Source: TheGuardian
Kobbie Mainoo: ‘When I try to go to the corner shop I get a bit more attention these days’
The teenager only wanted a place in the Manchester United squad at the start of the season, now he can expect to start the FA Cup final and go to Euro 2024Kobbie Mainoo conducts a conversation like he addresses the ball in Manchester United’s midfield: with a cool maturity that has been the calling card of a breakthrough season that may end in FA Cup glory and a place on England’s Euro 2024-bound plane.After making his debut at 17 in a Carabao Cup quarter-final against Charlton in January 2023, Mainoo played twice more for a season’s total of 87 minutes before, inked in for a starting berth by Erik ten Hag this term, he went down in a summer friendly at Houston’s NRG Stadium when Real Madrid’s Rodrygo fell on him and caused an ankle injury that required surgery. Continue reading......read full article
