Mount is far from being the first lavish signing to leave United scratching collective heads, with the likes of [Jadon Sancho, Antony and Rasmus Hojlund all falling into a similar category](https://www.goal.com/en/lists/free-agent-jadon-sancho-answer-important-questions-release-man-utd-new-club/blte3a61c66df0890e5) across the last five years.
Parker added on questionable recruitment and value for money proving hard to find: “And there's been more than that as well. I just wonder about this way of getting players now and all this data and stuff like that.
“What's wrong with just watching people and asking questions to people around? Just follow them and maybe watch them and see how they conduct themselves. Look at them in games, go and watch them. In theory, it's something that resembles a cold November night at Stoke City and see how they perform there compared to how they perform at home.
“How do they perform when their team's getting battered? Do they still go out there and start demanding more from their team-mates when they're behind? Does his head drop if he misses two chances and then he just stalls? Or does he keep trying in that way? Does he stop shooting because he's scared he's going to miss, he's going to get it wrong and miss the target again and worried about getting booed?
“Those kind of ways are how you find people, not looking at stats all the time. Because stats ain't going to tell you about a person's mentality and what they're like in certain situations. And there's been too many of those players because it needs a certain kind of player to play for Manchester United.
“Don't ask me to write it down or lay it out, but I can see it from what I saw of players who were there who failed when I was there. And it wasn't because they weren't good enough. It was the demands of what it was, the job at Manchester United and the fact they virtually told themselves inside they couldn't handle it.
“And that's what can happen, and that's what is happening to some players. It's too much from the demands and that's not people knocking at your door saying you're rubbish. That's just when you walk around or when you see people and the way they talk, you get that.
“And that's not people being aggressive. It's just the fact of what the club stands for. Even now in these tough times, on and off the pitch in the club, there's still the demands. People just watch the majority looking for you to fail. And then it's about you to go and show something. Then, all of a sudden, you gain the respect of people who mostly hate Manchester United - you've done well for them, they never say their name, they say ‘them’.
“Going back to Mason Mount, this may be him in the end. He thought about Chelsea and what it was and why he was there, what he achieved, and then he suddenly realised that Manchester United is a different club to Chelsea. Very much a different club.
“Playing in London is completely different to playing outside of London. Big change. The demands get a little bit more because you're virtually living in a one-horse town. It's a two-horse town in Manchester, but it suddenly changes. Playing in London, when there's like four or five teams in the top division, at least four, it's completely different. Completely different way of life if you win or lose games.”