No Manchester United player is safe from being sold, as the club aim to rebuild the squad to suit Ruben Amorim's preferred playing style - but Manchester Evening News readers in the comments section have warned that United run the risk of selling the "crown jewels" in their race back to the top.

As of the start of the January transfer window, the club will reportedly consider offers for any United player, with the team's poor form leaving many squad members vulnerable. During the summer transfer window of 2024, only Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho, Rasmus Hojlund and Andre Onana were considered "untouchable" - but even they aren't safe as 2025 begins.

Academy products Mainoo and Garnacho could be especially vulnerable despite having performed so well in the past. Their sales would represent "pure profit" for the club under Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR), which could be reinvested to address other problems in the squad.

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Hojlund has only managed two goals for United this season, despite a £72million price tag, with the club looking at new forward options. Goalkeeper Onana has made high-profile errors since his arrival 18 months ago, and Amorim is known to want more competition between the sticks.

Reader Anniemause reckons there's danger in moving too far, too fast this transfer window: "It's no way to run a football club and no way to build a successful squad. Considering the debacles over Pogba, Ronaldo, Sancho, De Gea and Greenwood even before that what on earth are top players (and more importantly their agents) available for transfer going to think of United? Why would any footballer risk their career on such a flawed, haphazard and unstable regime? For all we know anyone from Berrada to the ball boys and girls could be gone before the summer.

"And that's the key point. For United to succeed they need a level of stability and project a sense of it and until its achieved they will find it difficult to attract the sort of quality they need to advance the club. So instead of fueling the transfer speculation around the current squad as they seem to be doing they need to dampen as much of it down as possible. Needless to say the idea of selling "crown jewels" is self-destructive in the extreme and wholly the wrong thing to be doing just now."

Commenter JasperJH writes: "Mainoo and Garnacho would be pure profit and would be the only realistic way that Amorim could muster a warchest for a rebuild. Other than these two, I can see no other way of raising the sort of money that Amorim requires. If we sell Hojland and Onana, they might just about cover their future amortised costs with respects to FFP rules."

Adam80 disagrees: "But if you do sell your two best assets, the only players in the squad with star quality and development potential, all you acquire is enough money to buy two other quality players, and all the rest of the deadwood in the squad is still there, so, in fact, this doesn't result in any change in the situation of the club."

Madridred says: "How can there be any untouchables on a squad that has won nothing and under-performed for years? Only United spend this amount of money on average players, there is no way Real Madrid would pay £72m for Rasmus or £84m for Antony not to pick on those players, but United is not a well run club and everyone knows it. It's just convenient to blame the players when they don't make any decisions. I want the club to win as much as anybody else, but this cycle has to stop."

Tonyunited writes: "Amad and Mainoo are the future, the rest can be sold." Dambuster007 would protect those young stars, too: "Rasmus and Onana I get, but to sell Mainoo or Garnacho would be crazy."

RociLal has a different set of "untouchables" in mind: "No player is bigger than the club. The only players worth keeping for the long term based on their performance level, age and wages are Amad, Yoro, Ugarte, De Ligt and Mazraoui."

Have your say! Should there be any "untouchables" in this Manchester United team? How much does stability in the squad matter to you? Comment below, and join in on the conversation.