Manchester United defender Diogo Dalot is due to fly to Italy today ahead of completing a loan move to AC Milan.
The MEN understands Dalot, 21, arrived early at United's Carrington training complex on Saturday morning before the rest of his teammates and only spent 30 minutes on the premises before leaving.
Roma enquired about a loan move for Dalot as part of Chris Smalling's protracted permanent move earlier this week but were rejected by United.
Dalot made his first United start since June in Wednesday night's Carabao Cup win at Brighton but has lined up just once in the Premier League in the last 16 months and not played in the league since February.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer selected Timothy Fosu-Mensah over Dalot in the win at Crystal Palace in July when left-backs Luke Shaw and Brandon Williams were unavailable through injury when Dalot, capable of playing at left-back, was widely expected to come in.
Ethan Laird, the 19-year-old right-back, was promoted to the first-team squad earlier this week and United are interested in signing Brazilian left-back Alex Telles from Porto. Laird, Fosu-Mensah and the right-footed Brandon Williams could provide competition for £50m right-back Aaron Wan-Bissaka.
United have sold Romelu Lukaku, Matteo Darmian, Alexis Sanchez and Ashley Young to Italian clubs since the start of the 2019 summer transfer window and Smalling is expected to join Roma before Monday's deadline. Andreas Pereira joined Lazio earlier this week on a season-long loan.
Dalot arrived at United from Porto for £19million in 2018 but the injury-prone full-back has only started 25 times and made 10 substitute appearances. Dalot has three years left on his United contract.
