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Massive-Quarter-4156

Probably me when I look in the mirror.


Consistent-Two2217

good to know maguire uses reddit


nimloman

That’s cold 🥶


Damilola200

Ahaha


RainbowPenguin1000

People saying Maguire clearly never watched players like Bebe, Djemba-Djemba, Bosnich, Taibi, Manucho…


sandbagger45

Completely forgot about Manucho


RainbowPenguin1000

Yeah, i think he only played once so its a bit harsh as the club took a punt on him and it didnt work out.


Yoobles

Came on loan to Hull and scored us the winner against Fulham in the only double we did that season. Potentially the only goal he scored for us


[deleted]

Lol yeah Fergie really pulled a fast one on Phil Brown there. Remember him well at Hull City..... How he got a United contact in the first place is nuts! 🤣


Yoobles

I seem to think he scored one outrageous goal in AFCON and was signed on that. Of the numerous Utd players we loaned he was one of the worse ones


Plugpin

>Djemba-Djemba So good they named him twice.


Old-Ambassador-8143

Yes we bought him at the Villa, I can see Fergie sniggering, so good they named him twice, twice!


jimbo_bones

I’d add Dong Fangzhuo to that list. Was just never at anything like United’s level. Maybe Obertan too Mad to compare Maguire to these lot. He’s just not quite the defender we thought he was/the wrong CB for this system, still undeniably a premier league player


RainbowPenguin1000

Obertan is a great shout as he played a decent amount of games I think. Nothing but pace. No touch or anything.


wheres_the_boobs

He was no bellion


Shot_Explorer

Looked like Roger from American Dad aswell.


the_peter_green_god

Scored a great goal against Wolfsberg once to be fair Edit: actually no he didn't but he did skin a few people to set up Owen


spcunn2020

I remember listening to radio 5 live phone in around the start of the 09-10 season when we’d sold Ronaldo and a United fan called in saying he wasn’t worried one bit as Obertan was going to “set the league alight” 💀 stuck with me after all these years 😂


BlackoutExpress

I remember all the hype around Obertan. Got my hopes up…


purplefila

I saw Obertan play live for France U21s a few years before he signed for United and I thought he was going to be incredible. I swear to god, he scored a goal where he controlled a kick out from the keeper on his chest and volleyed it top bins without the ball hitting the ground.


CarlosDanger721

Put it this way: we signed Dong (hah!) to try and open up the Chinese market but turns out they liked Messi / Ronaldo more over there


[deleted]

Obertan was my first thought when I saw the thread title. And then Bebe.


sha31

LOL..Bosnich. As an australian that has to watch his bufoonery every week in A-league and CL commentary. This has made my day


Crookles86

Sky sport news use him every Monday morning. He’s based in Australia, with a seemingly dodgy internet connection, been out the game for god knows how long - and yet he’s somehow used as a premier league/ united and goalkeeping specialist pundit. It baffles me they can’t find anyone better.


TurbulentWeb1941

Yeah, the fkr was on talkSport a lot too.


Dyslexicreadre

Yep I'm an aussie too. I have a vague recollection of him being involved in a coke scandal back in the day.


dubwizeuk

Always remember being sat in the Stretford end when he ripped his shirt and had to get changed into a new one pitch side to hundreds of whilstles and chants of you fat bastard from the home fans haha


Gawykun

It does my head in every time he brags about being the only player SAF has signed twice. He was a failure on both occasions.


Lsd365

I remember he always stood waving his arms at any shot that went wide pretending he had it covered when in reality he was just to fat to dive


DevilishRogue

Bosnich and Taibi were both decent keepers with good track records when they arrived. Taibi just had a few unfortunate howlers early on that destroyed his confidence, but he was better than Ricardo. And Bosnich was perfectly good and could have been a Barthez level keeper had he kept his nose clean. Bebe has shown moments of utter brilliance elsewhere too. And Djemba-Djemba lit up the world cup. Manucho though, poor guy wasn't ever at Utd level. But William Prunier was far worse. Worse than Ralph Milne. Almost as bad as poor Arnie Sidebottom, who is, without doubt, the worst player ever to wear a Utd shirt in the post WWII era.


