Manager Ruben Amorim has warned Koby Mainu not to believe the hype that he is a “finished product” and focus on improving amid negotiations over the teenager’s future at Manchester United. .
The 19-year-old midfielder, whose contract runs until 2027 with the option of another year, has been a regular at United since rising from the club’s academy to the first team and is asking for a £20,000-a-week wage increase. The partnership between Mainu and Manuel Ugarte gives optimism that the pair could start together again on Sunday when United travel to Arsenal in the FA Cup third round, where Amorim suffered his first defeat since taking over. There is sex.
“I think Koby Mainu has improved a lot in recent games. I think you (media) feel like Koby Mainu is a finished product, but he’s not. He has the potential to grow even more. There’s a lot of sex,” Amorim said. “He’s a really, really good player, but he can be even better. I think he’s improving, all the players are growing, and all the players are important to me no matter what.”
United are not actively looking to sell Mainu, but would be open to a substantial offer that could help them comply with profitability and sustainability rules.
United were crowned winners of the FA Cup last season, defeating Manchester City in the final. That was enough for Erik ten Hag to keep his job in the short term, but his continued poor performance in the league this season led to his demise. Sunday will be Amorim’s first game, but it will be a very rude one against Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal at the Emirates.
The Portuguese head coach has been learning about United’s history by watching documentaries about the club, including their third-round win at Nottingham Forest in 1989-90 and their success in lifting the trophy. – Includes a documentary about how Ferguson’s job was saved.
Asked how the FA Cup could serve as a springboard for his tenure, Amorim replied: “Yes. When you believe that if you win something, you can win more, that feeling becomes addictive. Once you feel that, it’s very easy to follow suit and try to win again. ”
United have won the FA Cup 13 times, twice since Ferguson left in 2013, and Amorim, keen to progress in the competition, has no intention of rotating his team significantly. But it will be a rare start for goalkeeper Altai Bindir. United have enjoyed some free time in midweek since Sunday’s game against Liverpool, and Amorim will be hoping to find his best XI after a difficult run in which they lost five of their seven Premier League games.
“The best team depends on them (the players),” Amorim said. “But now you can see that the rotation is different. For example, Manu (Ugarte) is playing more than Casemiro. You can see that some guys are getting more positions, but I The position is always open for them. It depends on how they play and how they train. So I think we are close (to finding the best eleven).
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“We have more time (together), we have games, we have game evaluations, and now with the little trainings we are doing, we can get a better understanding of the players and how they want to play. Now it looks like this.
“Sometimes it’s important not to pick the best player in the team, but to pick the best player I think can play the position. That way we can get closer.”
