Manchester United have spent a lot of money in the transfer market in recent years but have failed to quite translate that into success on the pitch.
The nine-year fallow period following the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson has often been characterised by some big-name, big-money signings that have failed to live up to their billing.
While that’s undoubtedly been frustrating for the fans, it’s arguably even more annoying to see players that did absolutely nothing at the club go on and shine elsewhere.
We’ve taken a look at 12 players that failed to impress at Old Trafford but went on to enjoy great careers elsewhere.
Alexis Sanchez
Okay, “shone” is probably pushing it a bit, but not even Sanchez’s mum would argue that he did anything whilst in Manchester.
The 33-year-old Chilean will evidently never quite rediscover the form that made him a world-beater at Arsenal, but he became a useful enough player at Inter, featuring alongside fellow United alumni Matteo Darmian, Ashley Young and Romelu Lukaku as they won the Scudetto in 2020-21.
Sanchez notched seven league goals as Antonio Conte broke Juventus’ nine-year stranglehold at the top of Serie A.
Memphis Depay
Depay provided a few flashes of his quality but failed to establish himself as a first-team regular at Old Trafford, scoring just two goals in 33 Premier League appearances.
The forward joined Lyon in January 2017 and started to fulfil his undoubted potential after moving to France, helping the Ligue 1 side reach the Champions League semi-finals in 2019-20. He registered 76 goals and 55 assists for the club before joining Barcelona on a free transfer in the summer of 2021.
Just like with Van Gaal at United, it was his former Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman that brought him to Camp Nou.
While he had an up-and-down time of it at Barcelona last season, he’s shown some real flashes of quality and continues to produce the goods for the Netherlands.
Flourishing under Van Gaal once again, he led Oranje to qualification for the 2022 World Cup, scoring more international goals than any other player in 2021.
Radamel Falcao
The Colombian looked like one of the deadliest strikers in Europe from his prolific time at Porto, Atletico Madrid and early days at Monaco, but by the time he arrived at Van Gaal’s United on loan in September 2014 he looked done as a top-level player after the severe ACL injury that kept him sidelined for over six months.
He scored four Premier League goals…
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