Manchester United have confirmed that Victor Lindelof, Jonny Evans and Christian Eriksen will leave the club at the end of the season.
All three players featured in Sunday’s two-goal victory over Aston Villa, with Eriksen scoring from the penalty spot and the Denmark international joining centre-back duo Lindelof and Evans in their Old Trafford farewells.
Eriksen, 33, scored eight goals across three seasons and 107 first-team appearances for United, having joined as a free agent in the summer of 2022 following his release by Brentford.
The midfielder had previously played for Ajax, Tottenham Hotspur and Inter, with a six-month break from football after suffering a cardiac arrest in 2021 while playing for Denmark at the European Championships.
Lindelof is one of United’s longest-serving players, having signed from Benfica in 2017 and made 283 first-team appearances for the club over eight seasons.
The Sweden international was signed by Jose Mourinho and he established himself as a regular under the Portuguese manager and his successor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, making upwards of 40 appearances for three successive seasons from 2018 through to 2021.
The 30-year-old has not had such regular game-time since with the 2024-25 season seeing a further reduction with the centre-back starting in just six Premier League matches.
Evans, capped 107 times by Northern Ireland and a United youth graduate, made 240 first-team appearances across two spells at Old Trafford, with spells at West Bromwich Albion and Leicester City either side.
Jonny Evans’ departure means that next season will be the first at Manchester United since 1973-74 without a player who played for the club under Alex Ferguson.
— Will Jeanes (@will_jeanes) May 25, 2025
United’s 2024 signings of defenders Matthijs de Ligt, Leny Yoro and Noussair Mazraoui, alongside the January arrival of Ayden Heaven, had further pushed Lindelof and Evans down the pecking order at Old Trafford.
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