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The increased workload on elite players has been widely discussed this season with Fifa's expanded Club World Cup and Uefa's bigger Champions League format resulting in FA Cup replays being scrapped to try and ease the football calendar congestion.
This week United confirmed a second round of redundancies that will lead to up to 200 staff members losing their jobs.
Despite bringing in huge revenues from commercial, matchday and broadcasting income, United have lost more than £300m in the past five years.
On Tuesday, head coach Ruben Amorim accepted the first-team group bear responsibility for driving up revenues, as the "engine" of the club.
One way of doing that is playing overseas matches. The club is set to return to the United States next summer as part of the Premier League's pre-season tournament, beginning in late July, after the Club World Cup has concluded.
While nothing is signed off yet, it is almost certain United will head to the Far East for two fixtures against opposition yet to be agreed.
There is a window of a week between the last match against Aston Villa on 25 May and the Champions League final on 31 May, after which players have to be released for international duty.
United have a massive fan base in Malaysia and Malaysia Airlines is the club's official commercial airline partner. However, they last played in the country in 2009, while they last went to Hong Kong in 2013.
End of season timeline
17 May: FA Cup final
21 May: Europa League final
25 May: Final Premier League games
31 May: Champions League final
2-10 June: International break
15 June - 13 July: Club World Cup
Mid-July: Pre-season matches begin
9 August: Community Shield
16 August: Start of 2025-26 Premier League season
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