Roy Keane has taken aim at one Manchester United star who he believes is “surrounded by idiots” ahead of the January transfer window.

Roy Keane urges Kobbie Mainoo to fight for Man Utd place

The Old Trafford legend delivered his verdict on Kobbie Mainoo’s current situation. The Carrington graduate has been left to watch on from the bench for much of this season after being denied the chance to leave on loan in the summer.

It’s been a topic at the centre of debate around Old Trafford ever since the start of Ruben Amorim’s tenure and one which has seemingly frustrated those around the midfielder. So much so that Mainoo’s half-brother, Jordan, was pictured wearing a “free Kobbie Mainoo” T-shirt as Man United were held to a frantic 4-4 draw by Bournemouth on Monday.

Having his say on the matter on the latest edition of Stick to Football, Keane didn’t hold back – saying: “Are you telling me he can’t sit there for another six months?

“He might think the manager might be gone in the summer, one or two of the senior players might be gone. He’s 20 years of age, what’s wrong with sitting and learning your trade? And even if you’re not getting a chance, we’ve all had to do it at different levels.

Related Man Utd now eyeing stunning four-man transfer raid including "brilliant" defender

INEOS could spend big once again.

Posts ByTom Cunningham

“Sometimes a manager is on your case and what you have to do is look at a manager and go ‘I’ll prove you wrong’. Every day is your challenge to prove to the manager and when that manager is picking the team I’m going to train like a beast and when you’re writing that team (as a manager) you’re going to go, ‘he has to play’. He’s got to get that in his mindset.

“And when he’s got his idiot of a brother doing all that… we shouldn’t even be giving his brother the time of day. Sometimes you’re just surrounded by idiots, especially the families.”

What next for Kobbie Mainoo?

With Bruno Fernandes also causing plenty of controversy after an interview earlier this week and Bryan Mbeumo heading to AFCON this month, Mainoo’s brother couldn’t have timed his protest any worse. Now, more than ever this season, the midfielder could get his chance to impress Amorim.

It would be to the benefit of everyone involved at Old Trafford if Mainoo earned his place back and got back to his best form.

It wasn’t so long ago when the 20-year-old was scoring FA Cup final goals and earning the praise of Paul Scholes, who said on Instagram: “Just love the way he receives the ball, the calmness, the awareness of what’s around him and of course big goals in big games. This boy is special.”

Subscribe to our newsletter for clearer Man United transfer analysis Curious about player futures and transfer talk? Subscribe to the newsletter for clear, expert context on Man United moves and wider football storylines — incisive analysis that separates rumor from informed transfer perspective and context. Subscribe Subscribe to our newsletter for clearer Man United transfer analysis Curious about player futures and transfer talk? Subscribe to the newsletter for clear, expert context on Man United moves and wider football storylines — incisive analysis that separates rumor from informed transfer perspective and context.

---

Subscribe

By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept Valnet’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime.

Whether Mainoo takes Keane’s advice and stays put at Man United next month remains to be seen, however. As things stand, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Everton are all reportedly eyeing his signature.

Amad upgrade: Man Utd in talks "this week" to sign "unplayable" PL talent

West Ham United briefly moved back up to fifth after securing a 2-1 win over 10-man Everton on Sunday.

Aaron Cresswell gave the Irons the lead with a stunning free-kick in the 32nd minute, sending a relegation-threatened Toffees side into half-time trailing 1-0.

The visitors hauled themselves back into the game as Mason Holgate scored the equaliser eight minutes after the restart, sparking life back into Frank Lampard’s Everton side. However, upon his return from injury, Jarrod Bowen responded immediately, netting West Ham’s winner just five minutes later.

The away side were reduced to 10 men when Michael Keane received his second yellow card of the game after pulling Michail Antonio down. This dealt Everton a huge blow and ensured that David Moyes’ side were able to come away with the three points.

[web_stories_embed url=”https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/web-stories/west-ham-latest-developments-4/” title=”West Ham latest developments!” poster=”” width=”360″ height=”600″ align=”none”]

West Ham briefly moved back up to fifth place in the Premier League table before Tottenham came from behind to dominate Newcastle 5-1 later in the day, sending the Hammers back down to sixth.

However, despite the three points, a number of West Ham’s players struggled throughout the match against Everton.

Here at The Transfer Tavern, we delve into the three worst-rated starting outfielders for the Irons as per statistical specialists SofaScore, with players required to feature for at least 45 minutes for ranking. This trio lost possession 36 times and collectively made just three tackles, failing to produce a single interception.

Craig Dawson – 6.7

Playing the full 90 minutes, Dawson failed to make a single interception at the back and won just one tackle, not the most convincing returns for a centre-back.

