Mourinho rules out loan moves for fringe players

Manchester - Jose Mourinho insists none of Manchester United's exiled stars will be allowed to leave Old Trafford on loan next month.

In the week that Anthony Martial's agent talked up the possibility of the United forward joining Sevilla on loan and Morgan Schneiderlin was linked with a £13 million ($16 million) move to West Bromwich Albion, Mourinho insists nobody will be allowed to leave unless the price is right.

Back-up goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, wanted by Stoke, Aston Villa and Sunderland, is the only exception and will be free to join one of those clubs temporarily.

"Sam Johnstone is the only player that I allow to go on loan. He doesn't play one minute and he needs to play," United manager Mourinho told reporters on Friday.

"I don't want to sell players. The club and the board is totally with me, but as I said before, if a player is not having lots of minutes and really wants to leave, we have no right to stop him leaving if the conditions are our conditions.

"And up until this moment, we have not received one single offer that we are going to accept."

That includes Albion's reported approach for France midfielder Schneiderlin, who is surplus to Mourinho's requirements and is reported to have been told he will be sold when the window opens, but only when an acceptable offer comes in.

Everton are also keen on Schneiderlin, signed for £25 million from Southampton by Mourinho's predecessor Louis van Gaal, and the Merseyside club are reportedly prepared to go to £20 million, the sort of figure that will prompt United into talking business.

The only exception to Mourinho's insistence that no players will be allowed to leave on loan is goalkeeper Johnstone and he has become expendable since the emergence of 20-year-old Portuguese keeper Joel Castro Pereira who has leapfrogged above him in United's pecking order.