Manchester United ready to sell Eric Bailly and Marcos Rojo – but Alexis Sanchez set to STAY at Old Trafford
In January boss Jose Mourinho is certain to hit the transfer market for defensive reinforcements
MANCHESTER UNITED are ready to sell flop defenders Marcos Rojo and Eric Bailly.
But Alexis Sanchez won’t be going anywhere – for a while at least.
As soon as the January transfer window opens, boss Jose Mourinho is certain to press ahead with plans to bring at least one defender through the door.
With Rojo failing to break into the starting XI after recovering from injury, and Bailly clearly not winning over Mourinho, their futures look set to be away from Old Trafford, according to .
Rojo turned out for United’s Under-23s last month, but was hauled off after aggravating the injury further against Reading.
The 59-cap Argentina international injured himself during this summer’s World Cup in Russia.
Bailly, meanwhile, has become unsettled after being frozen out by Mourinho due to an alarming dip in form at the start of the campaign, say .
The 24-year-old was dropped after the horror show at Brighton and was brought back in for the league game at home to Newcastle United last month.
Champions League or sack for Jose
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JOSE MOURINHO faces the sack if he fails to make the Champions League.
Manchester United are ready to head in a different direction should they miss out on top-table European football.
Old Trafford executives still admire Mauricio Pochettino, but it looks almost impossible to get him out of the water-tight contract he signed with Tottenham in the summer.
Both United and Real Madrid are keen to snare the Argentine but Spurs chairman Daniel Levy will scrap tooth and nail to hang on to his man.
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But another disastrous display saw the Ivory Coast defender hooked after just 19 minutes as United trailed the Magpies 2-0 after 10 minutes and has not been seen since.
AC Milan are believed to be prime movers in January for the centre-half.
Sanchez is another who has failed to set Old Trafford alight since he swapped places with Henrikh Mkhitaryan in January.
But with the 29-year-old on wages of more than £300,000-a-week, it seems unlikely any club would be able to stump up that sort of cash for a player clearly not in his best form.
Mourinho started the Chilean in their stunning last-minute Champions League win against Juventus.
But he was back on the bench as United fell to a 3-1 defeat in the Manchester derby at the weekend.