10 Most Expensive Manchester United Transfers Ever

5. Juan Sebastián Verón

Manchester United's Angel Di Maria
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Rating: £28.1m

Signed from Lazio in 2001, the Argentinian was clearly talented, but he simply didn't fit in with the Premier League style of play, and his transfer was another high-priced catastrophe, and a rare miss for Sir Alex Ferguson.

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