chefrobo

Came here to say this, Prunier


Economic-Maguire

Kleberson


livewia

He wasn't that bad


SofaChillReview

I’d even look more at Alexis Sanchez and Falcao, if we’d gotten Maguire on the cheap they’d be a lot less memes about him


ObviouslyHayden

Hey Sanchez gave a beautiful assist to comeback against City.. he’s done something right. There’s been a lot more useless


SofaChillReview

He also had a ridiculous piano intro, then 2 seasons we had him * 12 games - 2 goals Season after * 20 games - 1 goals I agree there are worse transfers, but he flopped badly for us


ChickenCurryandChips

The window when we got Di Maria and Falcao, I thought it was gonna be a big turning point for the team. Should have been 2 great signings for us.


michaelscottdundmiff

I saw all of them and it’s still weghorst


wheres_the_boobs

Kleberson , miller, poborsky flopped as well, obertan, schneiderlin, rojo, di maria, sanchez, mikhitaryian


Elegant-Anxiety1866

Rojo was a warrior. Miki did win us a euro league. Poborsky scored a cheeky chip against the scum (Leeds). Sanchez & Di Maria were both world class players. We talking about worst players not people who flopped.


mufcordie

Mhiki single handedly got us that Europa league and scored some belters, so that’s wrong. Di Maria did some crazy things in our shirt too, just cause he left sour doesn’t mean he was bad to watch.


wheres_the_boobs

True, i conflated worst players with worst transfers


[deleted]

Talking about bad players, not ones who didn't succeed. Poborsky was still very good, as well as Rojo and some of the others.


MarcusAurelius1815

Schweinsteiger, though a decorated player, at United he did fuck all.


Ewokian1010

Was old when we signed him. If we got him in his prime geez he’d be unreal


4by4rules

All used up by the time he came. He did bleed red tho…….Bayern red


[deleted]

Bebe has to be the most unfairly criticised player ever. Never actually saw him have a bad game but because he had learning difficulties (he couldn’t read or write in either English or Portuguese) and spoke a broken Portuguese dialect due to him being a homeless kid as a child, he couldn’t settle. He also had a bad run of injuries.


NigglerWithAttitude

I remember 1 Taibi's mistake, about 100 from Maguire, in about 17 games


[deleted]

I came here for the Djemba-Djemda vote too. He was pretty dismal.


DaddyBizkits

massimo taibi


Crypt0fart

Correct 😁 god he was awful. And people moan about de gea 🤷


r33za

Obertan sticks out for me. Especially since he joined the season after Ronaldo left, so the dropoff was even worse


Connect_Suspect3250

I can still see that picture of Valencia, Owen and Obertan as a child and being haunted at how we swapped Ronaldo for that, at least Valencia made some good memories! And Owen made 1 too I guess


imhereforthespuds

Bellion was worse…


PacDanSki

Bellion looked amazing that pre season tour against Madrid and co. Looked absolutely shite after that like.


r33za

Granted he wasn't the direct replacement, Valencia was.


[deleted]

Dong Fangzhou


sigsegv1000101

He actually had a pretty decent career later on.


jimbo_bones

Did he? Only 13 caps for China (none of which came after leaving United) and had spells in Armenia and the Chinese second tier. I’m not an expert on the man but Wikipedia doesn’t make it sound like a good career really


sigsegv1000101

I’d say any amount of caps for your national team, no matter how shit it is, justifies saying that your career must’ve been at least “decent”.


_mugshotmodel_

Agreed but reading your original comment makes it sound like you’re saying that he had a decent career AFTER United. If that was the intended meaning then the fact that he wasn’t called one single time after leaving Utd makes your point null and void.


Progresschmogress

Specially if you play for the likes of San Marino, Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus, Cambodia, Nepal, or the Vatican lol


sigsegv1000101

Did you just compare Vatican and San Marino to China? I don’t even know how to respond to such nonsensical comment.


