{"id":343673,"date":"2025-12-12T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343673\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T18:23:07","slug":"man-uniteds-amorim-unclear-about-mbeumo-amad-mazraoui-vs-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/343673\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United’s Amorim unclear about Mbeumo, Amad, Mazraoui vs. Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

MANCHESTER, England — Ruben Amorim has revealed he still doesn’t know whether he will have Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>, Amad Diallo<\/a> and Noussair Mazraoui<\/a> available to face Bournemouth on Monday.<\/p>\n

The trio are set to travel to the Africa Cup of Nations<\/a> later this month.<\/p>\n

Amorim said the club are still in negotiations with the federations of Cameroon<\/a>, Ivory Coast<\/a> and Morocco<\/a> about when they have to be released.<\/p>\n

He’s hoping to get a final decision by Saturday at the latest.<\/p>\n

FIFA have issued a statement insisting players must be released at least a week before each nation’s first game of the tournament — which kicks off with Morocco against Comoros on Dec. 21.<\/p>\n

Mbeumo’s Cameroon and Amad’s Ivory Coast begin their campaigns on Dec. 24.<\/p>\n

“We are still in conversation with the national teams,” Amorim told a news conference on Friday.<\/p>\n

“The game is Monday. They are here, they are training and we are trying to prepare all the scenarios to prepare the game.<\/p>\n

“It’s frustrating, but at the same time nobody knows who is going to play.<\/p>\n

“So it’s a good thing I think. So we have players to cope with everything and that is something. With a long week you can see a lot of things and work on several things to prepare for the game and any situation.”<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim was unable to confirm if his three players selected for AFCON will be able to play against Bournemouth.\u00a0Photo by James Gill – Danehouse\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

United will definitely be without defenders Harry Maguire<\/a> and Matthijs de Ligt<\/a> against Bournemouth.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Sesko<\/a>, who has missed the last four games with a knee injury, could return but Amorim revealed the striker has been dealing with a bout of illness which has disrupted his comeback.<\/p>\n

“Maguire is out, De Ligt is out, Ben we have to see,” Amorim said.<\/p>\n

“We have to see if he’s available. He has some food poisoning but let’s wait. We still have two trainings [before the game].”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, England — Ruben Amorim has revealed he still doesn’t know whether he will have Bryan Mbeumo, Amad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-343673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}