2) Letting Pedro join Chelsea
How United messed this up is beyond almost everyone, with Ed Woodward mainly to blame, it would seem, though Van Gaal also needing to take some responsibility for supposedly going back and forth on whether or not he really wanted Pedro. Now at Chelsea, and impressing tremendously on his debut, it’s painfully clear that the former Barcelona man could have been a real hit at Old Trafford, bringing exactly what the team needs out wide after the sale of Angel Di Maria to Paris Saint-Germain. Now with just over a week to go, United risk hugely overpaying for a player like Neymar, Gareth Bale or Thomas Muller when Pedro could have been theirs for just £21m – an absolute bargain they for some reason felt was too expensive.