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It could Bee now or never for the unsettled Mainoo
Daily Express
|September 23, 2025
THE time has come for Ruben Amorim to show whether he does have faith in Kobbie Mainoo - as he has claimed.
United are five games into the new Premier League season and Mainoo has yet to start any of them, the midfielder having played just 76 minutes coming off the bench.
An unused substitute in the first two league games, Mainoo's only start was in United's humiliating EFL Cup exit to League Two Grimsby.
Even when Amorim deviated from his preferred central midfield pairing of Casemiro and Bruno Fernandes for the 3-0 derby defeat by Manchester City, dropping the former, Mainoo was overlooked, with Manuel Ugarte, right, getting the nod ahead of him.
When Mainoo eventually did come on at the Etihad Stadium, just after the hour, he brought more energy and mobility to United's midfield, underlining the folly of Amorim's decision to start the hapless Ugarte over him.
This story is from the September 23, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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