When Kobbie Mainoo was linked to Chelsea before the New Year, United legend Rio Ferdinand stepped out and strongly warned against cashing in on the very backbone of Manchester United’s midfield, full of the club’s DNA. Things calmed down during January, now a former chief scout at United reports that Ferdinand will have another opportunity to be shocked.
Manchester United is in a financial pit. Ratcliffe and the INEOS gang are cutting costs where cuts can – and sometimes shouldn’t, at the same time signals have been sent from Old Trafford that the club is open to bids for academy players. Former chief scout Mick Brown still has his network intact at United, and gives an “insider” report on developments leading up to the summer transfer window.
-Kobbie Mainoo came in and saved that team as a young boy into a struggling team, and performed so well that he was called up to the England national team… It seems that they are planning to move him on to bring in more money to balance the accounts. He now has to solve the financial problems that have been largely created by INEOS and the decisions they have made,” Brown told Football-Insider.
No player is bigger than the club, but when the 19-year-old Mainoo is one of the few United players who has actually delivered in the last season and a half and is praised by both Neville and Scholes for his performances in midfield as a full-blooded veteran, then Mainoo sales become completely meaningless.
