Originally Posted by
Jimmy Floyd
This will be a longer rebuild because their only nailed on safe bet player is a goalkeeper, and they have loads of useless contracts burning money that won't be easy to dump, Sanchez being the prime example.
If I were the new manager/DOF and I looked down that squad, and I was given the brief of being properly good again in three years, who do you keep around? I think it's fairly difficult to make an argument for too many of them. Pogba is notoriously unreliable so I'd look to shift him I think and spend the proceeds.
That aside, I'd back:
- De Gea
- whichever of Lindelof/Bailly is less of a write off
- Mata (for professionalism/example)
- Rashford
- Martial
- Lingard
- Dalot, assuming he's alright
- Shaw
I really wouldn't be fussed at all about any of the others. That leaves you needing to recruit an entire midfield for a start, and most of a defence, before you're good again - and that means buying people aged 18-24 and building them up, rather than shopping big for the finished article. Have corporate modern United got the patience to do that? I don't know.