MANCHESTER UNITED legend Paul Scholes named Mark Bosnich as the club’s worst ever signing in a scathing assessment.
Scholes, 51, spent his entire 19-year career at United where he won every available major honour under Sir Alex Ferguson and saw many players come and go.
The legendary midfielder discussed Man Utd’s worst ever signings and defended Juan Sebastian Veron by claiming he was a “great player” despite many remembering him as a flop.
Instead, the former England star insisted Bosnich, 53, disappointed the most after rejoining Man Utd in 1999 from Aston Villa when the club were looking for Peter Schmeichel’s replacement after his first stint that saw him spend one year in the academy.
The 1999 Treble winner dubbed the former Australia international “so unprofessional” and even claimed he “couldn’t kick a football”.
Scholes told The Overlap: “Veron was a great player, a talented player. Don’t really know why it didn’t work for him but what a footballer.
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“I go back to the goalkeepers, when you had to try and replace Peter Schmeichel, which is always going to be difficult.
“We had a few. I was thinking [Massimo] Taibi, Mark Bosnich.
“I thought he was a good keeper at [Aston] Villa, Mark. He came to us, he was so unprofessional. Honestly, it was ridiculous.
“In shooting practice, you normally have like 15, 20 shots. After three shots, he’s knackered, ‘Oh no, get someone else in’.
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“I never realised, he couldn’t kick a football. I’ve never seen anything like it. We played Everton away in first game of the season, and none of us picked up on it, he couldn’t reach the halfway line.
“There was no wind, it was a perfect day. But when you look at his feet, size 14s, honestly he was just kicking the floor all the time, big flippers. Honestly, it was disappointing.”
Bosnich failed to fill Schmeichel’s giant boots and only managed 38 appearances before his departure in 2001 to Chelsea following Fabien Barthez’s arrival.