Any player who left Manchester United in the summer will feel like they dodged a bullet, but how are the six departees faring at their new clubs?
Getting out of dodge feels like a suitable expression for the players who managed to escape Old Trafford this past window but the grass may not always be greener.
Here are the eight players who departed in the summer and what they are up to.
The former £64m striker spent last season on loan at Napoli and scored 12 goals in 33 Serie A games.
That move came with an obligation to buy if Napoli reached the Champions League, which they did, and so he moved to Naples permanently for £38m this past summer.
Since then, his goals have dried up with Napoli struggling under Massimiliano Allegri.
He’s got three in the league so far this season with Diego Maradona’s former club down in 10th.
Fair play to Casemiro. He earned an absolute fortune at United, became a fan favourite and then left at the perfect time to play in Miami.
Casemiro risked pissing off former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo and his home country of Brazil by describing Lionel Messi as “the god of football,” but he stated that the Argentine’s presence in Miami was why the former Real Madrid man wanted to join.
Since moving to the US, Casemiro has started 18 games but actually played the majority of them at centre-back.
Unfortunately, Miami have kept just two clean sheets in the 14 games he’s played there but he has been overall well received stateside.
Miami qualified for the playoffs as they look to retain their MLS crown. It also probably rains a lot less in Miami than Manchester.
Defensive midfielder Collyer spent the first few months of the 2025-26 season on loan at West Brom, to then join Hull for the second half, but is now back at the Hawthorns.
He signed for a fee reported to be around £7.6m but has only played in five Championship games so far for a combined total of 280 minutes.
A hamstring injury picked up at the end of October has ruled him out for six weeks.
The Manchester-born academy graduate left the club permanently in the summer having failed to break through into the first team.
His landing spot was Swiss side Lausanne-Sport, but the centre-back only managed three games for his new club before picking up a metatarsal fracture and is not expected to return to action until the new year.
With his performances at Dortmund becoming an increasingly fading memory, Sancho is now without a club after his United deal expired in the summer.
Sancho had not played for United since 2024 and spent periods on loan at both Chelsea and Aston Villa without making too much of an influence.
Since his deal, which was valued at £250k a week, ran out, Sancho has struggled to find any club willing to get even close to that wage.
Of the options, Getafe looks the most likely, with club president Angel Torres saying they had made a final offer to sign him, although that came in mid-October and there has been no movement since.
Dortmund are apparently interested, as are Saudi clubs. But no one has offered enough for Sancho to make the move just yet. He’s still only 26.
Long-time rotation option Malacia left the club as his contract expired in the summer and moved to the US to join Cincinnati.
His best performance came against New England, where he provided two assists despite his team losing, but an ankle injury picked up in October has seen him absent ever since.
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