Ruben Amorim says Manchester United are still waiting to find out whether Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo and Noussair Mazraoui can face Bournemouth before going to the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
FIFA announced last week that the release period for the biennial championship “will be reduced by seven days and start on Monday, 15 December 2025”.<\/p>\n
United host Bournemouth that day and boss Amorim claims he is still in the dark as to the availability of his three players heading to the tournament.<\/p>\n
Boss Amorim said: “We are still in conversations with the national teams.<\/p>\n
“The game is just Monday. They are here, they are training and we are trying to prepare all the scenarios for the game.<\/p>\n
“It’s frustrating but at the same time nobody knows who is going to play, so it’s a good thing I think.<\/p>\n
“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 stuff to prepare the game in any situation.”<\/p>\n
Versatile defender Mazraoui is due to play for hosts Morocco against Comoros in the Africa Cup of Nations opener on 21 December.<\/p>\n
Cameroon international Mbeumo and Ivory Coast star Diallo play their first game of the tournament on 24 December.<\/p>\n
Asked when he expects clarity on the trio, Amorim said: “I don’t know if it’s going to be same situation.<\/p>\n
“It depends on the games, every national team has their ideas about when they want the players.<\/p>\n
“I expect today to have a decision or maybe tomorrow, but we are waiting until the last moment to have all the players to choose the best team to start the game.”<\/p>\n
Harry Maguire and Matthijs de Ligt remain absent for the visit of Bournemouth, but striker Benjamin Sesko could feature for the first time since sustaining a knee injury at Tottenham five weeks ago.<\/p>\n
“Maguire is out, De Ligt is out,” he said. “Ben we have to see.<\/p>\n
“We have to see if he’s available. He had some (food) poisoning but we’ll see. Let’s wait. We have two training (sessions) still. Benjamin we will assess.<\/p>\n
“(De Ligt) has something in his back. I don’t know for sure. Sometimes you see it’s not a big injury because he finished the game quite well against Crystal Palace, but he has some pain.<\/p>\n
“So, you sometimes think that it’s going to solve during this week but sometimes he feels a little bit of pain and we have to be careful with that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruben Amorim says Manchester United are still waiting to find out whether Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo and Noussair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-189292","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\/189292","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=189292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}