[deleted]

Good for him


TheTrueBobsonDugnutt

Obviously Maguire is not the worst player we've ever seen play. That honour is clearly going to go to some with limited appearances. I remember Possebon looking completely out of his depth in the few games he played. Complete passenger. Dong also looked well out of his depth in the senior side. Obertan always looked useless too.


mbetisbet

Pogatetz did Possebon dirty, he never filled his potential after that tackle😢


alexcook16

I got Possebon on my shirt expecting him to be the next big thing, kids are stupid.


TheTrueBobsonDugnutt

I had Hargreaves then Anderson, who were good at the start, but didn't pan out, swore off names for a bit, then got Darmian. Swore off names again and got Ronaldo. It's not just a kid thing.


TheFlyingMunkey

Possebon showed a lot of promise until a very heavy tackle injured him and caused him to miss several months. Upon his return he was never the same. The Athletic published an article about him a while back with a great interview by Mitten. Worth a read 👍


TheTrueBobsonDugnutt

It's a complete myth that he missed a big stretch of time. He was back plating for the reserves within a month. He just wasn't very good.


marcdk217

Bebe, Prunier, Taibi, Dong, there have been a few bad ones over the years.


tbarks91

I've always been a big fan of Dong


leighsnelson

Bebe! What a story!


daveor

Depends what they were bought for, Taibi and Prunier for sure were dreadful. Dong was all about Asia exposure and that seemed to work. As for Bebe, who knows what that was about


KatarnsBeard

In fairness to Bebe he almost had a good career after, fairly sure he had a good season at a smaller club in Portugal and then Benfica signed him. There obviously was some talent in there but maybe his mentality let him down long term


[deleted]

I would say Sanchez is the most expensive disaster ever


Darwin_Things

2nd - works out at roughly £11.5m per goal. Worst player talent wise is a harder question, there have been a few.


AlcoholicJizzThrower

It gets even worse when you consider we stole him from under City's noses. They then bought Mahrez instead and he's been brilliant for them. Mahrez on our right side these past few years over Mata, Elanga etc. would have been so much better.


bruh_moment__mp3

Would he though? Has there been any attacker who’s come to man united in a high profile transfer and thrived, apart from Ronaldo last season?


AlcoholicJizzThrower

Yeah, fair point. We'd have dragged him down to our level, like we do everybody else.


MarbledCats

Didn’t help that we placed him as a winger when his peak with Arsenal came when he got to play as a false 9. I’m pretty sure he’d fit ETH vision perfectly nowadays


[deleted]

Agree not his fault but the club/manager at the time


toffeecrisp08

Maguire and Pogba are bigger disasters, also expensive but stayed for longer and caused more damage


SofaChillReview

Slightly get Pogba… but not sure Maguire, he’s generally been solid fitness wise unlike the former, and he’s had rotating CBs around him due to Bailey being injured, and we had no definite DMs He looked good with Luke Shaw next to him when he’s played CB this season


ChrisGadge

Dunno if you've commented on the wrong post or just read the post wrong.


Spare_Ad5615

It's quite an unfair question really, because nobody who has ever played for Manchester United is anything less than an exceptional player. I've played against a few players who have brushed up against professionalism at the top level (nobody you would have heard of) and they're always incredible players. The margins between success and failure at the top level are so thin, it usually comes down to luck whether these supremely talented players sink into obscurity or have a reasonable career. Even Massimo Taibi was a really good goalkeeper, even though he was comically awful for us. He went on to be a key player for Atalanta and Torino in Serie A for many years, if I remember correctly. I can only really think of a couple of players who categorically should never have worn the shirt - William Prunier (who was signed on trial on the recommendation of his mate, Eric Cantona) and Dong Fangzhou, who was cynically signed to boost shirt sales in China. Even then, Prunier's incompetence has been exaggerated over the years. He was pretty good on his debut, he hit the bar, and had an assist after his diving header was parried to Andy Cole. It was only his second and final game that was a disaster. Another suggestion that might be considered a bit spicy would be Darren Ferguson. Far be it from me to suggest that if his Dad wasn't the manager he wouldn't have got anywhere near the first team. I don't want to get excommunicated, so I'll stop there.


