Graeme Souness names the Man Utd star who ‘doesn’t understand his position’

Kobbie Mainoo indispensable amended the antiaircraft broadside of his crippled if helium is to win successful Ruben Amorim’s Manchester United team.

That is the sentiment of Liverpool fable Graeme Souness who claims the box-to-box midfielder has ‘not got immoderate consciousness of information yet’.

It’s been a hard play for each of United’s players, with the nine languishing successful 13th successful the Premier League having mislaid 7 of their past 11 games.

Among the strugglers is Mainoo, a astonishment pursuing the 19-year-old’s singular breakthrough play successful 2023/24, which saw him play a cardinal relation successful United’s FA Cup triumph and England’s tally to the Euro 2024 final.

He’s failed to truly get going successful this campaign, with Amorim precocious admitting the teen was ‘struggling a batch defending’.

This pb to the caput manager deploying him successful a much precocious relation – an experimentation that has truthful acold not paid off.

As a striker helium was ineffective successful the 2-0 decision to Crystal Palace past week, and was a mediocre again arsenic an attacking midfielder successful the FA Cup triumph implicit Leicester connected Friday night.

‘It didn’t astonishment maine to perceive Ruben Amorim accidental that helium felt Kobbie Mainoo was not ‘comfortable’ with the antiaircraft broadside of his midfield game,’ Souness wrote successful his Daily Mail column.

‘I said past June that of the young harvest of England midfield players, Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton had a acold amended knowing of the antiaircraft duties successful that relation than Mainoo.

‘Mainoo catches the oculus due to the fact that he’s truthful bully connected the ball, drifts around, pops up connected the near and the right, but he’s not got immoderate consciousness of information yet, and empties the midfield country excessively readily.

‘Mainoo doesn’t yet recognize each the disciplines of the presumption but he’s lone 19. He tin develop, with the due guidance and instruction.’

Improving Mainoo is conscionable 1 of galore tasks Amorim faces astatine Old Trafford, with United adjacent successful enactment adjacent Sunday erstwhile they question to chap strugglers Tottenham.

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