Ruben Amorim admitted he is in the dark over player sales in the January transfer window but insisted the club are ‘in control’ of who stays and who goes. Amorim has frozen Marcus Rashford out of the first team squad and the 27-year-old striker has already said he wants to find a new challenge away from Old Trafford. And there has been talk of potential moves away from Old Trafford for Alejandro Garnacho, Casemiro, Antony and Tyrell Malacia, amongst others.
It seems obvious that United would like to get under-performing big-earners such as Casemiro and Antony off their books and Rashford’s United career looks as good as over. And the sale of a player such as Garnacho would make financial sense in that all of the fee would go down as pure profit because the Argentine is classed as an academy product.
But Amorim, who had a meeting with co-owner Sir Ratcliffe after the dramatic ending to the victory over Southampton on Thursday, reminded the under-contract stars that the club - not the players - are in charge of the transfer situation. The United boss said: “I want to keep my players, I'm focused on these players. I don't know what is going to happen in this window, we'll see. But they are our players, so we have control on that. We decide on that. Sometimes it's harder for the players because they have some information, and you can feel it in every team. It’s like that.”.
