that were available.
Hazard
Apparently we were in pole position for him and pulled out over agent fees. Big mistake. Went on to be one of the PL’s best players of the last decade or so.
Silva and Aguero
Both went to City at a time that we still had more pulling power than them. It was at the time SAF was complaining that there was no value in the market even though a year or 2 prior he had bought Berbatov for more than Silva cost and around the same as Aguero cost. The decline would not have been so steep post SAF if we had those two.
Zlatan (in 2010)
Should have signed him from Barca. Went on loan to Milan in 2010 with an option to buy for €24 million. Again cheaper than Berbatov and 3 times the player. Should have binned him and went for Zlatan. We’d probably have at least one more title if we’d done that.
Any more that you guys can think of?
Players we should have signed
posted on 12/8/20
The few that got away at UTD are incomparable to the 60+ world class players that Wenger was scouting before they slipped through his fingers... including ronaldo and messi
posted on 12/8/20
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 19 minutes ago
Ji
Agree with Robben.
I think we probably dodged a bullet with Sneijder though. His career sort of nose dived after getting lost at Carrington.
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Sancho probably end up in league 2 now
posted on 12/8/20
comment by rosso - for your protection, we’ve installed this camera (U17054)
posted 38 minutes ago
Imagine getting to see Silva and Scholes playing together
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Robben Carrick Scholes Ronaldo
Rooney Tevez
That should have been our team at one stage.
posted on 12/8/20
comment by Ji Sung Park's Cousin - Ole's joy Manticore (U2958)
posted 46 minutes ago
We should have got at least Robben when Ronaldo went to Madrid, maybe Sneijder too.
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I'm pretty sure we signed Sneijder loads of times.
I have never followed transfer news.
posted on 12/8/20
hazard is a strange one. We all knew he was worldclass for about 3 years when he was at lille. The question was whether he was going to real/barca. Surprisingly that summer neither was in for him utd should have had a clear run.
Unfortunately, it coincided with utd trying to make a stand against agents and it cost us. While I understand the stance it definitely was not worth losing such a player especially when you consider the types of business we did subsequently.
posted on 12/8/20
comment by Picasso (U21397)
posted 2 hours, 14 minutes ago
Zinedine zidane was recommended to fergie by Eric Cantona when he was young and undiscovered. Fergi said he wouldn’t know where to play him in that current side.
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There's a story that Zidane was offered to Blackburn but Jack Walker concluded 'why would we sign him when we already have Tim Sherwood?'
Who cares if that's apocryphal, I'm choosing to believe it.
posted on 12/8/20
comment by rosso - for your protection, we’ve installed this camera (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
Imagine getting to see Silva and Scholes playing together
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On the flipside, if we'd signed Silva, we might never have seen Tom Cleverley in action.
posted on 12/8/20
Darren
But tbf no one knew Ferguson was gonna leave a year later, not even Ferguson.
posted on 12/8/20
Raphael Varane in the summer of 2011.
Still, we got Phil Jones. So all's well that ends well...
posted on 12/8/20
Ronaldinho to Manchester United, but then we would not have got Cristiano Ronaldo.