The 31-year-old topped this performance off by losing the ball on 10 occasions.

Tomas Soucek – 6.7

Soucek struggled to hold the fort in midfield against the Toffees. As a defensive midfielder, he made just two tackles, further highlighted by being dribbled past on one occasion. More concerningly, he failed to make a single interception, disappointing for a player in the middle of the park who is there to break up play.

However, he wasn’t much better when he did have the ball at his feet, as he lost possession 13 times.

Michail Antonio – 6.6

An issue for Moyes with Antonio being his only senior striker, the Jamaica international struggled in front of goal.

FootballFanCast General Stay ahead in the world of football analysis, commentary, and fan insights with FootballFancast. Subscribe FootballFanCast General Stay ahead in the world of football analysis, commentary, and fan insights with FootballFancast.

---

Subscribe

By subscribing, you agree to receive newsletter and marketing emails, and accept Valnet’s Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. You can unsubscribe anytime.

He had just one shot on target all day, with another failing to test Jordan Pickford. The 32-year-old could have finished Everton off sooner with two big chances, but they both went to waste.

Antonio lost the ball on 13 occasions and struggled to add to the team defensively, having failed to make a single tackle or interception.

In other news: David Moyes provides Ben Johnson injury update

Chasing a target of 380 in the fourth innings, Goa were 26/1 at stumpson the third day of their Ranji Trophy South Zone clash againstHyderabad at the Nuclear Fuel Complex ground in Hyderabad. Earlier thehosts declared their second knock at 239/8 thanks to half centuriesfrom Daniel Manohar and Vanka Pratap.In the morning Goa added just a solitary run to their overnight scoreof 174/9 before succumbing in the third over of the day and concedinga 140 run first innings deficit. Venkatapathy Raju took his inningstally to 5/16 with the last scalp.Hyderabad openers Daniel Manohar and Nanda Kishore gave a solidfoundation at the top of the order with a 65 run stand inside 15overs. The Goan attack intervened by capturing two quick wicketsbefore Manohar found another able ally in Vanka Pratap with whom hebuilt a 60 run fourth wicket stand.Manohar finally fell for 82 (131 balls, 6 fours) and although SayyadKhalid effected a middle order slump by taking four of the next fivewickets, Pratap guided Hyderabad safely through to the declarationfive minutes after tea. He remained undefeated on 77 (118 balls, 7fours).

Zaheer Khan: five wicket bag brings India back into the Test on remarkable third day

This was a day of Test cricket neither New Zealand nor India will want to remember, but tomorrow, around lunchtime, it is a match one team will struggle to forget.After 22 wickets fell in the 105 overs bowled, and a part of all four innings featured, New Zealand were left needing 136 runs with 10 wickets in hand to secure a victory while India know there is still a chance for them to draw the National Bank Series if they can create the mayhem they did today when bowling New Zealand out for 94.New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming said yesterday it would be the team that wanted to win the match most that would take it – and that is the challenge ahead of both teams tomorrow.The remarkable first innings which saw India out for 99 and New Zealand for five runs less is the lowest innings total from which the team batting first has secured a first innings lead.Whatever else the record books may say, and the 94 was New Zealand’s lowest score in a Test against India, surpassing the 100 scored at Wellington in 1980/81, a match they went on to win, the day itself is unprecedented in New Zealand cricket history.As disappointing as New Zealand’s failure to build a significant first innings advantage, so too, was India’s inability to score more than 154 in their second innings.Traditionalists might wonder whatever happened to good, old-fashioned technique? It was nowhere in evidence on either side, no matter what the reputations of the players concerned.Conditions were difficult, just as they were for India on the second day, but the New Zealanders knew that.However, that didn’t stop the New Zealanders playing some shots that defied the logic of the situation facing them. India in their second innings capitulated as badly as they have in each of their Test innings in the series.Was New Zealand’s batting in the first innings the result of being 1-0 up in a two-Test series? Or was it a hint that Mark Richardson was more of New Zealand’s saviour in the first Test than was earlier appreciated?The batting is not in good shape, and given a seven-match one-day series is next on the menu, there is plenty of cause for concern.Lou Vincent sent a regulation catch for first slip Rahul Dravid off Zaheer Khan.Richardson was leg before wicket to Khan, although it had to be wondered why, if Richardson was out why Fleming who was even more in line when he was struck an over earlier wasn’t out?Craig McMillan spent 28 minutes over an unconvincing four before going in similar fashion to Vincent.Nathan Astle launched into a cut in the direction of backward point off the second ball he faced but found Harbhajan Singh waiting to accept a not-too-difficult chance.Fleming was upset by movement around the sightscreen for a long period and then once it was sorted offered a straightforward return catch to Khan.Jacob Oram had a rush of blood and failed to apply full power to his attempted drive after going down the wicket to Harbhajan, generally fatal and no different in this case.Styris then fell leg before wicket to Harbhajan, to be followed by Robbie Hart who went leg before wicket to Khan, both of them being reasonable shouts.Daryl Tuffey played some of the best strokes of the innings but wasn’t able to turn quickly enough after being sent back by Daniel Vettori and was run out on the third umpire’s call and he was followed by Vettori who edged Khan to V V S Laxman at second slip.India’s second innings was fortified largely by an innings of hope from Sachin Tendulkar worth 32 and another innings in miniature from Dravid who was out for 39. Tendulkar played on a ball from Tuffey while Dravid opened up to a wider ball from Oram and cut it to substitute fieldsman Michael Mason at point.Virender Sehwag, dropped down the order to allow the opportunity to play more of his shots, confirmed the worth of that theory by lashing 25 runs off 18 balls, being especially severe on fast man Shane Bond. However, Bond had him out in an over in which he had taken 14 runs from Bond, when an off drive was well taken by Tuffey at mid-off diving forward to snare a rocket-like shot.And at the end Harbhajan contained his natural bent long enough to accumulate 18 runs before edging a ball to Hart.But it was controlled spells of bowling from Oram and Tuffey, who each took four for 41 that got New Zealand back in the match, and the opportunity to take a 2-0 scoreline from the series, something few anticipated before the series started.Khan and Harbhajan appeal as the biggest hurdles New Zealand will have to overcome.

