Another incentive for Manchester United to prioritise sales over the next eight days is their squad size.
Facundo Pellistri is going and Hannibal Mejbri probably will go. In the best-case scenario that Scott McTominay and Jadon Sancho are also among the outgoings with Manuel Ugarte the incoming, then United would have a healthy squad size of 28.READ MORE: United prepared to sell five more players before deadline
United have 38 Premier League games, at least eight Europa League league matches, League Cup and FA Cup third round ties this term. That is 48 matches minimum - only four shy of the 52 fixtures they had in the exhausting 2023-24. "But in this moment he needs to catch up and he has to develop some skills already to play for Manchester United, competing for the highest positions in the league. But with big talent it can go up very quickly and that is very interesting to see if he is capable of doing this."