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Samuel Luckhurst & Richard Fay & Daniel Murphy

Ronaldo up, Maguire down - where Gary Neville went wrong with Manchester United transfer gradings

It's been a terrible decade for Manchester United and Gary Neville made it clear just how bad it's been when he broke down the club's horrendous success rate in the transfer window since 2013 on Monday.

While dissecting yet another humiliating United performance, after they were humbled 4-0 by Brentford on Saturday, Neville and Jamie Carragher analysed all the signings the club has made since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. While Ferguson by no means had a 100 per cent hit-rate in the market, he certainly recruited more successes than failures which hasn't been the case for the club since he left the hot seat.

Not including this summer's additions of Tyrell Malacia, Christian Eriksen and Lisandro Martinez, Neville put the other 33 permanent signings United have made over the last nine years into one of three categories: green for success, amber for okay and red for failure. Only two players made it into the green, while an astonishing 24 were in the red.

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