Manchester United are reportedly prepared to allow five players to leave when the summer transfer window opens
Manchester United are reportedly willing to let five players depart the club when the summer transfer window opens. The Reds are currently pursuing Champions League qualification following a season without European competition.
Michael Carrick was appointed as interim head coach by United in January and has since guided the team to six victories in his eight matches at the helm, a spell of results which has propelled the club to third position in the Premier League table.
United are now well-placed to secure Champions League qualification, especially if England are granted five qualification spots based on their UEFA coefficient this term.
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Irrespective of where United finish in the Premier League table this season, new information has surfaced regarding the Old Trafford hierarchy’s strategy for the summer transfer window. According to The Sun, five players could depart United during the summer as the club seeks to generate funds to cover the £422million they still owe in transfer fees.
They claim Mason Mount, Joshua Zirkzee, Rasmus Hojlund, Andre Onana and Manuel Ugarte could all leave United permanently this summer, all of whom signed during Erik ten Hag’s Old Trafford tenure.
Hojlund and Onana are currently on loan away from United for the campaign, and are increasingly expected to leave Old Trafford on a permanent basis in the summer.
United loaned Hojlund to Napoli with the deal also including an obligation to buy, and the club’s sporting director Giovanni Manna has confirmed that the striker will be signed on a permanent basis.
Manna stated: “There are no doubts. Rasmus Hojlund will stay here. We have an obligation to buy from Man Utd, if Napoli qualify for Champions League, but he is in our plans despite this condition.”
Onana is currently on loan at Trabzonspor, but there is uncertainty over whether the Turkish club will sign the goalkeeper on a permanent basis.
Trabzonspor vice-president Zeyyat Kafkas provided an update on Onana’s future earlier this month. He told Gunebakis: “As the figure from Manchester United for the purchase of Andre Onana is in the range of €45-50m, our president has sincerely informed the community in line with Trabzonspor’s realities.
“I don’t think this information affected Onana at all. Because Onana’s thinking is that if it’s not England, he wants to continue at a club in Europe. His family thinks the same way. The president also wanted to explain Trabzonspor’s reality. However, if the conditions change, the situation changes.”
Zirkzee has found regular playing time hard to come by at United after Ruben Amorim took over as head coach in November 2024, and this has continued since Carrick was appointed as the club’s interim head coach.
Mount has featured regularly for United at various points this season, but has been absent from the last six Premier League fixtures due to injury.
Ugarte, on the other hand, has made only seven top-flight starts for United this campaign and his future remains unclear.
