Every Premier League Man Utd No.7 Ranked Worst To Best

8. Alexis Sanchez

The worst transfer in Manchester United, and perhaps even Premier League, history, Sanchez swapped Arsenal for United in January 2018, with Henrikh Mkhitaryan going the other way, in what seemed like a real coup for then-manager Jose Mourinho.

Sanchez at the time was one of the best players in the league and highly sought after by United’s closest rivals, Manchester City, before the Red Devils swooped in for the Chilean forward. Signing a four-and-a-half-year contract worth a reported £500,000-a-week and wearing the iconic seven shirt, Sanchez was widely expected to propel United to glory.

He didn’t.

He arrived in Manchester a shadow of his former self, seemed unable to remember how to play football and was consistently unfit. So far, he has scored a pathetic five goals in 45 appearances across all competitions. At the start of the 2019/20 season he was deemed surplus to requirements and loaned out to Inter Milan, with United still paying a large portion of his ridiculous wages.

Of course, he may still return to England, recapture his former world class form and fight his way back into Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team. But you shouldn’t count on it.