Manchester United could have to sell a number of first-team players in the summer in order to raise cash.
Man Utd boss Erik ten Hag may have to make some big sales (Image: GETTY)
Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag is facing crunch calls on the futures of Harry Maguire, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Fred and Donny van Beek this summer when the club could be forced into major sales to raise transfer funds, reports claim. The Red Devils will only seemingly be able to spend on two conditions at the end of the campaign due to changes to UEFA financial regulations.
The governing body’s newly-implemented cost controls mean clubs will be restricted to spending just 70 per cent of their total revenue on transfer business, salaries and also agent fees by the time the 2025/26 season comes around.
In order to achieve that, United must start making yearly adaptations to their wage bill and transfer dealings – starting from now.
By the 2023/24 season, they will be required to trim down their overall spending to 90 per cent of their revenue which will require some cost-cutting measures.
Should United qualify for the Champions League, they will stand in far better stead to invest on their squad with several new signings.
Erik ten Hag’s finances could be restricted moving forward (Image: Getty)
Harry Maguire is among those that could be sold by Man Utd (Image: Getty)
According to The Telegraph, departures will be integral to hopes of spending and Ten Hag is now set to face pressure to decide whether he wants to keep Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Fred and Van de Beek.
All have been squad players this season but United will have to turn to selling some of these players if they want to raise funds.
Maguire was recently linked with a transfer to Aston Villa but the United captain is expected to stay put this month.
Beyond that, his future at Old Trafford is in doubt and having signed Maguire for £80m, a substantial sale will be required in order to recoup some of the blockbuster fee shelled out to Leicester.
Manchester United boss impressed by Charlton’s young stars after passing Old Trafford test
Dean Holden has revealed that Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag was left impressed by Charlton’s youngsters in Tuesday night’s EFL Cup quarter-final tie.
The Addicks lost 3-0 at Old Trafford but it needed two very late Marcus Rashford goals to take the contest away from the visitors, who had been the only London and non-Premier League club left in the competition.
A trio of prospects – Miles Leaburn, Lucas Ness and Aaron Henry – featured in the match.
Holden, a lifelong Manchester United supporter, had a chat with Ten Hag after the tie.
“He’s asked me to go into Carrington [their training ground] and see how they operate,” the Addicks boss told Charlton’s official website. “He was very complimentary about us, as was Steve McClaren [United’s assistant coach]. They did a lot of work on us. They did as much preparation on us as they are going to do for Manchester City at the weekend.
“It shows the standards they set.
“They had some really good things to say about some of our younger players. The career that Erik ten Hag has had, and the clubs he has been at, for him to be talking about some of our young players and how well they performed is the biggest thing on the night.”
Holden tweeted his thanks to Charlton’s support – 9,000 making the trip north – and described them as “incredible”.
The Addicks are set to make in the region of £600,000 for the revenue generated.
“Our supporters have shown what we can be, and we have been in the past,” he said. “We need them again against Barnsley and away to Peterborough.
“We’ve come here and had a right go. There were 70,000 here and we had 9,000 – you could hear them all night.
“It can’t be after the Lord Mayor’s Show [against Barnsley]. We have to find the performance on Saturday that we have done in the previous two league games to really kickstart our season.
“We’ve got ourselves into a decent enough position, in and around that mid-table, we need to put that hammer down and keep pushing.”
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