Which players should stay for the rebuild?

Mazraoui, Martinez, Yoro, Ugarte, Garnacho, Mainoo, Zirkzee and Amad. Dorgu will stay because he was just signed. The rest can kick rocks.
 
When Omar Berrada came in he said something along the lines of players need to perform well within 2 seasons of signing or risk being sold, for that statement to be true it will be a very high turn over of players in the summer.

So to answer the OP
Yoro
De Ligt
Maguire
Maz
Heaven
Dalot
Dorgu
Ugarte
Mainoo
Bruno
Amad
Zirkzee
 
The only untouchables (and even then I don't think anybody is really untouchable on this team) would be Amad and Yoro. After those two, I'd choose to keep (obviously we will keep many more but I wouldn't actively want to be rid of the following) De Ligt, Mazraoui, Ugarte (I'd give him another season), Dorgu, Heaven, Collyer (not a priority or anything but am curious to see what he can offer), and Zirkzee. The rest can feck right off.
 
I starting making a post about who I'd keep and who I would sell but as it's mostly sell I'd rather mention the ones to keep.

Definitely keep:
Bruno
Amad
Yoro
Heaven
Obi

Keep if not able to get a good offer:
Mazraoui
De Ligt
Maguire

One season to improve or sell:
Dorgu
Garnacho
Mainoo
Dalot

Definitely sell:
Onana
Ugarte
Hojlund
Casemiro
Collyer
Mount
Shaw
Lisandro
Zirkzee

Not including youngsters who barely featured or players out of contract in the summer.
 
Given we don't need a big squad next season, I'd go:
GK - new starter, don't care backup
RB - Dalot and Maz are fine
CB - Yoro, De Ligt, Maguire, Martinez recovering, Heaven, Fredricson is fine
LB - Dorgu, Amass
Midfield - Ugarte, Bruno, Mainoo
Attack - Zirkzee, Amad

In a 433, we need a CF and a couple wingers with Garnacho leaving. Casemiro I would have been fine keeping if we won, but no real point on his salary if we can get something for him, so would need to replace him too.

In Amorim's system, Cunha will join the attackers and Mount will stay, and we need a CF which makes the numbers fine there.

I don't think any of our fullbacks are that suited to be wing backs, Dalot closer than any, but generally they're all good full backs but average wing backs. Doubt we do much with no CL football there.
 
Keep: Yoro, Amad, Mazroui, De Ligt, Heaven
Sell if good offer come : Bruno, Mainoo, Garnacho, Dalot, Ugarte, Mount (i dont know any club will go for him atm).
Must sell : Onana, Altay, Shaw, Hojlund.

The rest keep for 1-2 season until get better replacement.
 
I think this thread needs to be about who would any other team want. There should be no untouchables.
 
Need a huge clear out. Wouldn't turn down any offers for any of our players
 
We shouldn't just sell everyone and bring a new team in, that just won't work.

Selling Mainoo and Garnacho to bring in two players that aren't even guaranteed to be a success makes zero sense.

Already, we're going to see Heaton, Evans, Lindelof, Eriksen, Malacia, Rashford, Antony, Sancho leave which frees up a significant amount of wages. I'd also then probably look at moving Bayindir, Maguire, Shaw and Hojlund on.

I'll maintain a point that I made a while ago which is that 4/5 players of good quality transforms this team and puts us (at the very least) back in the top 6-8. The difference between 17th and 7th in this league at the moment is (in reality) feck all. There's every chance a lot of the surprise packages from this season struggle to do it again, especially if they're in Europe.
 
Maz, Maguire, De Ligt, Yoro, Licha, Dorgu, Ugarte, Bruno, Kobbie, Amad, Garna, Zirkzee.

That would be my list to keep. Rest can be listed on craigslist for all I care.
 
Probably the most important sell is the Glazers ownership, until,that is completed and the leeches removed from their debt building strategy, then the club will be unable to commence any sort of decent rebuild.

The Glazers hold on the club is strangling the life out of it, they don’t invest in the club, they just add debt and take dividends , how can that benefit the team. Terrible and absent owners, who shouldn’t have been allowed to purchase the club in the manner they did. Oh well , the EPL is a toothless organisation that has allowed the owners to infest the club with problems without action.
 
Amad and Yoro would be the absolute musts for me.
There are a few other names I could drop in, but honestly, I think thats mostly because our standards are so low these days, that even shite can seem appealing.
I'd be open to everybody else.
Bruno may shock some people, but honestly, if selling him would give us the push for a complete rebuild, I'd be for it
 
Half of the team should go.

End of contract:

Lindelof
Evans
Eriksen

Sell : 140M

Altay, 3M
Malacia, 5M
Shaw, 10M
Casemiro, 10M
Garnacho, 50M
Rashford, 40M
Sancho, 25M clause

Loans :

Hojlund, simply because no one will buy this kid. Weghorst was a better player than him
Onana, loan him anywhere, we'll never find a proper buyer for him, so a loan in Spain or Italy should be good for him

Surprise :

If I have a proper offer for Bruno I sell him, with minimum 80-90M€
 
I love the optimism in this thread. Realistically though, who can you expect to leave?

Unfortunately for us the only players we can easily move are the ones we need to hold on to. The rest are pretty average players on high salaries.

Contracts ending - Heaton, Lindelof, Evans, Eriksen.

