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07th Sep 2015

Which Premier League team has wasted the most money on transfer flops since 2013?

Crazy money...

Ben Kenyon

Every year the transfer market becomes more and more of a circus.

We saw the £1billion mark broken for the first time ever this year as transfer fees rose yet again.

But while some clubs wheel and deal and do their business tighter than a Scottish George Osborne, others spunk cash like they’re the Wolf of Wall Street.

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We’ve seen big money signings arrive at the Premier League’s big boys – only to disastrously flop and get shipped out again a season later.

But there’s one club that beats them all at squandering millions and millions of pounds on p*ss-poor signings, according to the Soccerex Transfer Review in the Telegraph.

We’ll give you a clue – they’ve signed a 19-year-old French lad for £36m (only time will tell if that’s another one to add to the sorry list).

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The stats show than United spent £118m on players than were used for less than half of the minutes played by the club since 2013.

Angel Di Maria, who cost a ludicrous £55m, accounted for half that dismal total – with Marouane Fellaini not far behind on £24m.

Di Maria played just 48% of the minutes which was surpassed by injury-hit Luke Shaw with just 33% after his £27m move.

Spurs were number two in the list of transfer shame with £100m down the swanny – thanks largely to Erik Lamela and Robert Soldado.

A special mention goes to Man City with £53m (Worst offender: Stevan Jovetic) and Liverpool with £50m (Worst offenders Mario Balotelli and Lazar Markovic).

The report says a total of £475m was spent on players in the Premier League who played less than 50% of their club’s total minutes.

Our eyes are watering!