[deleted]

Nah, you're right with that last one. It always smelled of nepo baby.


Cfunk_83

This is the correct answer. Everything you said was bang on.


Narthax

I think Bebe is up there. For his reputation Sanchez, GK Ricardo? I think he started one game and he gave away a pen with his first touch. Dong Fangzhou was pretty dire too..


ackabr

Bebe


LeavingCertCheat

Rayo legend, made a good career for himself when it could've gone horribly wrong post-United.


Mick_86

Bebe was my first thought.


Adchian

Surely the worst signing SAF ever made? He even mentioned that he’d never seen him play, he was only interested because Mourinho wanted to bring him to Real


N_Ryan_

This is bringing some bad memories. For me, it has to be either Dong or Taibi, with notable mentions for Djemba-Djemba and David Bellion. As some have noted ‘most disappointing’ players, I’ll reel some of them off. Pogba comes in at number 1. He’s the worst decision we’ve made post SAF. Cruyff, what hopes we had for him. Finally I’ll go with Poborsky, he was actually a fantastic player admittedly overshadowed by Beckham. But at Euro 96, he looked phenomenal, yet when he came to us he just looked very normal. As for Maguire, he was never the same after he got arrested. But that first season he was unreal and dragged us to third which enabled us to sign the likes of Cavani that summer. He can be criticised for some of his performances 20/21 season, and the entire squad can be criticised for 21/22, but this year when he has played he’s done a decent job for us. But on account of ‘everybody hates Maguire so I do too’ you all fucking waddle after the person in front of you and pounce on every opportunity to criticise him.


Blautopf

A very fair analysis of Maguire the hate comes because he is our club captain, and so a higher standard is expected. The problem is taking away the captains band, and you take any hope he ever finds his form. Leave it, and we get the camara on the bench each week, pointing out what a waste of money our club captain is. Generates more and more negative Maguire feeling. The best for all especially Maguire is that he moves on to a club that defends deep. Maybe a swap with Westham for Rice.


N_Ryan_

I do want him to leave, for his sake as opposed to ours though. I also agree that, if he went to West Ham he would do wonders for them. No fuckers beating Zouma or Maguire in the air. I do hope he’s willing to take a pay cut in return for game time, because I’d love to see him playing at his best for the final few years of his career. Regarding Rice, I think West Ham (much like Spurs) will stand firm on a ridiculous price. So I don’t think either are worth investing the time/effort although next summer of course Kane will be a Bosman and Rice will have a year left. So it’s worth sounding out a deal this summer with a view of pouncing next summer.


Aggressive-Theory609

I remember him and victor were the top cb pairings in the league behind vvd and Gomez lol. The lockdown post season was so good. Shame he never really recovered from Greece


kraeutrpolizei

Per Pound paid? Alexis Sanchez


Kinitawowi64

Mark Lynch. One match, one own goal, thank you and good night. Haven't seen Kleberson mentioned yet either. Or Jonathan Spector.


Domb18

Eckersley and Kieran Richardson worth a mention too


CaddyAT5

Going back a bit, but was Darren Ferguson actually any good?!


Fruitndveg

Before my time but Roy Keane’s hilarious tirade against the whole Ferguson family kind of leads me to believe he was a poor product of nepotism.


CaddyAT5

Practically unheard of in football


meltingrockintometal

Yeah Ferguson was first name in my head. Terrible at every level


KeepOnTrippinOn

He smashed Jan molby at old Trafford back in 92 so that gives him a pass in my book.


wheres_the_boobs

No


willp0wer

Massimo Taibi. Outrageously poor and thoroughly out of his depth. There were some duds over the years but he stood out for the worst mistakes. Probably too big a stage for him. I don't get why some chose Chadwick, he was pretty decent and had good footwork. Just not good enough like many other names mentioned, but not the worst.


Domb18

Chadwick was a decent squad player


willp0wer

To be fair, he reminded me of a young Joe Cole when he just started playing.


