South American Imports to Manchester

After the relative poor performances by Alex Sanchez (Chile) I decided to cast my jaundiced eye over Manchester United's previous signings from South America.

This my opinion of the success rate of their careers at United notwithstanding their success/promise outside of UK. I graded them as Rubbish, Moderately Successful, Successful. Obviously they have had their form ups and downs, most of them mostly downs.

RUBBISH

Juan Gabriel Veron (Argentina);
Kleberson (Brazil);
Anderson (Brazil;
Fabio da Silva (Brazil);
Radamel Falcao (Columbia);
Angel di Maria (Argentina);
Sergio Romero (Argentina);
Guillermo Varela (Uruguay);
Alex Sanchez (Chile).

MODERATELY SUCCESSFUL
Gabriel Heinze (Argentina);
Diego Forlan (Uruguay);
Marcos Rojo (Argentina);

SUCCESSFUL
Antonio Valencia (Ecuador);
Carlos Tevez (Argentina);
Rafael da Silva (Brazil).

JURY STILL OUT
Andreas Pereira (Brazil).

CONCLUSION
On the whole I think we should stick to importing coffee, bananas and Volkswagen Beetles from South America. Footballers from Europe, with the odd player from South Korea and Africa.

PLEASE NOTE MASTER WOODWARD AND MESSRS GLAZER.