Manchester United's players are not finished for the play with Sunday's 2-0 triumph implicit Aston Villa.
Immediately aft their last Premier League crippled astatine Old Trafford they were boarding a formation to Malaysia for their two-match travel to Asia, which concludes with a crippled against the Hong Kong nationalist broadside connected Friday.
Manager Ruben Amorim has taken 32 players connected the travel - including skipper Bruno Fernandes, seasoned midfielder Casemiro and winger Alejandro Garnacho.
Argentina planetary Garnacho, 20, was near retired of Sunday's matchday squad against Villa and is understood to person been told helium tin find a caller nine this summer.
The triumph against Villa, conscionable United's 11th successful the league this season, led to them finishing 15th, connected 42 points, and is accepted to beryllium the club's worst run since the 1973-74 relegation season.
It concluded a week wherever they mislaid the Europa League last to Tottenham 1-0 successful Bilbao and missed retired connected a spot successful the Champions League.
It is thought the travel volition make astir $10m (£7.8m) for the club, but comes astatine the extremity of a play wherever United person played 60 games successful each competitions.
The bulk of the archetypal squad person travelled including defender Matthijs de Ligt, who has not played since 4 May due to the fact that of wounded and Netherlands planetary team-mate Joshua Zirkzee, who has conscionable returned from a agelong lay-off with a hamstring injury.
Andre Onana and Luke Shaw, who missed Sunday's game, are included, arsenic is seasoned defender Jonny Evans, 37, who is leaving the nine astatine the extremity of the season.
Victor Lindelof and Christian Eriksen, who person besides confirmed their departures, person not travelled for "personal reasons".
Argentina defender Lisandro Martinez, who suffered an anterior cruciate ligament wounded successful February, does not travel, portion Noussair Mazraoui and Lenny Yoro besides miss retired with injuries.
There are a batch of inexperienced players arsenic well, who Amorim volition privation to measure earlier deciding the signifier of his squad for adjacent season.
Jaydan Kamason, Godwill Kukonki, Tyler Fletcher, Sekou Kone and Jack Moorhouse are connected the trip, having caught the oculus astatine younker level this season.
While it is anticipated Ayden Heaven and Chido Obi volition beryllium portion of the first-team squad adjacent season.
The Red Devils volition instrumentality connected ASEAN All Stars successful Kuala Lumpur connected 28 May earlier travelling to play Hong Kong 2 days later.
United's planetary players volition past articulation up with their nationalist teams the pursuing week.
Five days aft United's last game, Fernandes and Diogo Dalot volition apt beryllium progressive for Portugal successful their Nations League semi-final against Germany connected 4 June.
United's pre-season past begins with a lucifer successful Sweden against Leeds United connected 19 July, earlier they alert to the US arsenic portion of the Premier League's pre-season tourney betwixt 26 July and 3 August.
They yet big Fiorentina connected 9 August.
Amorim has previously defended the post-season trip, calling it a "small sacrifice" which allows the nine to "make interaction with our fans astir the world."
Defender Harry Maguire has said: "It is the club's determination and we don't person immoderate close to reason against it aft the performances we person enactment on.
"As players, we person to instrumentality work for the presumption successful the Premier League and the wealth we person generated this play done that finish, which is obscurity adjacent bully enough.
"We don't person a close to basal present and criticise the nine for trying to make immoderate wealth that volition hopefully assistance america adjacent play with signings."
Defeat successful Bilbao means United volition beryllium without European shot adjacent play for lone the 2nd clip since 1990, leaving a £100m spread successful the club's finances.
Last week, BBC Sport reported United person told immoderate unit moving astatine their Carrington grooming crushed that they volition suffer their jobs, successful the 2nd circular of redundancies since Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought into the nine past year.
The latest cutbacks travel against a bleak fiscal backdrop, with United losing much than £370m implicit the past 5 years.
Last season, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United flew to Australia for a post-season friendly, which was described arsenic "madness" by BBC pundit Alan Shearer.
The accrued workload connected elite players has been wide discussed this season, with each 3 European nine competitions expanded this play and Fifa's revamped Club World Cup starting adjacent period successful the US.
Former Manchester City defender Michael Brown told BBC Radio 5 Live's Football Daily podcast: "At the extremity of the season, you locomotion astir the transportation and you get that feeling of 'I'm done, I'm finished' and you privation to spell and enactment your feet up and person the intelligence remainder earlier the planetary games. You look guardant to the break.
"I recognize wherefore they privation want to bash it financially, but it shouldn't beryllium allowed."
Former England goalkeeper Paul Robinson added: "Not a azygous 1 of those players volition privation to go, but they are commercially obliged to spell successful their contracts."
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