There hasn’t been a knock on Ruben Amorim’s office door this week. The message conveyed by the Mainoo family to the Manchester United manager came in public, at Old Trafford. Jordan Mainoo-Hames, the half-brother of an underused midfielder, wore a T-shirt during United’s 4-4 draw with Bournemouth bearing the message: “Free Kobbie Mainoo”.
Amorim released him from the bench for half an hour, giving Mainoo one of his longest outings of the season. It probably was not the kind of liberation the former Love Island contestant had in mind; not when there is a theory Mainoo needs to be starting regularly, either for United or someone else, and when the transfer window reopens soon.
