On today’s XI, we run through some of the best players Man United failed to sign over the years, with Jadon Sancho just one of many players who came close to signing for the Premier League giants. In 2020, the club also missed out on Real Madrid’s Sergio Reguilon, who is now playing under Jose Mourinho at rivals Tottenham, as well as Erling Braut Haaland, who decided a move to Borussia Dortmund would be better for his career.

And he isn’t the only Los Blancos star the Red Devils have failed to sign, with Sergio Ramos, Toni Kroos and Gareth Bale all targeted by the club to no avail during the 2010s, with Kroos apparently ready to secure a move before David Moyes was sacked as manager in 2014. Other players in our team include Manuel Neuer, who could have been signed instead of David De Gea, and Thiago Alcantara, who was slept on in favour of Cesc Fabregas