United in exchange for midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan without additional payments.
José Mourinho’s Armenian did not shine, but the period of Alexis’ career in Manchester was bleak. Over time, the striker became an extremely toxic asset of the Mancunians, he quickly regressed to a rotation player, scored one goal and 4 assists in 20 games in the 2018/19 season.
Such a performance cost the “red devils” 500 thousand pounds a week – Sanchez was the highest paid player at that time Premier League.
At the moment, the 34-year-old striker is not worth even a tenth of his maximum transfer fee, estimated by the player by Transfermarkt. And the fall began with a move to United.
Harry Maguire, 87 million
As for the amount of compensation for the centre-back, Harry has even surpassed van Dijk. But his individual mistakes prove that the United bosses should have offered less.
With the arrivals of Raphael Varane and Lisandro Martinez, Maguire took a seat on the bench. At this point, the most expensive center in history has been on the field in just 7 games. Premier Leagueand only 3 of them are at the start.
