Ruben Amorim responds to Manchester United fans calling for Chido Obi-Martin debut

Ruben Amorim has suggested that Chido Obi-Martin is not adjacent to making his first-team debut for Manchester United.

Obi-Martin is regarded arsenic 1 of the champion young striker prospects successful Europe and near Arsenal’s academy to articulation United past October.

In his last play astatine Arsenal, Obi-Martin scored 32 goals successful 18 matches for the Under-18s, including 10 successful 1 crippled against Liverpool.

Since moving to United, the 17-year-old has scored 9 goals successful 10 appearances for the younker team.

With some Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee struggling to find the net, United supporters person called connected Amorim to manus Obi-Martin his first-team debut for their FA Cup fourth-round necktie against Leicester City connected Friday night.

Ahead of the game, Ruud van Nistelrooy has already confirmed that academy wingers Jeremy Monga, 15, and Jake Evans, 16, volition beryllium connected Leicester’s substitutes’ seat astatine Old Trafford.

But erstwhile asked astir the imaginable of giving Obi-Martin minutes successful the archetypal team, Amorim said: ‘He’s doing his job, he’s improving, he’s playing successful the younker teams, and we person besides different players that tin play successful that position.

‘Rasmus [Hojlund] and Josh [Zirkzee] are there, we bought these 2 players, truthful we request to amended them and past sometimes the assurance tin alteration a player.

‘We volition spot successful the extremity of the season, but, until then, we person 2 strikers that tin people goals.

‘They proved it successful the past. Let’s spot if we tin amended arsenic a team, to assistance them to people goals.’

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