Nemanja Matic is set to miss Chelsea’s pre-season tour to Asia as tension grows over his proposed departure to Manchester United or an Italian club.

The Serbia midfielder is determined to join United, Inter Milan or Juventus, having concluded that he has no future at Chelsea after the £39.8 million acquisition of Tiemoué Bakayoko from Monaco, which is due to be completed over the weekend.

United remain hopeful that a deal for Matic will be struck in time for him to join their pre-season tour to the United States, but Chelsea are yet to agree to his sale and might yet prefer for him to move to an Italian club. Chelsea are short of numbers in central midfield — with Bakayoko set to miss the