Mourinho is ready to listen to big money offers for Spaniard Juan Mata, who he opted to
leave out of his first team starting line - up for some weeks in preference to using Oscar and when the former Valencia man has been used the Chelsea manager has not been impressed with his effectiveness.
Rene Meulensteen, a former coach for United has stated that Rooney will need to decide what is best for him and his family as it will only become much clearer that he is a player that will be frozen
out of first team action even more in the coming season.
But now he has dropped completely
out of first team contention and can't start a Premier League match with two many other stars ahead of him in the pecking order.
Rodgers has seen Jamie Carragher hang up his boots and Slovakian Martin Skrtel may well be set to leave the Merseyside club having been frozen
out of first team affairs in the second half of 2012/13.
Iheanacho has been frozen
out of the first team set up at the Manchester City as the 20 year old has failed to make the matchday squad in their last five games in all competitions.
The likes of Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets are certainly not getting any younger, and eventually they will
drop out of the first team.
Gibbs seemed to have slipped almost
completely out of first team contention and was widely believed to be one of the Gunners heading for the exit door this summer.
PSG coach Unai Emery admitted that Brazilian midfielder Lucas Moura and French international striker Hatem Ben Arfa are interested in leaving in January, but said nothing about Pastore and Angel Di Maria, who has expressed his annoyance at being forced
out of the first team by new arrivals Neymar and Kylian Mbappe.
He has been in - and -
out of the first team since moving to Old Trafford, but he is now emerging as one of the finest complete midfielders in the league and Mourinho has played a big role in helping him improve his game.
A team that appeared near - perfectly balanced just a few months ago now looks a rabble, and players that could justifiably claim to be among the best in the world have apologized, flounced and evaporated their
way out of the first team.
But if the academy graduate really is
out of the first team frame you would think we would make a deal to free up the wages and the place in the squad, so I wonder if Wenger may just be thinking about Gibbs as the left sided wing back in the new back three formation, or at least as his second option after the summer signing Kolasinac.
Injury problems, poor form and a shocking attitude have seen him
slip out of first team contention and at 31 - years old we surely have to say goodbye this summer, if anyone wants him that is.
There are few goalkeepers in the world who could keep
Cech out of the first team but Courtois is arguably better than the giant Czech shot - stopper and, at just 22 years of age, he has time on his side.
The young winger Alex Iwobi started this season as the breakthrough star from the Arsenal Academy, and was a regular starter in the first half of the season, but although he had some excellent performances he didn't really follow that up with actually putting the ball in the back of the net very often, and he was finally
squeezed out of the First team squad in the last couple of months and relegated back to the U23 reserve side.
Meanwhile, Memphis Depay comes and goes in and
out of the first team selections without being given the time or opportunity to build up a rhythm, and seemingly penalised for taking risks on the pitch in a position that often demands it.
Hart, whose current deal has two years remaining, helped City win a second Premier League title in three seasons last weekend, responding well to being left
out of the first team following a series of high profile errors earlier in the season.
Mkhitaryan has struggled to hold down a regular spot in the first team at Old Trafford and was once again left
out of the first team during the 1 - 0 win over Bournemouth on Wednesday night.
Van Persie has had to endure another season of injury troubles similar to those that he experienced at Arsenal, and has been in and
out of the first team under manager Louis van Gaal.
After turning down loans to Crotone (which, after their stunning escape from the drop, must feel like a mistake on his part) and Pisa over the course of the season, Paolo spent his
season out of the first team's plans.
The 31 year old defender has been frozen
out of the first team picture ever since his drugs ban and now the Ivory Coast international looks likely to leave and Roberto Mancini may well be all the more keen to sell the former Arsenal man knowing that the centre - back will be out of action for much of January and February on African Nations Cup duty.
Even United 32 year old teammate, Bastian Schweinsteiger could be heading to the MLS after being frozen
out of the first team by Mourinho.
He
dropped out of the first team and eventually became a player that drifted in and out of the squad, only to make the odd ineffective substitute appearance.
This Wolves man has been upset with being
left out of the first team, and this has only hastened talk of a move to either of these north London giants.
Similarly David Luiz found himself
frozen out of first team affairs with Mourinho making veteran John Terry an ever present and then preferring to team the Chelsea captain with Gary Cahill and the Blues have managed just two clean sheets in the eight Premier League matches the Brazilian has figured in.
Tell me something else, if Sanchez is happy to be forced to play out his contract why does a stomach pull keep
him out of the first team even for a 20 - minute substitute appearance?
He is one - dimensional and that allowed Welbeck to kick
him out of a first team spot.
Hennessey has found
himself out of the first team at Molineux for two months up until last night, when injury to Ikeme led to the Welshman coming on as sub.
no wonder gibbs is
out of the first team..
«When I came back, the team wasn't doing so well and I found myself on the bench and in and
out of the first team.
The 25 - year - old also missed the 2014 World Cup in Brazil due to a back injury which kept
him out of first team football for a year.
Davies has made over 350 appearances for the Trotters and notched up 74 goals in the process though this season he has been in and
out of the first team and hasn't started a Premier League match for over a month as N'Gog looks to have become a more favoured choice for the Bolton boss.