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Ruben Amorim has set a promising target for Manchester United this season, but it will be a year too late for Kobi Minno and Joshua Zirkzee.
Menu was denied a request to leave the club on loan in the summer and has featured for just 237 minutes this season. Zerkezi was also linked with an exit – prompting a return to Serie A – and is now understandably so. ‘deeply disappointed’ With his 116 minutes of game time this term.
It will be a bitter pill to swallow at the best of times with the World Cup coming to the end of the campaign, but in a united team struggling for the creativity it could theoretically provide, it would be fair for both Mino and Zerkezi to question how Amorim’s teammates will be liked at this point.
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Victory over Sunderland before the international break kept Wolves from the Amorem door and Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s vote of confidence suggests his sacking is not anytime soon. But after coming up against champions Liverpool on Sunday, Amorim is still looking for back-to-back Premier League wins at Old Trafford for the first time in nearly a year, with the United manager’s target for this season due to Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and others threatening the big names of the Big Six.
“We want to go to Europe,” he said ahead of the clash with Liverpool. We need to go back to Europe.
“The success of this club is to win the Premier League. We have to be honest with our fans that we are not in this moment.
“We need to be really clear on that, so I’m not going to call it a success going to Europe, or finishing (top) eight or six, or anything. That’s not success.
“We need to take steps to succeed. Success for this club is winning the Premier League, nothing less.”
He also responded to the continued speculation about the future of Menno and Zarqzai.
“I understand that but they are our players and we all need a good season,” he added.
“I also know that everything is very noisy in our club. The players are not playing. They want to play, and there is a World Cup. There are agents who listen to the players, talking all the time.”
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The cost of failing to qualify for Europe last season, beyond the financial implications, is the lack of opportunities for those not in the starting XI this term. Getting thrown out of the League Cup by Grimsby Town adds to the woes.
Manchester United will have played 20 games this season before the January transfer window opens. If they reach the Carabao Cup quarter-finals, competing clubs in Europe will have played 27.
Apart from a crowded Premier League roster around Christmas, Amorim doesn’t need to, and won’t need to, move around like other big club managers. If he’s not going to field bit-part players on the back of international breaks that he hasn’t been a part of before, as we strongly suspect will be the case at Anfield on Sunday, what hope does Mino or Zarkezi have of getting enough game time to stake their World Cup claims?
Amorim may claim he “needs” them, but between the growing pressure from agents and the all-too-potential dressing room atmosphere created by frustration and injustice, United chiefs may feel as though they have little option but to cater to Menno and Zarkezi’s extrinsic desires.
