Six great players the Glazers refused to pay the money for at Man Utd

The unrest that Manchester United supporters feel towards the Glazer family’s ownership of the club goes far beyond their record in the transfer market, but there are still plenty of questions to be asked regarding that department.

United fans have regularly criticised the ‘Glazernomics’ model of running the club, with serious complaints about the club’s debt and lack of infrastructure spending. While there has been investment in top talent like Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes, the club have missed out on some great players due to their reluctance to spend big.

We’ve looked at six of the best players the Glazers didn’t sign due to financial reasons. Note: we’ve not included players who rejected a move to the club.

Spain’s all-time top scorer spent his peak years at Valencia, and despite being a goal machine for club and country, he remained at Mestalla for five seasons.

“Ferguson is a long-time admirer of the 28-year-old but Valencia want around £35million to £40million and United’s position is that the fee will have to be lowered otherwise it will be financially prohibitive at a time when the club has accrued debts in excess of £700million,” Daniel Taylor wrote in The Guardian in 2010. 

“This is despite Ferguson’s repeated insistence that the balance from the £80million sale of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid last summer is available, United having already spent £20million.”

Villa eventually joined Barcelona instead and scored against United at Wembley in the 2011 Champions League final.

David Villa wraps up the 2011 Champions League final pic.twitter.com/Sgz4eKQNY2

— GOAL (@goal) May 29, 2020

After being deemed surplus to requirements by Real Madrid, Sneijder joined Inter Milan in 2009 and became one of the best