To me, Veron's signing was the first time that I realized an amazing player joining an amazing team won't always work. At the end of the day, it was hard to break the Scholes/Keane partnership, but what a baller Veron was ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

Still wanting that "Thats what I call Concacaf" series

Seeing some of these transfer fees just goes to show how much inflation has changed football. Nowadays, a lot of fairly average players cost nearly or over £50m.

Just to add a bit to Veron's quality: When older he went back to his childhood club Estudiantes in Argentina but he was still so good and relevant he helped them win a Copa Libertadores and even had a great match in the Club World Cup against peak Barcelona in 2009 when he was 34. He then served as president of the club for 6 years I think, including the recent pandemic. Estudiantes has had success in the past but is historically a mid table club, so Veron making then win a Libertadores is like Beckham going to a club like Everton at 32 and making them reach a Champions League Final

I really like Bebe's story, not because he was a "nobody" when United signed him but because he was in one of the worst possible situations a child can find themselves in. To make it from an orphanage to being a regular at a professional football club is insane and I hope the kids in these institutions look up to him.

A documentary on the rise of AFC Wimbledon and the nine promotions in eleven years. How the club are fan owned and that they have a stadium now.

I was at bebe debut (if I remember correctly) against wolves we won 2/1 Park last double, last minute winner, Hargreaves came back from injury then got injured again, anyway bebe came on, over hit every single cross and pass, then got taken off around 30 minutes after.

we need a story of "the forgotten 1996 ballon d'or winner" Matthias Sammer ASAP

Still hoping for a "What on Earth is Going on at Sunderland? Sunderland til I die showed our relegation to league one and failed attempt to get promoted back to the Championship, but a detailed look at the Premier League years before our relegation would be great, also looking at how things went after STID. The amount of bad luck and awful decisions and from board level down to the pitch is staggering. In the Ellis Short era, and then the Stewart Donald era. -England losing against Iceland essentially resulting in us losing Allardyce, a great manager for us at the time, only for him to be sacked by England after 1 game. -At one point having the 6th highest wage bill in the Premier League with nothing really to show for it. -The purchase of Ricky Alvarez, not playing him, trying to back out of signing him, losing a lawsuit to Inter Milan and still suffering financial implications to this day. -Signing the appalling Jack Rodwell and being financially crippled for years again -Signing a completely past it Emmanuel Eboue who was then released 3 weeks later as he was banned from football for unpaid agent debts -Playing Adam Johnson when the execs knew he was under investigation for sexual activity with a child. -Well known drinking culture among players, general poor professionalism. -Darron Gibson getting arrested for drink driving after a car crash. Gibson also filmed on social media off his tits bad mouthing the team and manager whilst still a player. -Letting our top scorer leave in January in our Championship relegation season -Selling our top scorer in January in our first League 1 promotion push -Replacing him with Will Grigg for 3 million quid on a league 1 budget because our owner at the time wanted to be a big shot. Grigg was a failure since and never even wanted to come. -Losing twice at Wembley in League 1 including in the playoff final in the 95th minute. -Missing out on the playoffs after the season was cancelled due to COVID -Losing again in the playoffs last season -Losing last season's top scorer with 30 goals (Wyke) and our Captain (Power) to Wigan for free in the summer. We've made a solid start to this season and made some decent signings under our new owner, but the whole story of the last 10 years is an absolute car crash worth a deep dive.

Problem with advanced flair players like Veron and countryman Juan Roman Riquelme is that they are amazing with the ball at their feet. When the rest of the team is good enough to bypass the player by making chances of their own, they become essentially ineffective. This is usually something the deep lying playmaker types like Xavi and Pirlo do better at, because they have far more room and time to pick a pass.

Best player who was relegated from the premier league every season since 92'

Hey Alfie! Paranaense supporter here. Our club went through a redesign in late 2018, and since the we have a new emblem, different from the one you used in the thumbnail. Also, it is a fairly big joke among our supporters the joint announcement of Kleberson and CR7!

Could you make an outside case for Jones? He can't be blamed for his injuries but the fact the club have had him contracted for almost if not a decade now the loss in wages to performance must be horrific

Ralph Milne, an alcoholic, ended up working in a pub after retiring. Such a sad state of affairs.

