Everton almost wasted £30m on Marcos Rojo back in 2018 | OneFootball

Everton have not had the greatest recruitment strategy over the last five seasons, having spent a total of £483.18m on incoming players’ transfer fees in that time period – and still ending up just three points above the Premier League relegation zone at present.

Andre Gomes and Jean-Philippe Gbamin arrived for a combined £45m in the 2019/20 season, alongside Alex Iwobi who signed for £27.36m from Arsenal in the same season – with all three players potentially up for sale at the end of the campaign for failing to make an impact

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The club almost wasted another £30m as well, the season before on then-Manchester United centre-back Marcos Rojo, who also almost joined the club a year later, before eventually returning to his homeland of Argentina to sign for Boca Juniors just over a year ago on a free transfer.

Now worth just £3.24m, it’s evident that the Toffees avoided making a ginormous blunder by signing the defender, with him now worth 89.2% less than the reported fee that they were willing to pay United for him.

Once criticised by legend Ryan Giggs for his “strange” defending and dubbed “useless” by Eamon Dunphy, the Argentinean never really established himself at Old Trafford, making just 122 appearances in all competitions across seven years with the club, having made half that amount of appearances for Sporting Lisbon in just a two-year spell.

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At 32-years-old, Rojo isn’t even a key player at Boca anymore, having been left on the bench for two of the last six games and averaging just a 6.70 match rating according to SofaScore.

With a long history of injuries throughout his career, it would have been unlikely that he would have played enough matches for Everton to justify the extortionate transfer fee, and chairman Farhad Moshiri will be feeling fortunate to have not wasted an eight-figure fee on what would have been most likely a flop of a transfer.