Any prospective technical director's pitch for Manchester United should start with the sentence 'I can make you £200million'.
Solskjaer needs six signings - a left-back, a centre-back, two central midfielders, a playmaker and a forward. He has decided where United need to strengthen and decisions should already have been taken on who needs to go. Despite United's decline, they could generate £200m from player sales.
Paul Pogba, £150m
Pogba was offered to Manchester City in 2018, undermined the club, revelled in Jose Mourinho's sacking on Twitter, has coincidentally failed to find form since Zinedine Zidane was reappointed by Real Madrid and jet-setted whilst injured. United's indulgence of Pogba has to stop.
That Pogba wants to leave is perfectly understandable. United are worse than when he rejoined, he turns 27 in March and United do not appear capable of challenging for the Premier or Champions League before Pogba turns 30. He effectively has two-and-a-half years on his existing deal with the one-year option that is at United's discretion, but issues with fitness and form have caused his valuation to plummet.
United valued Pogba at £180m in the summer and, however - if ever - he plays in the remainder of the campaign, the World Cup winner would easily command nine figures four years on from the world record £89m deal.
Jesse Lingard, £30m
Lingard, 27, is also contracted to United until 2021 and the club has the option of an extension, only he is worth about a fifth of what Pogba is. Lingard finished the 2019 calendar year without a Premier League assist or goal and Solskjaer disciplined Lingard over his crass social media activity in the summer.
You do not forge an alliance with Mino Raiola to get a new contract and Lingard does not deserve one, though that has not stopped United from rushing to renew poorer players in the recent past. A change of scenery could revive Lingard's career and restore him to the England squad.
Alexis Sanchez, £8m
United cannot recall Sanchez from his loan at Inter this month and that news appeared to perk up United supporters after the Liverpool defeat. Sanchez, 31, will probably never play for the club again. The trouble is his contract expires in 2022 and none of the money-soaked clubs in China or Qatar would match his £400,000 weekly net wages at United.
A little like Darmian, United might just have to accept whatever fee is offered for Sanchez - if one is forthcoming. Antonio Conte's demands in Milan have already caused the Chilean to break down again.
Marcos Rojo, £5m
Rojo has started five league games since he was inexplicably handed a three-year contract in March 2018 and United have tried to jettison him in all but one summer - which he was injured in. Rojo is not believed to be as injured as Solskjaer has suggested.
Rojo is 30 in March and at least has the cachet of an Argentinian international. Inclusion in their squad for the Copa America could be the springboard for a move elsewhere, but Rojo is on around £160,000 a week.
Phil Jones, £8m
From one catastrophic contract renewal to another. Jones is regarded as such a liability by Solskjaer he preferred the left-back Luke Shaw in a back three over Jones at Anfield. In his only league appearance this season at Sheffield United, Jones was substituted at half-time.
You would have thought an English centre half who made Gareth Southgate's 2018 World Cup squad would be on the lookout for a mid-season move. England are not blessed with elite centre halves and Jones would have an outside chance of making the squad of 23 for the European Championship if he moved before next Friday.
The caveat is United only gifted Jones a four-and-a-half year contract last February and nobody would be daft to offer anything like the wage he is on at Old Trafford.
Chris Smalling, £10m
Realistically, United are not going to shift nearly half of their centre halves in a single summer and Smalling, 30, is arguably a better defender than regular Victor Lindelof. Nevertheless, Smalling is receptive to a permanent stay in Rome, where he has been so impressive he was voted in the Roma team of the decade.
An England squad recall for the Euros would increase his value and, come the summer, Smalling will have two years left on his United contract.
Nemanja Matic, release
Matic has entered the last six months of his deal but there is every chance United will activate the one-year extension in order to obtain a summer fee. Matic, 31, has not disgraced himself in the recent run but is surplus for next season and on around £120,000 a week.
Timothy Fosu-Mensah, release
Like with Matic, United have the option to extend Fosu-Mensah's stay until 2021, but the Dutchman is a Jack-of-all-trades and master of none who last played for United in May 2017.
Fosu-Mensah, 22, returned from a nine-month lay-off for the Under-23s this month and has been mentioned - unprompted - by Solskjaer in recent press conferences. It could be a shop window tactic, though.
Lee Grant, release
United have the best English, Spanish and Argentinian goalkeepers on their books. Something is going to have to give there but Grant, 36, is out of contract in the summer and may be worth retaining for the coaching staff.
Cameron Borthwick-Jackson, release
The 22-year-old had a nightmare loan at Wolves in 2016-17. He had a nightmare loan at Leeds in 2017-18. He was on loan when Scunthorpe were relegated in 2018-19 and he has just had his season-long loan with Tranmere Rovers cut short.
Borthwick-Jackson last featured for the United first-team in Louis van Gaal's final Old Trafford match in May 2016. It is safe to assume the club will not take up the option of an additional year on his contract.