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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