Here are three dreadful contracts Manchester United desperately need to get off their books in the summer 2025 transfer window. All wage details are provided by FBRef.com.
DM Casemiro
There is no doubt that Casemiro is the player Manchester United most need to give the old axe in 2025, and with one year left on his contract, now is the only time for United to get some sort of a fee out of the legendary defensive midfielder from a club in Saudi Arabia.
Really, Manchester United should have sold Casemiro in the summer 2024 window instead of keeping him around to cost the team games for yet another season, as his sharp decline was evident in a beyond awful 2023/24 campaign.
Casemiro went from being a key veteran leader and a solid Premier League midfielder in 2022/23 to a joke in 2023/24, and he has not remotely recovered in 2024/25 – not even under a new coach in Ruben Amorim.
At 18.2 million pounds per season, Case is the highest-paid player on Manchester United, and his wages look like a cruel prank at this stage of his career. It’s time for him to go.
CM Mason Mount
Mason Mount has been another massive transfer bust for Manchester United, and the deal looked like a terrible idea even at the time of his signing. An overrated playmaker who clearly can’t cut it as a No. 8, Mount now has the ignominy of being known as a highly-paid player who can’t even get on the field.
In total, Mount has started just nine Premier League games in two seasons since joining Manchester United in 2023, and when he has been on the pitch, he’s been woefully ineffective, overrun as part of a lackluster United midfield.
Not only did Manchester United spend an initial fee over 60 million euros, which was asinine, but they have also been on the hook for over 15 million euros in wages per season. If they can find anyone interested in taking Mount on this summer, he absolutely has to go.
LW Marcus Rashford
Christian Eriksen and Harry Maguire are two veteran players who are making way too much money for Manchester United and offering very little, but there’s no question that Marcus Rashford takes the cake when you look at his overall wage hit.
Currently on loan at Aston Villa, Rashford’s situation is all about facilitating the right buyer, because it’s clear that he’s not going to cut it at Old Trafford and probably needs a move out of England entirely in order to be able he can be – just like another high-priced Man United winger, Antony at Real Betis.
Rashford earns more than 15 million pounds per season, and he’s neither proven himself on the left wing nor at striker for Manchester United. Outside of a small blip of form in the second half of the 2022/23 season, Rashford, despite all of his talent, has been consistently mediocre to subpar for the Red Devils.
