“I know he’s the most loved player here currently but I have decided to remove him from the squad because of what he did yesterday”: Manchester United’s coach Ruben Amorim has decided to sell ONE player in the summer after doing ONE shocking thing against Nottingham Forest yesterday
Ruben Amorim is reported to have reluctantly advised Manchester United to cash in on Kobbie Mainoo this summer amid fears the teenager is unable to physically cope with the demands of playing in a 3-4-2-1 formation – and with a report revealing the Red Devils want to offload as many as 10 players this summer, and with four of them generating as much as £200m.
It’s not been a smooth ride for Manchester United since Amorim took on the reins from Erik ten Hag in November. While the Red Devils have eased their way through to the quarter-finals of the Europa League – a competition they will be fancied to win – their form in the Premier League remains highly inconsistent and they are yet to string successive wins together in the competition all season.
With Amorim keen to make his mark on the club and fashion a squad of players together that are comfortable in operating in his desired formation, a major turnover of players is expected this summer.
However, it won’t be all spend, spend, spend, and United are understood to be willing to show several highly-paid but underperforming stars the door to help further generate some much-needed transfer revenues.
To that end, a series of reports have suggested United could look to cash in on teenager star Mainoo this summer with the player having struggled to make an impression under Amorim.
The 10-cap England star is currently in negotiations with the club over a new deal and it was previously reported that the 19-year-old’s demands of £150,000 a week had not gone down well with co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
Now, as per the i Paper, both Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho are ‘serious options’ for United’s money men to cash in on this summer – and it gets worse for the teenage midfielder, after it was claimed Amorim is not the midfielder’s biggest fan and stating that the manager is ‘not completely convinced Mainoo has the fitness levels to be a success in his system’.
As a result, they state ‘United would therefore reluctantly sell for offers of around £70m’, sources said.
As far as far as destinations are concerned, they state ‘Mainoo is of interest to Chelsea’, while also claiming they could ‘revisit a swoop for Garnacho’, with Napoli ‘also still keen’.
