Man Utd must flog SIX of starting XI including Cristiano Ronaldo and rebuild in summer after miserable season, says Bent
MANCHESTER UNITED need to axe six senior players, including Cristiano Ronaldo and Paul Pogba.
That is according to Darren Bent, who suggests a mass clear out is in order if United want to end their nine-year streak without a Premier League title.
Bent claims Ronaldo and Pogba should be shown the door along with Scott McTominay, Fred, Edinson Cavani and Anthony Martial if they want the new manager to get results.
The ex-England international claims Pogba is going to leave anyway as a free agent in June.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo is reportedly unhappy with the state he has found the Red Devils following last summer's comeback.
Bent told : “The ones you keep are [David] De Gea, you keep [Raphael] Varane. You need a new right-back, I think.
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“I don’t think [McTominay] is good enough but he’s one of your own. Building-wise? Nope.
“I think Fred is a weird one because you have to say he’s been one in the last few weeks who has gone, ‘You know what? I’m up for this’.
"But I guess if you’re trying to start against and build a successful side, he might have to go.
“You keep [Jadon] Sancho. Ronaldo has got to go. Cavani has got to go. [Martial] has got to go.
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“[Marcus] Rashford is the one where, if the new manager fancies him, there’s something there.
"If he can get that best out of him then you keep him because he’s young.
“[Pogba] is going to go anyway, he’s on a free at the end of the season. If Manchester United have got any kind of aspirations [he should go].
“I love Pogba as a player, I really do, but Manchester United fans are becoming sick of saying, ‘We’re waiting for that consistency’. So he’d have to go.”