Get the latest United transfer window updates, pre-season news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Marcus Rashford 's lay-off will be seen by some in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer 's squad as a chance to work themselves into the reckoning and make a mark in the first team.
From youngsters to players on the periphery of the first team, there will now be an opening and a place in the squad to claim as their own on United's left or right flank depending on where Solskjaer will want to deploy Jadon Sancho.
Here are five players who could benefit from Rashford's absence in the team. Mason Greenwood The arrival of Jadon Sancho may have seen Greenwood drop in the pecking order.
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