Transfer window deadline day. For Manchester United fans, it promised so much and delivered so little. "Silly season" is over again for another four months and the dust has settled following a crazy 24 hours that saw Premier League clubs set new spending records. In total, £140 million was spent on deadline day in England, and United's outlay on players accounted for only £27.5 million of that. By contrast, Arsenal spent £42.4 million on Mesut Ozil, while the Red Devils were completely blown out of the water in fiscal terms earlier in the window as Tottenham spent over £100 million Manchester City £90 million and Chelsea £66 million. That really puts into perspective just how disappointing United's summer has been as the champions were left behind by their main title competitors. While City have signed Alvaro Negredo, Stevan Jovetic, Fernandinho, Jesus Navas and Martin Demichelis, the Red Devils signed Guillermo Varela and Marouane Fellaini. Where did it all go wrong? The finger of blame must be pointed at United's new Executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward - a David Gill he ain't - but mostly at new manager David Moyes. The Scotsman failed spectacularly in this summer's window, and here, we perform the autopsy on his dismal transfer dealings at Old Trafford.
Joseph is an accredited football journalist and has interviewed nearly all of the current 20 Barclay's Premier League managers. He is also a correspondent for Bleacher Report and has written for Caught Offside and Give Me Football.
