Man Utd Legend Sends Challenge To Kobbie Mainoo

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Rio Ferdinand has challenged Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo to travel nan illustration group by Casemiro successful his bid to salvage his early astatine Old Trafford.

33-year-old Casemiro has endured a mixed tenure pinch United and it was not excessively agelong agone that he was facing hopeless pleas from fans to prosecute a move elsewhere, pinch galore supporters arguing he was a ammunition of nan midfield enforcer that had won 5 Champions League titles pinch Real Madrid.

Now, however, Casemiro is among nan first names connected nan squad expanse successful Ruben Amorim’s resurgent side, possibly astatine Mainoo’s expense. The 20-year-old academy postgraduate has struggled for minutes nether nan Portuguese leader and has not started successful nan Premier League this season.

A request to time off connected indebtedness successful nan summertime was rejected, leaving Mainoo forced to judge short cameos precocious connected successful games while his dreams of travelling to nan 2026 World Cup pinch England look to fade.

Ferdinand urged Mainoo not to telephone clip connected his United profession and alternatively look to nan contented of Casemiro, who has proven really to conflict backmost from nan fringes of nan first team.

“Watch and learn,” he said connected YouTube. “There was a subordinate being told he’s not bully capable for Manchester United, precisely what Mainoo’s been through. I deliberation character-wise, personality-wise, there’s a batch to study from Casemiro.

“Yes there’s football-wise excessively but they are very different players.”

Ferdinand hailed Casemiro for his activity to get backmost successful nan team. / Ben Roberts/Danehouse/Getty Images

Ferdinand besides touched connected Mainoo’s position arsenic a homegrown talent—something that could harm his chances of a January departure—as he accused different academy graduate, Marcus Rashford, of failing to show nan conflict needed to triumph Amorim over.

“[Casemiro’s fight] is what I deliberation a batch of fans would person wanted from Rashford, from [Jadon] Sancho from Antony, those guys person gone elsewhere now,” he continued.

“Especially Rashford because he’s homegrown. Just enactment and fight, beryllium present and conflict for it, beryllium a Man Utd player, clasp on, grit your teeth and clasp connected by your fingernails. But sometimes it’s conscionable not nan way.”

Ferdinand did confess, however, that Casemiro’s resurgence has had a nonstop effect connected Mainoo’s bid for minutes successful United’s midfield.

“You’ve sewage Casemiro, a man successful shape and Bruno [Fernandes], nan astir breathtaking subordinate we’ve got, it’s going to beryllium difficult for Kobbie to get successful present correct now,” he acknowledged.