FOR SALE: Manchester United’s board puts 12-players up for sale after a disastrous loss to Tottenham Hotspur yesterday, identifies their replacements
Manchester United will listen to offers for EVERY player in the wake of their disastrous Europa League final defeat.
No player will be immune from being sold – including captain Bruno Fernandes – as United face up to a catastrophic financial black hole.
The crushing 1-0 loss to Tottenham in Bilbao saw United blow a place in next season’s Champions League – and with it £100million in revenue.
Defeat to Spurs means United will not play in Europe at all next season, for only the second time in 35 years and means further cutbacks at the club that has already seen mass redundancies.
United’s failure in Bilbao means they also face missing out on signing their top summer targets, including Liam Delap, Matheus Cunha and Victor Osimhen.
Without the additional revenue from European games, United will have no choice but to sell players to raise funds for Ruben Amorim to strengthen his squad – which has cost £845million to put together in recent transfer windows – provided he survives the sack after a shambolic season.
High-profile stars including Casemiro, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Andre Onana, Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Hojlund, Kobbie Mainoo and Fernandes are all available to the highest bidders.
United are also desperate to off-load Marcus Rashford, Antony and Jadon Sancho, all of whom are currently out on loan elsewhere. Rashford is desperate to leave United after the breakdown of his relationship with Amorim and the club, and is holding out for a move to Barcelona.
Garnacho, furious at being left out of United’s starting line-up to face Tottenham, having played a key role in getting them to the final, is attracting interest from Napoli and Chelsea.
England winger Sancho, on loan at Chelsea, will return to United this summer, but will be off-loaded as one of the club’s highest-paid stars, along with Rashford.
United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chief executive Omar Berrada and technical director Jason Wilcox will oversee the major squad overhaul this summer.
The Red Devils are going on a two-game post-season tour of Malaysia and Hong Kong straight after Sunday’s final game of the season against Aston Villa at Old Trafford.
But when they return to Manchester, the United hierarchy will begin the process of reshaping the squad and raising funds to cope with no European football next term.