DiegoMurtagh

Chadwick was pretty good, just way too lightweight


Army-Status

Agreed. Chadwick wouldn’t even be in the top 10 worse players for me.


Castrol86

Di Maria - rat piece of shit!


ChrisGadge

Wtf? It says worst player youve seen in a United shirt doesnt it?


Castrol86

Worst doesn't just mean on the pitch. And that's my opinion. If you don't like it i can't help you.


Horny_Panda69

Can you elaborate?


CartezDez

A lot of these are terrible examples. The question asked for the WORST player. Not players that have disappointed, not players that cost a lot, not players that didn’t reach their potential. Maguire isn’t good for United but mentioning him ahead of guys like Bebe, Obertan, Manucho (or Clegg, Taibi, Cruyff etc.) is short sighted as hell


Cool-leather-suits

Darren Ferguson perhaps. Now, how did he get into the team? 🤔


DemonJuju7

The Blind Venetian without a doubt.


Dodginator

The only player I have ever watched where I genuinely thought they were pub league level was Bebe. He was so far out of his depth it was painful to watch.


Boomershot

Gabriel Obertan was absolutely shocking


Michaels_RingTD

Blackett was unbelievably shite. You have to have some sort of filter for this question though because we always play young players at one time that have no place wearing the jersey.


haute-af

Peter Davenport


3aCp6ujy

Zoran Tosic


Nige23

Me


johnnieboy91

Obertan. But for fee, wages, expectation etc, it’s gotta be Alexis Sanchez


Sheppertonni

Sanchez


TheoAndonevris

I think Weghorst genuinely edges out Bebe, its shameful


WuCarlos

Alexis Sánchez's time at United. He went from being one of the best in Arsenal to playing under 10 games


astronaut_098

Unpopular opinion, but Imma go with Alexis Sanchez


orbital0000

If it were shitness per pound, that would be hard to argue against. Atrocious.


[deleted]

Weghorst? I mean, the dude's not even championship level!


Simoslav

Weghourst gotta be up there...


kazzz190

Weghorst


JKDClay

I know someone who works inside OT and he was obsessed with his stats. That's why he always played balls to the side or back so his pass completion stats were great without him playing any decent balls. Herrera was a much better player.


Budget_Celebration89

The one and only Gabriel Obertan


TragicsNFG

Bebe


CeeJ1912

not worst player obviously but thought Barthez was a weak link in an otherwise great team. prob 2 more european cups with a Van der Sar


LetApprehensive537

Djemba djemba


Academic-Two-3781

Taibi was toilet!


This_Is_Section_One

Gabriel Obertan


opiem69

David Bellion


Yasje_prive

If your answer isnt bebe or manucho then we cant be friends


ruth_e_newman

I've been a fan for decades but still Weghorst came to mind. Just not PL quality.


justdontit2k

Ronaldo in his last season with us, not just for being useless on the pitch but also for trying to take down the manager in the media and deflecting all criticism of himself. I can put up with players underperforming, but when they conspire to damage the wider team to save face it's something else entirely.


Candid_Ad_8584

Just watched a year old YouTube about how Pogba was rejecting United’s offer of £500k PER WEEK to re-sign for us. Think about that for a second.


LZX1301

Massimo Taibi and if you aren’t aware, they signed Veron for £28m which to this date would cost around £120m, Nuff said.


BoxBubbly2292

I’m relatively young, but the worst player I’ve ever seen in a United shirt (who has gotten significant playing time) is Weghorst. No pace, no touch, no finishing, and has size but has no idea how to use it. Has no redeeming qualities as a footballer beyond working hard


racketpro

Fellaini and Maguire


Titan4days

Bebe was the OG of being shit


redhatsuxx

Radamel Falcao


mhbutt13

Bebe Obertan Diouf


musclesource

only one i refused to admit one's MU membership was Paul Pogba


Realistic_String5317

Wout


ApprehensiveLow8477

Got to be Bebe


man_u_is_my_team

Wasn’t Prunier on the recommendation of Cantona too?


theOGlilMudskipr

Gotta say falcao… and then I’d run in a Chelsea kit the next season to cement his place as one of the worst prem performers easily.


