How Manchester United's squad could look next season after transformative summer transfer window

The summer of 2022 promises to be the biggest that Manchester United have faced in years.

As well as being tasked with sourcing a new permanent manager, the club is also in need of making huge changes to the first-team squad. The end of the road has been reached for numerous faces and several positions are in desperate need of strengthening.

Whilst a huge rebuilding project, one would think, will prolong United's trophy drought, the club is in desperate need of hitting the reset button and laying fresh foundations. Interim manager Ralf Rangnick has already, quite clearly, hinted at the changes that need to be made, and whilst it may sound harsh, he has delivered the verdict that someone within the inner walls of Old Trafford has needed to come out and say for years.

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The squad now finds itself in a position where the possibility of competing for silverware is nothing more than a distant dream. The defeat to Atletico Madrid brought an end to their only hope of lifting a trophy this season, meaning Paul Pogba will leave the club without having helped United return to the summit of English and European football.

He is destined for the exit this summer and he will not be the only one - that is for sure. Figures such as Edinson Cavani, Jesse Lingard and Juan Mata, who, like Pogba, are out-of-contract in June, are also certain to say their goodbyes after the Premier League season draws to a close on May 22.

But whilst those four aforementioned figures, who will all immediately lower the United wage bill in their wake, will depart on free transfers, United should be looking to offload fringe players, such as Eric Bailly, Phil Jones, Nemanja