An entire XI of players the incoming Dutch boss can afford to lose this summer.
Incoming boss Louis van Gaal is apparently set for a major spending spree with the Dutchman ready to spend a reported £220m transfer war-chest to improve his Old Trafford squad.
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With that in mind, and a need to balance the books given the club will be without Champions League football in 2014/15, here are eleven players he could consider cashing in on this summer.
Javier Hernandez – Estimated Value £15m
25 year old Mexican only started six Premier League fixtures last season and is wasting away on the Man United bench and is a very bankable asset that van Gaal can afford to offload.
Chicharito has always scored regularly when called upon with 59 goals in 152 appearances for the club a statistic all the more impressive when you consider that almost half of those appearances came from the bench.
Rafael – Estimated Value £8m
Right-back is not reliable enough to be considered a first choice option and whilst youth was previously an excuse used to justify his inconsistent displays the 23 year old simply hasn’t matured into the level of talent required for a side who has aspirations to fight for major honours.
Regularly out of position and guilty of producing shockingly bad challenges on a frequent basis a player who’s departure wouldn’t greatly affect the Old Trafford side.
Anders Lindegaard – Estimated Value £3m
Danish keeper has lost out to David de Gea in the race for a first team berth and would do well to leave to secure regular action having made just 19 Premier League starts in three and a half years at Man United.
30 year old could do a decent enough job elsewhere and is likely to fall behind youngster Ben Amos as de Gea’s back-up.
Nani – Estimated Value £12m
Nani has been on the periphery of the Man United starting eleven for the last couple of seasons but is a player of obvious quality but is likely to be a player chief executive Ed Woodward will seek to sell.
Man United signed Nani in June 2007 and though the talented wide-man took some time to emerge from the shadow of national team colleague Cristiano Ronaldo the former Sporting Lisbon man did more than prove himself capable of making an impact.
The 2010/11 season was something of a turning point for Nani in many respects.
The Man United man was a first team regular and finished the campaign as one of the leading assist makers in the top tier but didn’t take kindly to being left out of Sir Alex Ferguson’s starting eleven for the Champions League final with Barcelona and his career at the club took a turn for the worst from that point onwards.
Ashley Young – Estimated Value £10m
Winger is way off his game and has arguably never come close to the good form he showed at Aston Villa and made him a solid regular for club and country.
Now more famed for his diving than his ability to threaten defences, time Man United cashed in on the 29 year old while they still can.
Tom Cleverley – Estimated Value £8m
It’s questionable what the England man offers Man United. Not an accomplished enough tackler to be considered a good defensive midfielder. A poor distributor of the ball and not a threat in the opposition half, very much a ‘Jack of all trades but master of none’ and a player Louis van Gaal will surely have little use for.
Marouane Fellaini – Estimated Value £15m
Belgian has proved an expensive failure, partially down to being used in an unfamiliar role, and Louis van Gaal would do well to nip this situation in the bud early on this summer.
There is talk of the Old Trafford side willing to sell the former Everton man for less than half the £27.5m they paid for him, this is a wise move by the club.
Shinji Kagawa – Estimated Value £12m
Yes he was at times used out of position by David Moyes but that’s not an excuse that entirely rules out the Japanese international’s poor inconsistent form last term.
On his day the former Borussia Dortmund man can unlock defences but has arguably only proven this on a handful of occasions in two seasons in England.
Bebe – Estimated Value £4m
The youngster, who’s purchase by Sir Alex Ferguson has to rank as one of the worst decisions of the Scot’s lengthy Old Trafford reign, has impressed during a loan spell back in his native Portugal and Louis van Gaal would do well to accept any half decent offer for the forward.
Wilfried Zaha – Estimated Value £7m
The 21 year old England international could well be surplus to requirements at Old Trafford with the youngster’s future under Louis van Gaal looking as uncertain as it was during David Moyes’s brief reign.
Zaha cost Man United £15m but was seemingly not a player Moyes valued very highly, sending the attacker to Cardiff City in January after just 28 minutes of Premier League action at Man United. His former side Crystal Palace are said to be interested in re-signing the youngster.
Anderson – Estimated Value £8m
Loaned out Brazilian will almost certainly be on his way on a permanent basis though one wonders just how much of the £20m Man United paid for the midfielder they hope to recoup.
Serie A side Fiorentina may choose to make their temporary move for the 25 year old a permanent one this summer.
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