Manchester United will be open to January offers for Casemiro, Raphael Varane, Jadon Sancho, Anthony Martial and Donny van de Beek.

Casemiro and Varane may be of particular interest owing to their experience and highly successful careers but their high salaries and age complicate an exit.

Sancho is available because of a refusal to apologise to Ten Hag for questioning the manager’s explanation for leaving him out of the defeat at Arsenal in early September.