Manchester United fans hit back at media after City sign Laporte

Manchester United fans hit back at media after City sign Laporte

Manchester United fans have hit back at the media after rivals City completed the £57 million signing of defender Aymeric Laporte.

The Citizens completed the club record signing of Laporte from La Liga side Athletico Madrid yesterday afternoon.

The money spent on the Frenchman takes City’s spend on defenders to over £230 million since the summer of 2016 when Pep Guardiola took over.


Amongst those the club have signed over the past 18-months are £45 million Kyle Walker, £52 million Benjamin Mendy (a world record fee for a defender up until Virgil Van Dijk’s £75 million Liverpool move earlier this month), as well as both Danilo and John Stones who cost in excess of £55 million combined.

Pep Guardiola has already responded to critics of his huge spending, saying: “I understand the criticism, but we have spent £300m on six players.

“Others have done it on two. We had a lot of older players out of contract. To compete we needed to spend. A club can decide to spend on two players. We did it in a different way.

“We understand the inflation of the market. We have spent on six players and others have done it in one or two. We accept criticism, but more important is that they play well.”

United fans will take no comfort in that apology. The Red Devils have been heavily criticised in the media as of late after completing the signing of Alexis Sanchez and paying the Chile international a reported £500,000 per week.

However, the United faithful think that criticism in unfairly justified given their rival’s recent spending patterns …