15 Worst Ever Man Utd Premier League Signings

4. William Prunier

This French centre-half is another one of those players who you may have forgotten all about. Either that or he€™s one of those players remembered infamously. Bizarrely, Prunier never actually signed a permanent deal at Manchester United, instead arriving for a trial period in 1995. His stock was seemingly good, having played in the same famous Auxerre youth team as Eric Cantona, Basile Boli and Daniel Dutuel. He had even won a cap for his national team and had gone on to play for French giants Marseille. Alex Ferguson was on the lookout for a ball-playing, continental central defender in 1995 and took Prunier on trial with the view to assessing him in some reserve games. Disaster struck when Steve Bruce, Gary Pallister and even photobomber extraordinaire David May were all hit with injures. As such, Prunier would be thrown in at the deep end and given a start alongside a young Gary Neville against QPR. Prunier€™s debut would actually be well-received, with him getting an assist and hitting the crossbar as United won 2-1. Where it all went wrong was the following game, a 4-1 demolishing at the hands of Tottenham Hotspur. The already short United backline saw Denis Irwin and Peter Schmeichel ruled out of this fixture, and United got a tonking of legendary proportions, with Prunier made a scapegoat. Prunier would never play for United again and regularly comes up in conversations about the club€™s worst ever players. As it happens, Ferguson actually offered to extend the Frenchman€™s trial after the Spurs defeat, but Prunier declined and left Old Trafford after just 2 games. After departing the Theatre of Dreams, Prunier would play in Denmark, France, Italy, Scotland, Belgian, and even Qatar before retiring in 2004. He currently manages French amateur team Colomiers and apparently has regular nightmares about Chris Armstrong.