Paul Scholes has warned Kobbie Mainoo is “being ruined” by his lack of chances under Ruben Amorim and suggested he needs to leave Manchester United for the good of his career.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old had the world at his feet after a stunning breakthrough campaign in 2023\/24, which ended with the academy graduate scoring the winner in the FA Cup final and breaking into the England set-up.<\/p>\n
But the midfielder has gone from starting the Euro 2024 final for his country to struggling for game time at United, resulting in him requesting a loan move in August.<\/p>\n
That was rebuffed and Mainoo is still waiting for his first Premier League start of the season, with Amorim even overlooking him for a role off the bench in Thursday’s 1-1 home draw with West Ham.<\/p>\n
The United boss last week said he considered Mainoo “a starter”, but club great Scholes has taken umbrage with the Portuguese\u2019s approach to the player.<\/p>\n
“Bull****,” he was reported to have said in a now-deleted Instagram story that reposted the manager\u2019s quote.<\/p>\n
“The kid is being ruined, not being played in a team that can\u2019t control a game of football.<\/p>\n
“Hate seeing home grown players leave but it\u2019s probably best for him now, enough is enough.”<\/p>\n
Mainoo\u2019s only start for United in all competitions came in August\u2019s humiliating Carabao Cup exit at Grimsby and Amorim\u2019s reluctance to utilise him has been a hot topic all season.<\/p>\n
“Of course, I understand (the constant questions about Mainoo) and my job is to answer,” the frustrated United boss said when previewing Monday\u2019s trip to Wolves straight after the 1-1 home draw with West Ham.<\/p>\n
“But I am trying to answer always the same thing and you ask me always the same thing.<\/p>\n
“I understand what you are saying. You love Kobbie. He was\u2026 he starts for England, but that doesn\u2019t mean I need to put Kobbie (in) when I feel I shouldn\u2019t put Kobbie (in), so it\u2019s my decision.”<\/p>\n
Mainoo won the last of his 10 England caps in September 2024 and has not been selected by Thomas Tuchel since he took charge at the start of the year.<\/p>\n
He will be wondering if he has any chance of making it to next summer\u2019s tournament and, more immediately, what he can do to get minutes at United.<\/p>\n
Asked if he could see how the lack of a Premier League start could be demoralising and deflating for Mainoo, Amorim said: “I see it. I see it and I just want to win.<\/p>\n
“I try to put the players\u2026 I don\u2019t look who it is, I don\u2019t care about that. I just try to put the best players on the pitch.<\/p>\n
“You have (Manuel) Ugarte that played two games, one of them Case (Casemiro) was out. Bruno (Fernandes) is always fit, he\u2019s the guy that is doing his position so maybe it has to do with that.”<\/p>\n
Pushed on whether Amad Diallo and Bryan Mbeumo going to the Africa Cup of Nations could present an opportunity for Mainoo, Amorim said: “I don\u2019t know what is going to happen. It depends.<\/p>\n
“If I see in the training it is the best thing, I will put it. That is the only way I know how to respond to that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes has warned Kobbie Mainoo is “being ruined” by his lack of chances under Ruben Amorim and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-176880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}