Rio Ferdinand didn’t just drop a comment — he launched a thunderbolt straight into the heart of Manchester United’s transfer committee, and the echoes are still rattling around Old Trafford like a loose billboard in a storm. The United legend, clearly fed up with what he’s been watching every weekend, finally said the quiet part out loud: Leny Yoro is the worst signing in Manchester United’s entire history.
And honestly? The way he delivered it felt like he’d been holding this frustration in for MONTHS.
According to Rio, he still can’t understand how Ruben Amorim — a man with the charisma of a Silicon Valley CEO and the ambition of a Bond villain — looked at Yoro, looked at the £70m+ price tag blinking red, and said, “Yeah. That’s the one. That’s the guy.”
Rio literally said:
“Sometimes I wonder what Ruben Amorim really saw in him that made him spend such a huge sum of money. He’s the worst signing ever in our club’s history now.”
United fans are still trying to figure out if he was being harsh or just painfully accurate.
Because let’s be real: nothing about Yoro’s start at United has made sense. The hype was cosmic, the price tag was astronomical, the expectation was skyscraper-high… but the performances?
More like a scratched DVD buffering on repeat.
Week after week, the stadium holds its breath whenever the ball comes near him — not because he’s about to pull off something magical, but because nobody knows what bizarre decision he’s going to make next. Mis-timed challenges, awkward positioning, passes that look like they were aimed at invisible teammates… he’s turned defending into abstract art.
Ruben Amorim, the man who arrived preaching structure, intensity, vertical transitions and defensive discipline, somehow trusted an 18-year-old with a developing body frame to instantly transform United’s