Christ, I'm going to comment on every player. I must be the only United fan to get "Tosic 14" on a shirt... I've still got it but will never wear it in public 😂

Phil Jones should be seriously considered for this list. I know he's helped them win a couple trophies but he cost £17mil back when that was a hell of a lot and you then have to consider how they've basically been paying him to not play for like 5 years now. He signed for United the same week Liverpool signed Henderso and Henderson has played 177 games more in that time. And bare in mind Henderson has had some real injury problems himself

Good video. Nostalgia overload

A mention for Dong Fangzhou (who was ineligible to play for MUFC for three years because of work permit issues), who made one league appearance, and was basically a desperate attempt to increase the club's appeal in China. This excellent (as usual) cast has a theme of good players who just couldn't adapt to the PL, plus Ferguson's bias towards players who had one or two excellent performances against United

Djemba-Djemba played on the French 5 tier not the Swiss. Great video as usual👍

15:24 - is that...no, it can't be! He's never been...well, he must have been once upon a time...is that a young Claudio Ranieri?!

Veron was a success look at his performances in Europe, he ran games. Utd gave Juventus a footballing lesson at the Stadio Deli Alpi on 2003 with Veron running the show

Yeah!! We love Bebe at Vallecas. Maybe not United level but a great player for our club for many years. And for now you are right we are above Barcelona on the table.

Honestly dude, your journalism is brilliant, but, your occasional banger of a joke is a fucking quality, thanks for for the info and the laughs!

Veron just wasn’t suited to English football because everywhere else he was world class

Veron had some really good games for us, occasionaly you'd see what he was possible of, but nobody takes Scholes's spot in the united team of the 2000's.

Next : Jurgen Klopp worst signings of all time

Djemba Djemba, so good they named him twice 😂

Oh Juan Sebastian Veron. I remember him because that was the first full season I watched the premier league.

I have to disagree with you on your assesment of Veron. IMO his time at United is misunderstood by people who did not watch those seasons closely. His first season was a mixed bag - Our biggest issue that year, however, was selling Stam so Verons form coincided with the team just not being solid enough. His second season however, not only in the UCL in which he was (along with RVN) genuinely United's best player, he really picked up form in the Prem. He ran the show vs Arsenal and Chelsea and was really picking up to the pace of the Prem around xmas that year. If I remember correctly he got injured vs Leeds and although Ferguson put him back in the team over Beckham vs Real Madrid in the QTR final - he never regained his fitness nor his place in the team. In any case, if you watch the games he played I really don't see how he can be considered bad. Did he live up to his massive expectation? No, maybe not. But I still would not consider him a terrible signing and without his contribution to United in the 03 season I really think they would not have won the title. Injury and circumstance shortened his career at United. I think it was a mistake selling him to Chelsea.

Talking about EPL football managers and others, have you found the BBC podcast from BBC Scotland called "Sacked in the Morning".

The tragic death of that former Manchester United player really made me to be in tears even though,he was not the best signing for them but a nice footballer nonetheless,good friends!!!:'(

I wanted to make an Adam Johnson joke, but I feel as though it'd be a little old, unlike his taste in women

Inflation has changed a lot over the years

Mark Bosnich? He was signed to replace SchmeicheL Tiabi was signed as he wasn't up to the job.

Bebe's story is great, he went from being abandoned by his parents as a child to being at a profession and a football club that put an arm around his shoulder.

Forlan was pretty good

Alfie, can you please do Sam Allardyce's 7 best and worst signings?

Next do Wenger's best/worst signings?

“A bit Yikes” needs to make more appearances

Eric Djemba-Djemba should have been No:1

Day 5: Who would win modern day West vs East Germany

If any of you wonder, what kind of player Veron was at his best, just think of Jorginho, but much much more talented.

Respect to Verón elsewhere but Manchester United;however the plan was for him to replace Roy Keane (quite a task ). Keane with half his legs lead captained that team to 5? more titles. Think Keane is one of the most underrated players of all time along Claude Makelele. ✌️

7 best players in porto who won 🏆in 2004

Commenting before watching. Massimo Taibi.

Rodrigo Possebon....need I say more

Taibi was a bit of a car crash at United but was a good gloveman, ask anyone who was into Italian football back in the day. He genuinely was one of the best 3-4 Italian keepers over several seasons, hence United (like AC Milan before) paying serious money for him in the first place. Can't help but wonder if he'd been given a few months to acclimatise and learn fluent English, could it have ended differently.

Thomas tuchel best xi of all time

I don't think it's accurate to say Utd we're not big spenders prior to 2000. Their 1990 FA Cup winning squad was the most expensively assembled squad in history at the time. They regularly broke transfer records with likes of Hughes and Ince and Keane and Cole etc. Money wasn't the problem for Utd prior to '93.

