Press resistance, strong for his age and looks intelligent.
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Scott better find his warmest tracksuit for the coming season if this continues
The way he took the initiative to make a run up the right wing when everyone was static and nothing was on for Heaton
Jesus this kid is good.. does the simple things so so well.
Well, if we get that from Mainoo, I'd be over the moon. He's got all the talent you could ask for.
ETH will manage his development carefully I hope.
if the club, his family, and himself can truly take care of himself and focus greatly on this sports, he will become something definitely. Hope him make it here!
This kid has got it.
Glad he is getting a run in the team this season.
Glad he is getting a run in the team this season.
Frenkie de Mainoo.
One of my main concerns about tis season was a back up for Casemiro but I think we have him in Kobbie
Mullered Rice.
I have posted maybe 2 times in the past 2 years.
This is my third post: This kid is going straight to the top.
Baller.
This is my third post: This kid is going straight to the top.
Baller.
Yaya Carrick. Hype train has left the station.
I hope he isn't just the new pre-season Pirlo. He looks promising but people are mad expecting him to deputise for Casemiro this season, it's too soon.
All I can say is that phone tapping must be on the rise again.
First pre-season game I’ve seen and the first time I’ve really seen him but I was very impressed. Absolutely class in possession but perhaps more importantly he was great positionally, knowing when to drive forward and when to sit deep between the defenders. Thought he was a big reason we had so much more control in the first half. Really special talent. Biggest complement I can give him is that he didn’t look like a young lad out there, but a proper first teamer. Exciting times ahead and I hope he gets plenty of minutes this season.
Hopefully he won't fade out like Iqbal did last year. Reminds me a lot of Carrick. Calm composed and believes in his abilities which is great to see.
Not sure this poster knows what generational means
he's not even a DM
He's a top class talent.
Brilliant stuff.
He was really good today. It's really good that we have EtH to develop our talented youngster. You can see how he's being moulded with the positions he was taking up on and off the ball as well as drifting to the right.
If he continues like this he'll have definitely played himself into one of the CM positions.
If he continues like this he'll have definitely played himself into one of the CM positions.
Another good performance. Kid's earning a place in the squad for next season.
generational=tidy I guess?
Fearless.
Love the way he passes and makes an angle to receive it back.
Love the way he passes and makes an angle to receive it back.
100% agree. He did well but should just be involved around the squad to learn from the seniors. I don't expect more than a few Carabou cup type minutes at best.
Well Ten Hag has blocked his loan move because he wants him in the first team this coming season so that says all you need to know about the lad. The manager see's a player in him and it looks like he's going to get a few chances this season. Hopefully he can come on and have a stroll around when we're a few goals to the good here and there.
He is top class. So calm and collected. Should be in the first team now.
I think he could be our future DM. Hope we give him more game time this season, he is the real deal.
Didn't see the game but he seems ready. Pass my eye test in most matches, very calm with the goal. Should be a very long future with United. He can easily replace McTominay in midfield, let's try to get McTominay or VDB out of the club.
He was good.. best thing was that he looks physically ready... that's a big advantage for a young player..
Why too soon? Because he is only 18?
Gavi and Pedri were already first team player for Barca at same age, playing 40+ games a season.
He was never going out on loan going by what Erik said quite a while ago when he referenced Alejandro breaking into the first team and that Kobbie was on his way too.
Isn't that overcautious? Top talents like Pedri, Gavi, Vinicius Jnr, Musiala, Bellingham, etc, never had that kind of restriction you're suggesting, and they were younger than Mainoo is now.
If Mainoo got a few Carabao minutes at best he'd be getting less overall minutes this season at 18 than those players got at 17.
At some point you have to not be so fearful. He's got the maturity, he's got the physicality and the quality to cope with more than a breadcrumb of minutes, so, why shouldn't he get his fair share of PL minutes from the bench too?
Think the thing I realized seeing Mainoo today is that really good midfielders distinguish themselves by always taking the right positions in all phases of the build up, being willing to receive the ball in tough spaces, and being press-resistant. Mainoo showed a lot in all 3 today, definitely a player to look out for this season, not just in the future for me.
Dan Gore is ahead of him !
TH loved to bring the youth through at Ajax, so I've read, so this could be another Garnacho seaon for Mainoo. He deserves a chance.
One of the best on the pitch tonight. Hopefully he can translate it better to competetive games than Pereira.
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