grange_end1927 wrote:Leyston mate, just searched Frgie made dozens of mistakes in transfers costing f*cking mills, just one of many
JUAN SEBASTIAN VERON
When United paid £28 million to bring in Veron from Lazio in 2001, it broke the British transfer record.
He had won a league and Coppa Italia double with the Italian club in 2000 and had a big reputation, but he turned out to be a flop, with the speed of the game in England proving too fast for the Argentine.
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Ferguson defended Veron in front of journalists. “He [Veron] is a f**king great player,” said Ferguson in 2002. “And you're all f**king idiots.”
Veron, though, was sold to Chelsea in 2003 for a relatively cut-price £15 million, right after United won the Premier League.
The Times listed him as one of both Chelsea and Manchester United’s 50 worst Premier League signings.
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I have mentioned the Veron Transfer saga on here before but the Malky haters still think because he made one bad transfer deal he his a crap manager yet even great provem managers like Ferguson and many others all buy ponies now and again,