Scott McTominay was pushed out of Man United. The Scot could stay, but had received clear signals he was seen as a substitute. Antonio Conte and Napoli opened the door. In his debut season, the former United academy player played his way to the league title and the Player of the Year award, say no more. For United lads Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes, Kobbie Mainoo is about to become the United management’s next giant blunder.
273 minutes on the pitch this season for Kobbie Mainoo says everything about the 20-year-old’s position at Ruben Amorim. Nicky Butt can’t fathom what the management at his old club is thinking about.
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“Kobbie has to go. If you take off your Manchester United hat, I say: We’re going to get you out of that football club. You don’t have to say anything, we’ll take care of it. He has lost 18 months of development. For his own football career, he has to leave Manchester United. I hope he goes abroad. It would be embarrassing if he went to Chelsea. They might sign him because they’re building a very good young squad,” said Butt on The Good, The Bad & The Football, who previously worked as academy manager at United.
United legend Paul Scholes doesn’t hold back on what he would have said if Mainoo calls him for advice.
“You would advise him to leave. If he called me and said Chelsea were interested and asked what I thought he should do, I would have said he just had to go for it. He’s a 20-year-old boy, who needs to get away… He doesn’t play – okay, sometimes as a manager you just don’t have a liking for a player, but when they don’t play well, and considering what he’s already done in games as such a youngster, the match-winning goal in the FA Cup final, and the fact that he played almost every game in the Euros. I bet he piss on Casemiro every single day in training,” United legend Paul Scholes said.
Who believes Mainoo is being pushed out of the club.
“What’s going to happen now is that he (Amorim) will throw him out in a game, then he won’t be very good, because he needs five, six, seven, eight games. He’ll throw him in and say ‘that’s what I said.'” says Scholes.
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