Seven matches into the new Premier League season and Kobbie Mainoo is English football’s forgotten man.

Having failed to start a single league game for Manchester United, his contribution stands at meagre 113 minutes of largely forgettable action. Something has to change.

Described by Sir Alex Ferguson as ‘the heart and soul’ of the club after helping deliver an FA Cup triumph in 2024, Mainoo’s prospects at Old Trafford have taken a bleak turn.

His absence from the team persists despite the lack of invention and guile in United’s engine room and with next summer’s World Cup firmly on the horizon, the midfielder has already tried to find a way out on loan – efforts that will be renewed before the January transfer window.

For Mainoo, it’s an untenable situation. Ruben Amorim has demanded

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