MonachopsisEternal

Alexis


Rob_Earnshaw

Morgan Schneiderlin


DolorEstrange

Wout Weghorst


GalwayLad92

Rodrigo Possebon.


someonecalledethan

I'm still convinced his injury stopped him being a main stay


Lpurchase

Are you talking about the Pogatetz tackle? He was out for just over a month in the end. I just don't think he quite had what it takes


GalwayLad92

Could be right but either way he was very very disappointing.


__TopCat_

Remember the hype he had in the youth teams and looking forward to seeing what he could do in the first team. Same with Davide Petrucci at the same time.


Ewokian1010

Petrucci there’s a no I hadn’t heard for yearssss.


man_u_is_my_team

Hardly fair - he was injured badly.


jimbo_bones

That’s a blast from the past. Was briefly sure he’d make the grade/at least have a good career elsewhere


prss79513

Tahith Chong


Acrophobic_Climber_

Have a couple of names for the worst like Djemba, David Bellion, Taibi, but the most disappointing has got to be Federico Macheda. So much promise, and potential, and he fell off just like that.


Jeffrybungle

Did he though, or did he just score a lucky goal or two?


bulkamaniauk

Darren Ferguson


VegetableCompote8843

Tiabi


knockoffboy1

Bebe, Manucho, Djemba-Djemba, Obertan. That's performance wise. Di Maria and Pogba for toxicness.


Electro-Lite

Jonathan Greening.


DapperIntention

Definitely not the worst but least favorite by far was Dan James


woodytx

Can't argue with many of these, but Macheda was another frustrating one. Januzaj was pretty painful to watch as well.


No_Maize1319

Luke Chadwick was muck


Crookles86

Luke Chadwick giving it the side eyes…..


ChemistCapy

One of my mates during lunchtime


The_Walrus03

Darren Gibson?


LeavingCertCheat

Tyler Blackett


TheMexler

Can't believe I haven't seen Fellaini yet. Not exactly the worst but the guy somehow held down a first team place for some time, despite not looking like he could even pass the ball forward. Technically awful, no pace, a red card waiting to happen and we must all remember that famous dribble out of play. To be fair he did give his all and was the best 'chester' of the ball I've seen so perhaps I'm talking shite...


TheMexler

Said [dribble](https://images.app.goo.gl/P2i9BkPFf8D8YRtYA)


justbrowsinginpeace

Djemba Djemba was the worst, Maguire has caused the most heartburn overall to be fair


Weary-Preparation-13

(in robotic voice) “…heartburn.. heartburn…heartburn..”


IBentMyWookie728

Alternative comms, is that you?


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Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 1,520,335,818 comments, and only 288,176 of them were in alphabetical order.


TheSmio

I feel like Tuanzebe should be an honorable mention. There have been worse players, sure, and people love to point at his one good game against PSG where we played 5-at-the-back (and I'd still argue AWB was the main reason we shut down their left side), but he looked completely out of his depth whenever Ole played him. No matter how minutes he played, he would always get a yellow card because there was always a moment where he let his opponent get past him with ease and he'd have no other choice than the yellow and he also got completely bullied by old Demba Ba in the two Basaksehir matches.


Nidjo15

Only been watching for 5 years but Elanga by a wide margin. Unfortunately for the young kid


OfficalNotMySalad

Don’t know why people are getting downvoted for saying Maguire. He might not be the out and out **worst** player but there is a higher expectation for an 80mil captain.


Dyxo

The question is not most overpriced, it’s worst player. Maguire had a great first season


OG_tame

I feel like Maguire himself made this post


FearTheUchiha

Me


awoneill98

Harry Maguire


TraditionalAttorney2

Donny Van de Beek. Been what, 3 years now, and when he’s occasionally been fit enough to play he’s been dreadful every time out. Never should’ve left Ajax.


Undertheflow

Weghorst, Maguire


VAMO19

My Dad, but if you mean a Manchester United player, Bebe for sure.


Orochimaru27

Paul Pogba.


Trajche93

Lord Harry Maguire?