The unspoken rules of football dictate that there is a limit on the time a senior player can spend frozen out of the first team reckoning pending a change in behaviour. What starts as a measure to prompt change gradually calcifies into something more permanent and,

Marcus Rashford appeared to move ever closer to a January move after being left out of the Manchester United squad once again for the trip to Wolves. The striker hasn’t featured for United since coming on as a substitute in the Europa League win at Viktoria Plzen on December 12.

Ruben Amorim has offered a blunt update on Marcus Rashford's future at Manchester United after the Red Devils slumped to a 2-0 defeat to Wolves

The January window will offer Ruben Amorim his first chance to put his own stamp on the Manchester United squad he inherited from Erik Ten Hag. Ten Hag was backed to the tune of more than £200million last summer after the club’s hierarchy opted to renew his contract in the aftermath of the FA Cup triumph,