Manchester United have not been very good at making marquee signings in recent years.
United have been the most active club in Europe when it comes to spending money over the past decade. A damning recent report by the CIES Football Observatory found they had spent £1.3billion over the past 10 years while bringing in £397million in sales to give them a whopping negative net spend of £908m. They don’t have an awful lot to show for that expenditure.
The club are about to finish their fifth consecutive season without any silverware. They are sixth in the Premier League – and could still finish seventh to earn an unwanted place in the Europa Conference League next season, if West Ham win their final two matches. And that is despite spending £73m last summer to sign Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund.
