The recently naturalised defensive midfielder has fallen out of favour at the club since he was excluded from United's Asian Champions League squad under an AFC ruling.

Despite taking out Australian citizenship, Salley still counted as a foreign import for the competition because he hadn't lived Down Under for five years.

But since then Salley has become the forgotten man for the Reds - and now he's over it.

"For me I need to move on," Salley told the Adelaide Advertiser. "I've already made up my mind. I don't know what's going on.

"I was looking forward to playing here but it doesn't look like it's going to happen and that's the way it is."

No-one has talked to the player about his exclusion from the side, adding insult to the injury.

In the last nine hours of playing time, the former Ivorian has been on the field for less than hour.

"I'm here just training, training, I don't know what I'm here for," he said. "I haven't spoken to anyone about it."

"For me it's not the best way, if you're not going to use someone tell him why he's not playing."