{"id":455562,"date":"2026-02-08T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455562\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T02:23:08","slug":"hargreaves-says-red-devils-have-a-mo-salah-a-new-george-best-and-a-playstation-footballer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/455562\/","title":{"rendered":"Hargreaves says Red Devils have a Mo Salah, a new George Best and a &#8216;Playstation&#8217; footballer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owen Hargreaves might be getting ahead of himself a touch as the former Manchester United midfielder claims the Red Devils have their own Mohamed Salah and a new George Best to dovetail with their \u201cridiculous\u201d teammate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/michael-carrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Carrick<\/a> has now led the Red Devils to four consecutive wins having taken over from Ruben Amorim as caretaker manager until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/frank-sack-romero-sale-spurs-manchester-united-carrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">16 Conclusions from Manchester United 2-0 Spurs: Frank sack, Romero sale, Carrick appointed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest victory came over Tottenham as goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Bruno Fernandes ensured the 2-0 win after Spurs captain Cristian Romero gave them a huge helping hand after being sent off for a studs-up challenge on Casemiro.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandes\u2019 late goal took the United captain to 200 goal contributions in just 314 Premier League appearances, which makes him the second-fastest player to reach the milestone after Wayne Rooney.<\/p>\n<p>And Hargreaves hailed the skipper for what he insists are \u201cPlaystation numbers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be honest, 200 goal involvements is ridiculous. They\u2019re Playstation numbers,\u201d Hargreaves said in the TNT Sports studio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe plays with risk but it\u2019s risk that the team benefits from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKobbie [Mainoo] in behind was fantastic again and Casemiro\u2026 those three were probably the three best players in the game, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said beforehand, under Ruben Amorim, that midfield was a weakness but that midfield three is really good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously Bruno is the best player by a country mile and I just think they look so much stronger now as a midfield three.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE MANCHESTER UNITED COVERAGE ON F365<br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-carrick-romero-amorim-mainoo-thank-inevitable-permanent-man-utd-appointment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrick has Romero, Amorim, Mainoo and co. to thank for inevitable permanent Man Utd appointment<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-ferdinand-carrick-stature-comfortable-permanent-snub-transfer-u-turn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Man Utd: Ferdinand questions Carrick \u2018stature\u2019 in \u2018comfortable\u2019 permanent snub; urges transfer U-turn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mainoo has started every game under Carrick having failed to start a single one under Amorim this season and produced another excellent display which drew Hargreaves into a comparison with United legend George Best.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never watched Kobbie play and he\u2019s not played like that. I\u2019ve never seen him have a bad game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t believe how talented the kid is. This club is all about producing academy players and he is a fantastic one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you think about the days of George Best coming through playing with flair and with risk, Kobbie is that type of player.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe takes the ball at any point and you can pass it to him anywhere on the pitch and he looks like he\u2019s playing the park with his mates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a credit to him. He is so comfortable on the ball and he is so humble. He\u2019s going to be a really special player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mbeumo scored his third goal in four appearances under Carrick, picking out the corner after a clever corner routine involving Fernandes and Mainoo to make it ten goals in 21 appearances for the season.<\/p>\n<p>He operated almost exclusively on the right flank under Amorim but has started down the middle under Carrick at the expense of Benjamin Sesko, and Hargreaves believes he has similar qualities to Liverpool hero Mo Salah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s 26, he can deliver, he\u2019s just got it,\u201d Hargreaves added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a great finisher, I said this a little earlier in the season but he reminds me of Mo Salah. He is a good finisher when he is in those areas, he doesn\u2019t get too up and doesn\u2019t get too down which I think is a brilliant attribute.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Owen Hargreaves might be getting ahead of himself a touch as the former Manchester United midfielder claims the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[424,3788,3,101752,1084,403,99,18068],"class_list":["post-455562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-front-page","tag-manchester-united","tag-news","tag-owen-hargreaves","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}