Manchester United are making the wrong decision with James Garner before Liverpool FC fixture

In Gary Neville's traffic-light system ranking Manchester United's major transfers since 2013, Daley Blind was in the red.

Blind, a £13.8million signing from Ajax in 2014, enjoyed a decent first season, switching from defensive midfield to left-back, where he was integral to that sprightly spring of six successive league wins under Louis van Gaal.

In the second season, he moved inside to centre-back after Sergio Ramos led United down the garden path and United had the joint-best defensive record in the Premier League, letting in a measly 35 goals in 38 games, and won the FA Cup.

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Under Jose Mourinho, Blind bookended United's best season in the last nine years with authoritative runs of form at centre half, culminating in the Europa League final schooling of Ajax. Blind's fourth campaign was a write-off but he was worthy of amber status in Neville's system.

Blind rather encapsulates the tragicomic incompetence of the United AD (after dominance). He was privately derided as an un-United signing by Ed Woodward, who oversaw Blind's transfer back to Ajax back in 2018. The manager who signed him was Erik ten Hag, a man United now blindly back in the transfer market.

Ten Hag's judgement is so questionable United are prepared to sell James Garner, a 21-year-old untried midfielder who is a victim of his own success. Garner spent last season on loan at Nottingham Forest, away from the United madhouse, so is deemed sellable. There is not a market for United duds, who are almost exclusively unsellable.

Crystal Palace would re-sign Aaron Wan-Bissaka - for no more than £10m. United paid them £45m for Wan-Bissaka three years ago, though it is safe to say