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The Dutch striker is looking to leave Old Trafford after falling out of favour with Sir Alex Ferguson towards the end of last season.

Antonio Conte's men make early enquiries for out-of-favour defender, who has previously said he wants to stay with the Serie A champions.

As the Red Queen hypothesis fell out of favour, researchers began to cast around for other possibilities.

Dida fell out of favour at the Serie A side this season, and it was suggested that he would return to his former club, Cruzeiro .

Records , mention very little of the Vindicator throughout the time of Great Crusade, it is assumed that the Vindicator fell out of favour.

When out of Favour , none know thee ; when in , thou dost not know thyself .

The present situation is not unlike the early 1980s, when 15 years of stagnation caused equities to fall out of favour.

Juventus are the latest Italian team to be linked to Real Madrid's out-of-favour winger Royston Drenthe.

I think we are out of favour with them; we have not been asked to any of their parties this year.

He 24 -year-old once again finds himself out of favour at Camp Nou having spent the past two seasons out on loan at Monaco and Sevilla .

The Club's youth philosophy has added new life to a competition that has recently fallen out of favour with England's biggest clubs.

If you buy distressed, leveraged, out-of-favour companies on the verge of bankruptcy, hoping for a turnround, you are using leverage.

When out of favour, none know thee; when in , thou dost not know thvself.

With most of its earnings from exploring and producing, PetroChina is firmly out of favour as oil prices languish.

But it fell out of favour after concerns that it could increase the risk of heart disease and kidney problems.

Cerulli notes plain-vanilla equities funds are falling out of favour, with investors flocking to aggressive bond and guaranteed funds.

He hasn't started more than 17 league games in a season since his first and he's fallen out of favour with the Brazilian national side.

Since the 1960s the traditional way of growing more food-by ploughing more land-has been out of favour.

The action caused the value of our stock to plummet, and it is still out of favour with investors.

Yet his "sunshine policy" toward North Korea is out of favour with the current South Korean government.

The once darling sector has fallen completely out of favour on the back of cooling measures imposed by Beijing.

Market fundamentalism is out of favour, the failings of socialism are still not forgotten.

It releases lots of soot and various noxious chemicals as it burns, and so has fallen out of favour in many Western countries.

Similarly, the No campaign provides a platform for out-of-favour politicians.

Bottle deposits were common in the UK 20 years ago but fell out of favour when plastic bottles and cans became cheap to make and discard.

Credit rating agencies have fallen out of favour with top investors.

Themed funds and capital-protected products are out of favour.

Spears reappeared on the list in 2009 after a few years' absence but was out of favour again in 2010.

Banks were out of favour amid concerns about earnings.

Worse, some of Wall Street's most lucrative recent creations, such as conduits and CDOs, are suddenly out of favour.

Sir Walter is out of favour with the king.

"Xinxiang shicheng" is also out of favour because it sounds suspiciously like the Chinese for "40 per cent pay cut" .

He is out of favour with the boss.

But plasmas have lately fallen out of favour because they are bulkier and more power-hungry.

The necklace fell out of favour, though she did not;