I'm afraid the Tottenham heirarchy have really shot themselves in the foot. By not addressing this situation sooner they've left themselves with very little room to manouvre. Sell Berbatov to someone else (not Utd) and be done with him.

Duncan, Wokingham,

Anderson will prove to be the one of the best midfielders in the world if he stays at United and stays hungry. An outstanding talent.

nicko, Leatherhead,

despite united winning the premeir league two consective times it has been lacking a natural number nine,and with the arrival of berba at ot i think saf might repeat the perfomance of 1999 now berba will belong to his right family.

beu, mbale, uganda

The jury may be out in New York, old son,but Nani outplayed Ronaldo in the big matches in the Euros and Anderson stepped into two of the biggest boots in football last season, those of Mr Scholes, and did not look out of place. In his first season.Have to agree about a couple others on the list, tho

Chris, Worthing, England

Shaybo, how can you list squad players as 'bad signings'? Not every 1.2m player turns out to a Cantona-esque purchase but they played their part and were worth the cash. You're also dredging up 10 years worth of transfers. Benitez signed that many duds last week!

Turbo, London,

Calling Veron, Forlan and Blomqvist bad signings is simply ridiculous. Veron was one of the world's outstanding midfielders at the time. Bellion on the other hand...

David, London,

I am fed up of these Prima Donas. Berbatov is contracted to Spurs. Last year, he was kissing the badge, now "his heart is not in it".

Players need to be fined for this sort of behaviour and clubs need to get sronger in their actions.

Hamad Lone, London, England

Shaybo- all mangers make bad signings but nearly all of the ones you mentioned didnt cost much apart from veron and we got 18 million back for him, more than the write down value on the company books.
Poborsky,Blomquist,forlan,howard are 4 players that were good players and proved it a other clubs.

david b, stockport, england

Fergy ony sold Forlan because we were playing with a one striker system{Van Nistoroy} Fergy has since said he really wanted to keep him but it was unfair as he wasnt getting the games he needed.
Got the golden boot in spain the year after so he was a very good player.
Howard is good for Everton.

david b, stockport, england

Blomqvist kept Giggs on the bench for much of the 98/99 treble winning season and started the 99 final. In the Euro games he was very good. Unfortuntly he got a bad injury or his time at Utd would have been more prominent.
Veron had been great but mentally lost it as he never wanted to leave Italy.

david b, stockport, england

Anderson is the real deal and will be (If fit) Uniteds main midfielder this year. I think SAF has signed players on the evidence of performances for other clubs, or tournaments... however, some simply cannot step up and play for United. Its too big a stage for some. Berbatov will find his true home.

Nick, Tokelau, South Pacific,

If you are going to pick on bad signings then surely you have to weight it up with the likes of Cantona for 1.2m, Solskjaer for one mill and Peter Schmeichel for 550k?? And anyone who thinks Anderson is not a quality player doesnt know what they are looking at!!

colin james, Dubai, UAE

What is it with Bulgarian players, Petrov at Man City is another sulky player who never seems to smile or looks like he's enjoying life. Are Berbatov or Petrov aware that the Iron curtain and the Berlin wall are gone? and Eastern Europeans are allowed to be happy. Check the bank balance that'll help

Chris, Weston super Mare, England

what do you mean "a bad signing"??? I don't recall any red calling Forlan a bad signing - especially after he stuffed Liverpool. Tim Howard - a bad signing?? His first season was out of this world - unfortunately his Terret's may have prevented him from going on the greater things; Smith? Bad injury

john, bahrain, bahrain

um dont know what you have been watching champ but kleberson, richardson, djemba djemba....just to name a few

tim, chch,

Its all very well after everything is over to stand up and say so and so had been a bad buy. I challenge anyone to to admit that when SAF signed Veron, he or she immediately voiced that JSV would be a failed signing. And did you jump for joy when Yorke was signed?... and how did it turn out?

adrian ng, petaling jaya, malaysia

Sir Alex hasn't made a bad signing!? I can name a dozen. Poborsky, Cruyff, Blomqvist, Taibi, Veron, Forlan, Howard, Bellion, Djemba Djemba, Kleberson, Smith, Miller. That's gotta be 70m quid there alone and the jury's still out on the two very expensive signings from last season, Nani and Anderson.

Shaybo, New York,

In all the years that sir Alex has been in charge of united he has not made a bad signing but i think 25 million is ten million too much but only time will see.I only hope that he can help in the scoring dept and lets get rooney into his proper position.

Tow, Manchester,