Manchester United might be preparing for a new overhaul at full-back in the transfer window

If anything signals the latest transition at Manchester United it is at right-back. Aaron Wan-Bissaka, the £50million recruit from a mile-long list of 804 right-backs, has not played in the last eight games.

When Wan-Bissaka was recalled against Burnley and Wolves either side of New Year's Eve, his inclusion was incongruous. His second season was subdued and the third has been sub-standard.

It is not a coincidence Wan-Bissaka, one of the poster boys of United's recruitment reboot and 'cultural reset' of 2019, has lost his place since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was sacked. The hand injury he sustained at Chelsea in Michael Carrick's second game in caretaker charge was serious enough for him to miss the 3-2 win over Arsenal and he has started three times under Ralf Rangnick.

Wan-Bissaka was carried off at the end of the meaningless match with Young Boys and absent through illness for three successive matches last month. Before the minor hand injury, he had not succumbed to an ailment or injury all season.

It was only 17 months ago Diogo Dalot was such an irrelevance Timothy Fosu-Mensah started ahead of him at left-back at Crystal Palace. Dalot has lined up in United's last eight games and in 11 of the last 14.

The Portuguese has performed consistently during his run, bar an aberration at Villa Park, and benefited from undertaking a catenaccio course during his gap year in Milan. Dalot's attacking output has, however, been disappointing and he is without an assist all season. Dalot overhits crosses and Wan-Bissaka underhits them.

United may be relieved Kieran Trippier, an all-action full-back who specialises at set-pieces who they targeted in the summer, has had his transformative effect at Newcastle curtailed by a broken