Not long after Marcos Rojo had signed his five-year contract to join Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon in 2014, and posed for pictures with the manager Louis van Gaal, the club received a phone call from a national newspaper. The journalist was asking for a reaction to the news that a judge in Argentina was considering calling Rojo back to his homeland to answer charges of actual bodily harm in relation to a scuffle with his former neighbour.
The incident happened in 2010, but United knew nothing about it. Somehow the club had spent £16 million on a player without knowing that he was the subject of a criminal investigation. Rojo was never charged, but he had to wait a month to be given his
