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Manchester United's abysmal early European exit blows a £28m hole in their transfer budget... but how will Champions League failure impact on revenues, wages and Sir Jim Ratcliffe's Old Trafford buy-out?

Manchester United are out of Europe before Christmas for the first time since 2005 following yet another miserable defeat.

Tuesday night's 1-0 defeat by an already-qualified Bayern Munich not only ensured Erik ten Hag's men exit the Champions League but won't even have the consolation of Europa League football.

They finished bottom of a group also containing FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray having lost four of their six matches.

The main blow comes to United's prestige, of course, given that competing in Europe's leading club competition is where a club of such stature expect to be.