Manchester United Empire

🚨 Mainoo's hopes of leaving could depend on United signing a midfielder in January, after having blocked his departure in the summer when the agreements for Carlos Baleba and Conor Gallagher did not materialize. United is among the admirers of Elliot Anderson and Adam Wharton, but could come back for Baleba or Gallagher, and has also talked about Tyler Adams and Joao Gomes. [Chris Wheeler]

🚨Napoli remain interested in signing Mainoo until the end of the season, and are one of twelve clubs from England, Italy, Spain and Germany that have expressed interest in acquiring his services. Mainoo's hopes of leaving could depend on United signing a midfielder in January, after having blocked his departure in the summer when deals for Brighton's Carlos Baleba and Atletico Madrid's Conor Gallagher failed to materialize. [Chris Wheeler]

🚨 Tottenham Hotspur are exploring a move for Marcus Rashford next summer — if Barcelona decide not to make his loan permanent. (Source: Caught Offside)

🚨Man United are among the admirers of Nottingham Forest's Elliot Anderson and Crystal Palace's Adam Wharton, but could return for Baleba or Gallagher, and have also talked about Bournemouth's Tyler Adams and Wolves midfielder Joao Gomes. [Chris Wheeler]

🗞 Gary Neville coached Shaw in the Englandset-up when he assisted Roy Hodgson between 2012-16. Shaw made his England debut in March 2014. Well-placed sources say United great Neville likes Shaw on a human level but he is staggered the left back is still at the club. [samuel luckhurst]

🗣 Senne Lammens was asked the meaning behind the numbers written on his gloves today in a Q&A with Sky Sports.. his answer was a very touching tribute to Kobe Bryant: “Nobody has asked me yet.. it’s #8 and #24 [on my gloves]. When I was growing up and a young goalkeeper I had difficulties.. my personally was calm, steady, mellow.. more introverted. “Some guy gave me a book called ‘The alter ego’ - when you step onto the pitch you kind of turn into another guy.. like a mental switch. “I’m a BIG basketball guy and one of my idols is Kobe Bryant.. and his mentality, so the #8 and #24 are the numbers on his back. “When I step onto the pitch it’s a quick reminder to switch on.. so during the game I look at it. It’s a ritual that I do now.”

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Manchester United will continue to back Ruben Amorim at this stage of the season.(Fabrizio Romano)

🔮 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗨𝗣 𝗗𝗥𝗔𝗪 𝗜𝗡 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟: 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗔: 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇿🇦 South Africa 🇪🇺 European Play-Off D 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗕: 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇪🇺 European Play-Off A 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗖: 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇲🇦 Morocco 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland 🇭🇹 Haiti 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗗: 🇺🇸 United States 🇦🇺 Australia 🇵🇾 Paraguay 🇪🇺 European Play-Off C 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗘: 🇩🇪 Germany 🇪🇨 Ecuador 🇨🇮 Ivory Coast 🇨🇼 Curaçao 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗙: 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇯🇵 Japan 🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇪🇺 European Play-Off B 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗚: 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇮🇷 Iran 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇳🇿 New Zealand 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗛: 🇪🇸 Spain 🇺🇾 Uruguay 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗜: 🇫🇷 France 🇸🇳 Senegal 🇳🇴 Norway 🌍 FIFA Play-Off Tournament 2 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗝: 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇯🇴 Jordan 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗞: 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan 🌍 FIFA Play-Off Tournament 1 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 𝗟: 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇵🇦 Panama 🇬🇭 Ghana Can you see your country in this list?

🗣️ Gary Neville: "They're not good enough and they're not as good as I think Ruben Amorim would want them to be. They're not as good as I'm sure that the people in the director's box would want them to be. And certainly not as good as I'd like them to be because I'm not seeing anybody out there that I don't think wants to be.  I'm not seeing any sort of what would be the managers lost the dressing room. There's none of that type of stuff. But why aren't we seeing this real fierce approach and attitude towards the game? I don't know."

🚨 BREAKING: Kobbie Mainoo is set to seek a loan move in January amid deep frustrations over game time under Ruben Amorim. Manchester United are expected to only make a decision after AFCON. [laurie whitwell]

#FreeMainoo

🚨📸 Paul Scholes via IG on Ruben Amorim’s treatment of Mainoo: "Bullsh*t. The kid is being ruined, not being played in a team that can’t control a game of football! Hate seeing home grown players leave but it’s probably best for him now, enough is enough."

©️ Roy Keane has hammered Manchester United after that performance against West Ham: 🗣️ Keane: "Man United are playing a team in the bottom three - probably lacking in confidence and you go a goal in front. They just took their foot off the gas. Man United in their last two home games - one goal! Every time I watch Man United, they're disappointing. They weren't clinical, they weren't nasty enough to get the job done. If they won that they'd go 5th so there will be frustration. I think the standard of United's play in the last three or four games has been desperate - really, really poor. They were frightened to get the job done. Frightened to go 5th, my goodness! We're talking about 5th here. Not top of the league."

📸 | JJ Gabriel on Instagram: “Great honour to meet legend Sir Alex Ferguson.”

🎙️ | Roy Keane: “The fans are cheering everything these days. Where’s your standards?”

Ruben Amorim has won only eight of his 20 Premier League matches at Old Trafford (L9 D3).

A lineup with Bruno Fernandes, Matheus Cunha, Bryan Mbeumo, Amad & Joshua Zirkzee should create better quality chances than this. This system limits them & relies on individual brilliance rather than regular, chance creation. The evidence keeps stacking up that this is the case.

FULL TIME REVIEW - This style of football is not only painfully boring but unsustainable. - We’re too reliant on individual brilliance and set pieces. - The table is tight and we have a real chance to go 5th, but maybe not with this manager. - Too many players misprofiled. - Five defenders and two DMs and we still concede. - Subbing a CB again at 1-1… in-game management awful. - Such a disjointed performance. At home to a relegation West Ham that made Liverpool look good, and we looked bang average. Couldn’t create vs 10-man Everton. - Even at home he insists on five defenders and this parking-the-bus approach. - It’s not just bad results, the football is painfully bad when we have good players in Bruno, Mbeumo, Amad, Cunha, Maz being limited. Couldn’t beat a shocking Spurs side or poor Forest without last-min winners through set pieces or individual brilliance. This isn’t sustainable. One game a week and this squad should be performing better. An AM at DM. A RB at CB. A LB at CB. A winger at WB. A LAM at ST. A RB at LWB. Positives: Mazraoui very good at RCB. Lammens commanded his box well. Bruno tried to make things happen. Amad started every dangerous move. There’s a real opportunity for Europe with one game a week, but a manager who won’t take risks or adapt worries me. Not saying sacking Amorim fixes everything, but another coach could get a lot more from this squad. I’m worried he won’t get us back into Europe when the chance is right there.

Ruben Amorim has failed to win 28 out of 41 Premier League games with Manchester United.