Ivan Perisic flew to China with his Inter Milan team-mates on Tuesday afternoon after Manchester United failed to reach an agreement with the Italian club over a fee for the unsettled Croatia winger.

Inter have been holding out for £49 million for Perisic but after weeks of negotiation United have been unwilling to go that high.

Perisic was hoping a deal would be push through in time to avoid having to fly with Inter from Milan to Nanjing on Tuesday for the start of the club's pre season tour of China and instead join United in the US.

But sources at the Serie A club indicated that United were still some way off their valuation, which left Perisic with no choice but to join Inter's tour party.

Whether United and Inter are able to reach an agreement for the 28-year-old remains to be seen. Today was only ever an artificial deadline and the transfer window does not close until Aug 31 but United manager Jose Mourinho wants his remaining signings wrapped up as soon as possible.