{"id":48499,"date":"2025-10-10T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/mainoo-and-zirkzee-manchester-united-exit-in-january-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T02:22:49","slug":"mainoo-and-zirkzee-manchester-united-exit-in-january-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/mainoo-and-zirkzee-manchester-united-exit-in-january-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainoo and Zirkzee: Manchester United exit in January?"},"content":{"rendered":"Manchester United is preparing for crucial conversations with Kobbie Mainoo and Joshua Zirkzee ahead of the January transfer market, according to sources close to the club.\n\nBoth players express concern about the lack of playing time under coach Ruben Amorim.\n\nMainoo, who requested to leave on loan at the end of the summer transfer window, saw his request rejected by the club.\n\nThe 20-year-old has yet to start a Premier League match this season.\n\nZirkzee hasn&#8217;t started a league match either and has only accumulated 74 minutes in three appearances. Mainoo, on the other hand, has 113 minutes in five appearances.\n\nAfter not being called up for the England selection in September and October, Mainoo, who started in his country&#8217;s defeat in the Euro 2024 final against Spain, fears that time is running out for him to be in Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s plans for the World Cup.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1010%2Fr1558306_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Kobbie Mainoo y Joshua Zikzee\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Kobbie Mainoo y Joshua Zikzee (en la foto la temporada pasada) han tenido dificultades para conseguir minutos en las primeras semanas de la nueva campa\u00f1a.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nZirkzee is also aware that he needs to play more regularly to have a chance of being called up by the Netherlands national team for the tournament in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, which begins in June.\n\nSources indicate that Napoli, who showed interest in Mainoo in August, could be an option if the player leaves. There is also interest from the Premier League and the Bundesliga.\n\nZirkzee has been linked with a possible return to Serie A.\n\nHowever, any agreement for Mainoo or Zirkzee would require Manchester United&#8217;s approval.\n\nSources close to the club indicate that, although both players have had difficulties establishing themselves in Amorim&#8217;s starting eleven, they remain key members in each call-up.\n\nConversations are expected to take place before the January market if their prospects of getting regular playing minutes do not improve.\n\nAn addition to Mainoo&#8217;s situation is that a youth record of more than 87 years hangs by a thread.\n\nThe United have had a player from their academy in every squad since October 1937.\n\nIn the last match against Sunderland, Mainoo was the only player who met the requirements and his possible departure could jeopardize the end of this streak.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We want to keep it. The past of Manchester United is built on young people. I don&#8217;t want to be the guy who breaks that.<\/p><cite>Ruben Amorim<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United is preparing for crucial conversations with Kobbie Mainoo and Joshua Zirkzee ahead of the January transfer market, according to sources close to the club. Both players express concern about the lack of playing time under coach Ruben Amorim. Mainoo, who requested to leave on loan at the end of the summer transfer window, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[703,7786,143,394],"class_list":{"0":"post-48499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-joshua-zirkzee","9":"tag-kobbie-mainoo","10":"tag-manchester-united","11":"tag-transfer"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}