According to reports, Kobbie Mainoo has made a decision on his transfer \u2018preference\u2019 as he is \u2018deeply frustrated\u2019 at Manchester United.<\/p>\n
The England international\u2019s long-term future is in serious doubt as he has dropped in the pecking order at Man Utd.<\/a><\/p>\n Mainoo <\/a>enjoyed a remarkable breakout season in 2023\/24 as he emerged as one of the best young footballers in Europe, but he has suffered a major fall from grace over the past year amid his injury issues and a loss of form.<\/p>\n Ruben Amorim is clearly not sold on Mainoo as he has only been a bit-part player since his arrival, with it unclear whether the midfielder can fit into the head coach\u2019s preferred 3-4-3 formation.<\/p>\n In January, Man Utd opened the door to Mainoo leaving as they looked to sanction pure profit sales to balance the books and he attracted interest from Chelsea, who reportedly would have had to pay \u00a370m to sign him.<\/p>\n Chelsea, unsurprisingly, did not sanction a move for Mainoo at this price, with fresh reports claiming Man Utd have decided to ease their demands.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Mainoo and Garnacho to start, record signing made and Amorim \u2018sacked in the morning\u2019 in League Cup omen<\/a><\/p>\n There has been new speculation regarding Mainoo in recent days, as he has been an unused substitute in Man Utd\u2019s opening two Premier League games of the 2025\/26 campaign.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, respected journalist David Ornstein revealed that Mainoo is open to leaving Man Utd<\/a>, while The Athletic\u2019s Laurie Whitwell provided more details on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n Whitwell claims Mainoo is \u2018deeply frustrated\u2019<\/a> after being snubbed by Amorim at the start of this campaign, with his \u2018preference\u2019 being a move to a \u2018European team\u2019 amid shock interest from Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n He has also noted that the Red Devils have \u2018considered the prospect of selling Mainoo all summer\u2019 and while it\u2019s internally believed that he has \u2018areas to improve\u2019, \u2018people at Old Trafford expect him to remain a United player beyond next week\u2019s deadline\u2019.<\/p>\n MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 Despite this, Whitwell has also pointed out that Man Utd have decided to lower their asking price for Mainoo.<\/p>\n \u2018Mainoo is thought to prefer moving to the continent rather than staying in the Premier League \u2014 he explored options in Germany when coming through United\u2019s academy \u2014 even though there has been interest from closer to home.<\/p>\n \u2018When Chelsea enquired about his availability during the January window, Stamford Bridge officials were quoted a \u00a370million asking price. There is a belief United would now accept around \u00a345m, potentially even less as the deadline draws near.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to reports, Kobbie Mainoo has made a decision on his transfer \u2018preference\u2019 as he is \u2018deeply frustrated\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,818,22884,1525,44,1614,85,13852],"class_list":{"0":"post-99568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-kobbie-mainoo","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568","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=99568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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