Exclusive: Manchester United United coach mentions five Manchester United flops who will be in his squad as he begins massive rebuild ,players full list in details .
It's already clear that Erik ten Hag's
first summer at Manchester United is
going to see a rapid turnover of players
both leaving and coming in.

While the 10 new signings Ralf Rangnick
suggested United urgently need is more
likely to be just three high quality buys
, with up to £150million available to
spend, a long overdue clearing out of
the deadwood looks inevitable.
For one thing, Paul Pogba, Jesse Lingard
, Nemanja Matic, Edinson Cavani and
Juan Mata are all set to depart Old Trafford
on free transfers once the window opens.
But now reports suggest that United will
listen to offers for five players it appears
have already been deemed surplus to requirements
in the Ten Hag rebuild.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Alex Telles, who
have been playing for United on a fairly
regular basis, may come as surprise inclusions.
But central defenders Eric Bailly and
Phil Jones are clearly not going to win
back their place, while forward Anthony
Martial has already been loaned out to Sevilla.

Each, in their own way, have become
victims of the decade of drift, decay and
dysfunction at United since Sir Alex
Ferguson's retirement in 2013.
All looked to have a place and a purpose
at one point or another but have found
themselves stymied by injuries, squad
competition, poor performances or simply
falling out of favour amid a churn of managers.
We take a look at what has gone wrong
and what could potentially happen next.
Alex Telles
Left-back, signed from Porto for £15.
4m in October 2020
Telles being added to the transfer list
may surprise many because he is playing
regularly for United at the moment with
Luke Shaw set to miss the remainder
of the season through injury.
But despite great promise and potential,
his time with United has been pretty
underwhelming and perhaps Ten
Hag just doesn't see the Brazil international
fitting the bill as the kind of flying wing
-back he loves.
Telles, who only arrived in October 2020,
was very much an Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
man, brought in to put pressure on Shaw
to up his performances at left-back.

The thing was, Shaw responded with
his best season in a United shirt in 2020-
21 and Telles found himself warming the
bench in just about every Premier
League game.
Though he played quite often in United's
run to the Europa League final, he was
never able to dislodge Shaw as first choice
and only injuries to the England man
have seen him play so often this season.
Unfortunately, Telles hasn't been performing
very well and Saturday's loss at Arsenal
, which saw some dodgy positioning and
the concession of a penalty, hardly did
his chances of staying in favour much good.

Ten Hag favours three at the back and
wing-backs who arguably contribute
more going forward than they do defensively.
It looks like Shaw will get the first
chance to impress the new manager assuming
he returns to full fitness over the summer.
If Telles leaves, perhaps youngster Brandon
Williams, who has been on loan at Norwich
, will return as Shaw's understudy next season.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka
Right-back, signed from Crystal Palace
for £50m in 2019
Wan-Bissaka, one of the most exciting
young players in the Premier League
when signed for £50m from Crystal Palace
back in 2019, certainly didn't come cheap.
Three seasons on, it's fair to conclude
that the right-back hasn't kicked on in his
career and improved in the way both
he and United would have expected.
After 126 games for the club, Wan-Bissaka
continues to frustrate more often than he
delights and there have to be serious doubts
that he can fulfil an attacking wing-
back function for the new manager.

While his tackling is fine, questions must
be asked of his positioning, marking and
attacking qualities. His insistence on checking
back before crossing is sure to annoy
Ten Hag, who wants his wing-backs
to push on to the byline.
Just 10 assists in those 126 outings for
United really is a disappointing return,
especially when under Solskjaer the side
was geared up to counter attack
with speed and width.
Rangnick has started to play Diogo Dalot
in his position a bit more which given
the Portuguese was so unwanted last
season he was loaned out is a pretty
damning indictment.
Wan-Bissaka will no doubt find another
Premier League club and the new start
will do him good but United are going
to have to cut their losses.

Eric Bailly
Central defender, signed from Villarreal
for £30m in 2016
It's little surprise to see Bailly on the
for sale list even if his Instagram comment
last week betrayed his belief that he
should be starting ahead of Harry Maguire
at the heart of United's defence.
Even when Rangnick gave Maguire the
afternoon off at Arsenal on Saturday,
he favoured Victor Lindelof ahead of
Bailly, which just illustrates how far
the Ivorian's stock has fallen.


He's had just seven outings and a measly
487 minutes of football in another write
-off of a season, so it's understandable
that United would want rid, even if Bailly
has a contract until 2024.
That new deal last April was just another
example of scattergun thinking in the United
hierarchy, given his game time was already
declining, he was injury prone and hardly
covered himself in glory with his
performances.
The fact he isn't preferred to the equally
unreliable Maguire tells you everything
you need to know. It's all a far cry from
when Jose Mourinho sanctioned his £30m
purchase in his first summer as manager.

In Bailly's defence, he has been unfortunate
with injuries in recent seasons but he's
28 and should be firmly in his prime.
Only at another club may that actually
come to fruition now, especially if Ten
Hag moves for his tried and trusted Ajax
defender Jurrien Timber and potentially also
Pau Torres - a Villarreal defender like
Bailly was - in the summer.
In fact, you can imagine Ten Hag watching the videos of Maguire, Bailly and Lindelof and just shuddering.
Phil Jones
Central defender, signed from Blackburn Rovers for £16.5m in 2011
It wasn't meant to be this way for Jones, one of the most promising English defenders in years when Ferguson signed him from Blackburn back in 2011.
Over a decade on, Jones is one of only three in the current dressing room who knows what it feels like to win the league title with United and he's watched an awful lot of dross in the interim.

The horrific knee injury that robbed Jones of 20 months of football in what should have been the best part of his career rightly elicits a lot of sympathy.
But now is the time to move on from United and start afresh where more regular football can be obtained.
Despite being fit again since the start of the year, Rangnick has only used Jones in three games and he's fifth or sixth on the central defensive pecking order with little chance of a rise.
United will surely wish him all the best when Ten Hag comes in and find him the best club for the next chapter as he looks to restart his stalled career.

Anthony Martial
Forward, signed from Monaco for £36m in 2015
So unwanted at United that he was allowed out on loan to Sevilla back in January having barely featured for United during the first-half of the campaign.
That loan spell has hardly been inspiring, with just one goal and one assist in 11 outings so far.
So it isn't as if Martial is in such hot form out in Spain that United can't wait to reintegrate him next season. An exit seems highly likely and they're going to have to take a financial hit.

The French striker cost them £36m initially back in 2015, with add-ons pushing that closer to £60m. For that, Martial has shown only glimpses of his abundant potential.
79 goals in 269 games for United doesn't appear to be a bad return on paper but he's only really had two good seasons - his first on in 2015-16 and the 23-goal return under Solskjaer in 2019-20.
He has then failed to back that up with the kind of goalscoring consistency you'd expect from someone so talented.
With United almost certain to sign another forward or two in the summer, it's time to cut the rope. There may not exactly be a queue round the block for him though.

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