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Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has acknowledged that he would choose to play Kobbie Mainoo over Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold throughout the England midfield at Euro 2024.
Mainoo endured a very worthwhile specific individual advertising and marketing marketing campaign no matter United’s struggles on the pitch.
The 19-year-old merely broke into Erik ten Hag’s plans shortly after his restoration from an hurt picked up in pre-season and has since on no account appeared once more.
He impressed collectively along with his calm and composed exhibits that all the time made him stand out head and shoulders above a number of of his senior and additional expert teammates. Mainoo capped his season by scoring throughout the FA Cup closing last weekend as United beat Manchester Metropolis 2-1 at Wembley.
Mainoo was included in Gareth Southgate’s provisional squad ahead of Euro 2024 and the expectation is that he is perhaps part of the last word guidelines sooner than the summer season season match kicks off in Germany
One participant who was not known as up by Southgate was Jordan Henderson and there was various talk about who will trade him.
It has been immediate that one decision to offset Henderson’s absence will be to deploy Alexander-Arnold barely higher up the pitch, within the midst of the park – a activity he’s accustomed to.
However, in response to Rooney who spoke on The Overlap, the Three Lions will be most interesting served through the use of Mainoo in its place of the Liverpool star.
Rooney acknowledged, ” I’ve watched Trent play in midfield a few situations and I really feel you lose various his qualities. His provide is clearly unimaginable and naturally he can determine passes from midfield, nonetheless I really feel he has to battle it out [with Walker for the right-back spot].”
“I do know Kyle is the best right-back on the planet on the minute nonetheless I really feel midfield is such an vital place. I’d play Mainoo sooner than Trent in midfield, 100%.”
“It’s not that Trent can’t play there, we observed him do it these days in direction of Everton and numerous the passes he was hitting had been unbelievable. It’s possibly solely Becks [David Beckham] who beats him in that house.”
Rooney added, “Nonetheless I really feel to play in midfield, you need that self-discipline, notably when you come up in direction of the bigger teams, and he might get found considerably bit.”
The United legend backed England to do correctly on the Euros now that they’ve a part of concern spherical them.
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