What that leaves us with is 6 senior defenders, most of which are made of glass. So we'll need all of them.
5 senior midfielders (including Mainoo). And here we have Mount who will again be injured half the time(at best).
7 attackers. Among them Antony (the only one that we can sell probably), Rashford, Sancho. So it's more like 4 or 5.

Unless a miracle happens, I don't see us going in next season with anything but the same set of players we already have.
 
After this season, there's not one untouchable player in the squad.

They should all be in the firing line.
 
Keep the youth as they are playing in a system that doesn’t support any of them really.
Sell:
Onana
Bruno
Martinez
Casemiro
Mount
….feck it, sell anyone who gets an offer. Clubs going down regardless.
 
Yoro
Maz
Dorgu
Heaven
Amad

The rest I'm not bothered by.
 
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Considering we are going to have a lack of funds to spend I think if we get a big offer for Bruno we need to consider it even if he doesn’t want to leave.
 
I hope we can offload:
Onana, Shaw, Dalot, Casemiro, Sancho, Antony, Rashford, Højlund, Zirkzee, Garnacho and Bruno + the players w. Ending contracts.

Get a god handfull of players and play som youngsters.
 
Everyone over 25 should be on their last contract with us and should be sold or released over next 2-3 summers. None of Rashford, Antony, Malacia or Sancho should be brought back. Maybe there is an odd exception like Mazraoui who should be kept and clearly Hojlund who is under 25 needs to go.

That’s where we are massively overspending in terms of wages and transfer fee amortisation. We rid ourselves of that and start reinvesting it in younger, hungrier players on smaller wages and are more selective in terms of spending 40m or more on players.

Let’s see how many of the younger players can improve but at least those players are easier to move on from and I think we will see more and more investment in youngster players from academy through to first team level.
 
Don't care what they do, but we should be moving towards a 433 long time. It is the most repeatable formation. Gradually move on everyone who won't fit.
 
Yoro
Maz
De Ligt
Dorgu
Amass
Heaven

Mainoo
Collyer
Bruno

Amad
Garnacho
Chido

We're not a million miles off, we need to be better on the sideline/training ground. I'd even keep Hojlund, he's been utterly useless this season but he's better than he's showing imo.
 
Josep Dowling said:
I would like to get rid of:

Onana
Shaw
Maguire
Lindelof
Evans
Dalot
Eriksen
Casemiro
Mount
Sancho
Rashford
Anthony
Hojlund

If we carry on with this system and the right offer came in I’d sell Bruno as well.

The squad is a complete mess. We need rid of every player earning over £150k a week.
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Agree all those can go, plus if massive offer for Bruno comes in he has to be sold, same as Garnacho.. imo I think they will go as well.. on top of that lot... bring in or try at least 4 to 5 quality players.. only league to go for.. domestic cups ??
 
Red Rash said:
I think it's pretty clear that we have one of the weakest Man Utd squads in decades. Ideally we would replace 90 percent plus of the squad but that probably isn't realistic in the short term.

however which players do you consider to have a mid to long term future at the club and should be part of the rebuild?

GK

None

DEF

Yoro
De Ligt
Maz
Heaven
Dalot
Dorgu
Amass

MID

Mainoo
Ugarte

AM

Bruno
Amad

ST

Zirkzee
Chido
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I'd agree with all of that. With the reduction of games next season we can certainly go in with a much smaller squad.

Personally, i'd sell one of Dalot/Maz as I think they both fit the same position and criteria. Neither are good enough offensively. We can honestly sell half the current senior squad and we'd see very little change on the pitch.
 
I agree that Amad and Yoro are the only indispensable players. Bruno is our best player but for £100m+, he should be let go. We just better hope and pray we use that money wisely like Liverpool did with Coutinho, although equally possible for us to end up like Spurs with the Bale cash.
 
Why do people want to keep Dalot? He's just as shit as all the other shit and how long has he been here?
I'd definitely keep,

Yoro,
Amass,
De Ligt,
Maz,
Dorgu (won't be going anywhere so),
Heaven,
Ugarte,
Mainoo,
Amad,
Collyer,
JZ,
Garnacho.

Everyone else can go.
 
Anyone listing Garnacho bear in mind that it's now very much him v Ruben so I would advise pick a side
 
In terms of the squad, not all starters:

In the long term: Yoro, Amass, Mainoo, Amad, Obi, Ugarte, Mazraoui, Heaven

Additional for the shorter term: Bruno, De Ligt, Dalot & Dorgu

Everyone else should be gone fairly soon, finances abiding.
 
croadyman said:
Anyone listing Garnacho bear in mind that it's now very much him v Ruben so I would advise pick a side
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nah, this is way too simplistic. You can think that ruben just doesnt have the tactical flexibility to be a coach at this level, and also think that garnacho is way too one dimensional for his ego and that he hasnt improved on much throughout his time here. This is just the same fallacy of saying well we shouldve kept DDG because Onana sucks. You can think ruben isnt cut out for this level AND that garnacho as well is nothing more a mid tier player who fancies himself the next ronaldo.
 
I think our next challenging XI can be:

Goalkeeper

Dalot/Mazraoui
Yoro
Heaven
Dorgu

Midfielder
Mainoo
Koné (I said what I said)

Amad
Striker
Garnacho

Add depth, keep some experience around that - but buy top players in the 3 missing positions in that first XI and I think the ingredients are there with some luck.
 
Sell the entire squad and use the proceeds to build a new one. make a youtube series out of it.
 
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