It’s pretty clear why Sir Jim Ratcliffe so desperately wants to change Manchester United’s transfer strategy given this list of players with the greatest market value decreases this season is topped by Antony – who’s a long way ahead of anyone else – and features a further three Red Devils.
There was very little sign of Mount reaching his Chelsea heights in his limited game time for the Red Devils, and it feels like there’s very little hope – even among the United fans – of him coming good in what’s left of the season. Quite simply, Erik ten Hag bought a player for whom there is no place in his team.Very easy to forget that Cancelo remains on the Manchester City books, mainly because there is quite clearly no way back having fallen out with Pep Guardiola.
A €25m drop feels harsh before you question how on earth Hojbjerg was valued at €45m at the start of the campaign. Spurs will be hoping for a good showing at Euro 2024 for the Denmark international to lift that price tag up again.He’s now dropped below the market value he was at when Manchester United signed him for €95m, a transfer fee which led to what was quite clearly a false top value of €75m in the summer of 2022. A 63% drop in 20 months is good going, even for United.
Darren Bent stated Erik ten Hag is “having a laugh” as the Manchester United boss was asked “how do you come back with Antony and not Kudus” from Ajax.