‘Why did they buy them?’ - €200m Man Utd flops SLAMMED by Ian Wright

Carlo Garganese

• 5 Mar 2024 10:19 GMT
• 3 min read

Ian Wright has blasted Manchester United for a string of disastrous transfers.

The former Arsenal legend and current football pundit laid in to United for their decision to sign Antony, Mason Mount and Sofyan Amrabat.

All three players have proven to be almighty flops at Old Trafford despite all arriving for extortionate sums.

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Antony arrived from Ajax in 2022 for a fee of €100 million, Mount from Chelsea for €65m, while Amrabat joined on an initial expensive loan for €8.5m with a virtually forced buy option of €25m attached.

The total of the three transfers comes to just under €200m, and Wright can’t believe these deals were sanctioned.

What did Wright say?

“You can’t buy players like Antony and it doesn’t work. Amrabat coming in and it doesn’t work. Why did you buy Mason Mount?,” Wright said.

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“So, you are looking at players they have bought, just those three and you are thinking to yourself ‘who is making those decisions?’

Those things don’t happen at Man City, of course, they don’t. They have an unbelievable management team.”

Antony has still failed to manage a single goal or assist in the Premier League in 2023-24, despite playing as a right sided attacker.

Mount also has no goals or assists and has been hit by injury problems and appears completely incompatible with Bruno Fernandes in the same United team.

Meanwhile, Amrabat has proved a disaster too with a string of errors and Ten Hag even playing him out of his usual central midfield position at left back.

This has all contributed to a terrible 2023-24 campaign for United.

They are down in sixth position, with virtually no hope of qualifying for the Champions League.

United have lost 11 of their 27 Premier League games and have a goal difference of -2.

They went out of the League Cup and were humiliated in the Champions League group stages.

Despite being drawn in one of the weaker groups together with Galatasaray and Copenhagen, they finished bottom of the pool as the Danes and Bayern Munich progressed.

Erik ten Hag is expected to be sacked at the end of the season.