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Matthijs de Ligt stole the headlines when Manchester United completed a double signing from Bayern Munich in 2024, but it was the man he arrived alongside who impressed in his first season at the club.

Being one of the better performers in a team that finished 15th in the table and without a trophy is hardly one for the CV, but Noussair Mazraoui enjoyed an encouraging first season in England. The Morocco international was consistent without being spectacular, and a modest fee of just £12.8m with a further £4.3m in add-ons represented a decent but of business for United .

De Ligt, meanwhile, struggled to adapt to life at Old Trafford.

With nearly £43m shelled out on the Netherlands international, there was always going to be more expected of him than Mazraoui, but he strugg

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