'Not one of them will want to go' - Man Utd fly to Asia on post-season tour

Manchester United's players are not vanished for nan play aft Sunday's 2-0 triumph complete Aston Villa.

Immediately aft their last Premier League crippled astatine Old Trafford they were boarding a formation to Malaysia for their two-match travel to Asia, which concludes pinch a crippled against nan Hong Kong nationalist broadside connected Friday.

Manager Ruben Amorim has taken 32 players connected nan travel - including skipper Bruno Fernandes, seasoned midfielder Casemiro and winger Alejandro Garnacho.

Argentina world Garnacho, 20, was near retired of Sunday's matchday squad against Villa and is understood to person been told he tin find a caller nine this summer.

The triumph against Villa, conscionable United's 11th successful nan convention this season, led to them finishing 15th, connected 42 points, and is accepted to beryllium nan club's worst run since nan 1973-74 relegation season.

It concluded a week wherever they mislaid nan Europa League last to Tottenham 1-0 successful Bilbao and missed retired connected a spot successful nan Champions League.

It is thought nan travel will make astir $10m (£7.8m) for nan club, but comes astatine nan extremity of a play wherever United person played 60 games successful each competitions.

The mostly of nan first squad person travelled including defender Matthijs de Ligt, who has not played since 4 May because of wounded and Netherlands world team-mate Joshua Zirkzee, who has conscionable returned from a agelong lay-off pinch a hamstring injury.

Andre Onana and Luke Shaw, who missed Sunday's game, are included, arsenic is seasoned defender Jonny Evans, 37, who is leaving nan nine astatine nan extremity of nan season.

Victor Lindelof and Christian Eriksen, who person besides confirmed their departures, person not travelled for "personal reasons".

Argentina defender Lisandro Martinez, who suffered an anterior cruciate ligament wounded successful February, does not travel, while Noussair Mazraoui and Leny Yoro besides miss retired pinch injuries.

There are a batch of inexperienced players arsenic well, who Amorim will want to measure earlier deciding nan style of his squad for adjacent season.

Jaydan Kamason, Godwill Kukonki, Tyler Fletcher, Sekou Kone and Jack Moorhouse are connected nan trip, having caught nan oculus astatine younker level this season.

While it is anticipated Ayden Heaven and Chido Obi will beryllium portion of nan first-team squad adjacent season.

The Red Devils will return connected ASEAN All Stars successful Kuala Lumpur connected 28 May earlier travelling to play Hong Kong 2 days later.

One of United's sponsors, Apollo Tyres, says Onana, Harry Maguire and Diogo Dalot will beryllium successful Mumbai, India connected Thursday, 29 May for a meet and greet.

United's world players will past subordinate up pinch their nationalist teams nan pursuing week.

Five days aft United's last game, Fernandes and Dalot will apt beryllium progressive for Portugal successful their Nations League semi-final against Germany connected 4 June.

United's pre-season past originates pinch a lucifer successful Sweden against Leeds United connected 19 July, earlier they alert to nan US arsenic portion of nan Premier League's pre-season tourney betwixt 26 July and 3 August.

They yet big Fiorentina connected 9 August.

Amorim has previously defended nan post-season trip, calling it a "small sacrifice" which allows nan nine to "make interaction pinch our fans astir nan world."

Defender Maguire has said: "It is nan club's determination and we don't person immoderate correct to reason against it aft nan performances we person put on.

"As players, we person to return work for nan position successful nan Premier League and nan money we person generated this play done that finish, which is obscurity adjacent bully enough.

"We don't person a correct to guidelines present and criticise nan nine for trying to make immoderate money that will hopefully thief america adjacent play pinch signings."

Defeat successful Bilbao intends United will beryllium without European shot adjacent play for only nan 2nd clip since 1990, leaving a £100m spread successful nan club's finances.

Last week, BBC Sport reported United person told immoderate unit moving astatine their Carrington training crushed that they will suffer their jobs, successful nan 2nd information of redundancies since Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought into nan nine past year.

The latest cutbacks travel against a bleak financial backdrop, pinch United losing much than £370m complete nan past 5 years.

Last season, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United flew to Australia for a post-season friendly, which was described arsenic "madness" by BBC pundit Alan Shearer.

The accrued workload connected elite players has been wide discussed this season, pinch each 3 European nine competitions expanded this play and Fifa's revamped Club World Cup starting adjacent period successful nan US.

Former Manchester City defender Michael Brown told BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast: "At nan extremity of nan season, you locomotion astir nan transportation and you get that emotion of 'I'm done, I'm finished' and you want to spell and put your feet up and person nan intelligence remainder earlier nan world games. You look guardant to nan break.

"I understand why they want to do it financially, but it shouldn't beryllium allowed."

Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson added: "Not a azygous 1 of those players will want to go, but they are commercially obliged to spell successful their contracts."