Rio Ferdinand has urged two Manchester United players to leave the club this month to get first team football for the remainder of the season.
Anthony Martial has joined Sevilla on loan for the rest of the campaign after slipping down the pecking order at United, and Ferdinand believes Donny van de Beek and Jesse Lingard should also depart Old Trafford before the transfer deadline on January 31.
The duo have struggled for minutes this season under former boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and current interim manager Ralf Rangnick.
Van de Beek is rumoured to be attracting interest from Crystal Palace.
Meanwhile, Lingard has been linked with moves to Newcastle and West Ham, having enjoyed a successful loan spell with the latter last season.
Ferdinand believes all three players would benefit from fresh surroundings in the second half of the campaign.
“I think Anthony Martial needs this (loan to Sevilla), he needs to play first team football, he needs to be a regular, he needs to start playing on a regular basis now on a consistent level. Ferdinand said on his FIVE YouTube channel .
“For the last year or so, or longer even, he hasn’t been a regular and he probably needed this move.
“I’m interested to see who else goes. You’ve got Donny van de Beek sitting there probably going to go somewhere, interested to see where he goes. The same with Jesse Lingard – my betting head would say probably Newcastle with Jesse. But these are players that need to go out and play football and Martial is one of them.
“When he (Martial) came he hit the ground running. The goal he scored against Liverpool you think, ‘ Wow! This kid is going to be world-class! ’
“He’s shown glimpses throughout his career at Man United where you think, ‘Wow, this kid could be ultra-special’. But then there’s been times where he’s been underwhelming and you thought, ‘This isn’t good enough’. So hopefully he improves [on loan] and it frees up a bit of space for Man United to go and get someone else.”
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