Oh come on worst signings where was the signing of the 45 year old scottish keeper in Andy Goram or burger boy mark bosnic

Top premier league scorer over the age of 35 every season. Sure Kevin Phillips will top that league

Kleberson's story is a bit "what the fuck"...

Even the Goat of managers can make mistakes

Respect to Bebe

Arsene wengers worst 7 signings, should be a challenge considering he signed a number of duds

What do you mean liam miller as an honourable mention??

Thanks!

Veron was there one season…he was good. Anderson was there maybe a few years to long, but those first 2-3 years, he was amaszing.

Day 5: Best non-FIFA affiliated ant, teams eg I’ve had Martinique are quite good

I remember Sjemba Djemba and Liam Miller from the danish league they were both relatively sucessfull allthough Miller was only on loan (alonside Scott Sellars from Bolton) with AGF in Aarhus RIP Liam Miller

Day 2: 7 best individual prem performances in a season, that didn’t win him the POTY award.

Can yo make a video on if a 48 team WC every 2 years would actually help the growth of the game in Africa and Asia , as FIFA claims it would ?( regardless of whether you like the idea or not)

Can you do an episode of the seven worst signings made by my Sunday league footy manager?

The veron signing worked. Both Keane and Scholes upped their game to keep their place in the squad

i would like to see a list like "best english players that thrived outside UK"

Bebe come outside, we just want to talk 🤣

Just realized Ruud looks like Jerry Seinfeld

Hm, no Dion Dublin? And I am a fan of Dion's too, but he didn't fit at Man U (old-fashioned battering ram forwards haven't worked there since the time of Matt Busby!)

Kleberson.lol. looked Dynamite at 2002 World Cup,HILARIOUS he was so bad at Utd.

In honour of Davies’ beauty of a goal against Panama, the seven hardest working goals since 2000.

In defence of Kleberson for the discussion at least. £6.5mil (£10.5 in todays money) for a World Cup winner - who started in the final - isn't too bad. Plus they got near 50% of their fee back after 2 years so all in all not too bad a punt for one of the richest clubs in the world.

Before finishing video, I'm guessing Nick Powell and Wilfred Zaha

All these dont actually look so bad when you compare it to the load of tripe signings that happened post Fergie

Even Ferguson is only human.

It’s Mikel SilvesTRE. Not Silvester :)

You should do 7 most under rated signs by sir Alex

A non league documentary on how Sutton united won the league last season and how the league started in October 2020 last year.

I was crying laughing everytime he said Jemba Jemba lmao

Jumped ship when he saw city coming

Who you personally think should have won the ballon dor for each year

Veron is world class player. But British football just didn’t suit him.

HiTC sevens most random video ever about 10 years too late 😂

Veron was class. Ferguson just played him in the wrong position, on the left, when he had no pace. He was a footballer, not an athlete. Sadly, our current squad has far too many of the later.

These signings are amazing compared to post fergie years. Maguire, wan bissaka spring to mind

class

I can't decide his worst signings ever, between Bebe and Moyes

Fabien Barthez was a bad signing. Actually all post-Schmeichel gks were bad until VDS came.

Day 6: Top 7 protest clubs (FC United of Manchester, AFC Liverpool).

Veron was brilliant when he was played in centre midfield, the problem was Ferguson didn't no how to fit him in..

It just goes to show no matter how good a player is,he might not be any good at a club whose just signed him,especially with foreign players they have to settle in learn the language and integrate into the team at the same time,for a lot of players it just doesn't work out for a multitude of reasons,every signing is a gamble many people in football have said that

He doesn't say Moyes!

Day 241: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions

Perhaps there could be the worst next big thing player.

Isn’t varon colour blind and can’t see red properly. So struggled to see the difference between his teammates and the opponent in games

It always baffles me when people say Man United are the biggest club in the world. What is that based on exactly?

Rudy Van Nis was an amazing signing!

Sorry Alfie..your introduction was WRONG. Sir Alex Ferguson is THE GREATEST manager of all time. He even topped you managers all time list video from last yr or something. Sorry for being prickly abt this detail...but I am a UTD fan. Also you left out Phil Jones...

No Owen Hargreaves?

Day 2: Downfall of South African Football

To this day I still don't understand why did Ferguson sign Liam Miller.