Middlesex have announced that chief executive Vinny Codrington has resigned from the position with immediate effect. Codrington has been the club’s chief executive since 1997, making him one of the longest-serving administrators in the game.Recent weeks have seen Middlesex caught up in a scheme to sell on Ashes tickets for Lord’s set up by former players Chris Rogers and Tom Scollay. Rogers, the Australia opener, had planned to use tickets granted to him by Middlesex as part of hospitality packages for the second Ashes Test, contrary to the regulations.Codrington denied that the episode was a motivation in him stepping down halfway through the season, however. The MCC, with whom Middlesex have a tenancy agreement at Lord’s, are understood to still be investigating the matter.”Over the past few years, I have become increasingly aware of my desire to seek a new challenge and now is a good time for me to make that move,” Codrington said. “Once I had made that decision, I felt it was in the best interests of both parties for me to move on immediately, so I requested a release from my contract. I am grateful to Middlesex for agreeing to that request.””Being the chief executive of a sporting organisation is emotionally draining in every sense. After 18 years, this does catch up with you and that is why I have been considering my position. People may assume that the Chris Rogers ticket affair was a factor in this. I cannot deny that we, as a club, made mistakes on the issue. However, it is not a factor in my resignation, nor was I asked to resign by the club.”Codrington leaves Middlesex with them re-established in Division One of the Championship. They won the Twenty20 Cup in 2008, as well as the Division Two title in 2011, but silverware was otherwise in short supply.”It is with regret that we have accepted Vinny’s resignation,” Middlesex’s chairman, Ian Lovett, said. “In the modern era, it is almost unheard of for a chief executive to spend 18 years at the same sports club. That achievement is testament itself of Vinny’s great talents and his endless commitment to the club; he has made a quite remarkable contribution to the development of Middlesex cricket, both the professional game and, in many ways more importantly, at recreational level.”

Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin will travel to the Midlands and is expected to play in Australia’s tour match against Derbyshire as he seeks to regain his place after standing down from the team for the Lord’s Test for family reasons.As Peter Nevill made himself at home in the XI who dealt out a 405-run hiding to England, Haddin spent parts of the match in hospital with his ill daughter, Mia. Nevill’s seven catches – a record for a wicketkeeper on Ashes debut – and 45 nifty runs were significant aids to Australia’s cause, but as the senior man, Haddin will be given the chance to press for his place.None of the vice-captain Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Johnson or Josh Hazlewood will make the journey to Derby, allowed some time off in London after their exertions over the first two Investec Ashes matches. The coach Darren Lehmann said the tour match would be a factor in the deliberations he and the selection chairman Rod Marsh have about whether Nevill should stay or Haddin return.”Selection’s always difficult, so Rodney and I will have to sit down and work out which way we go,” Lehmann said. “We have to get Brad back playing cricket before we cross that bridge, if that makes sense. Just trying to work out what happens moving forward and hopefully he’ll be available for the Derby game.”Both Nevill and the allrounder Mitchell Marsh made strong contributions to a winning team, Marsh’s energetic batting and high impact bowling providing a marked contrast with the performance put on by Shane Watson in the first Test. Lehmann said the selectors were gratified by the way their changes had helped the side, and now looked forward to watching England face some of the harsh critiques directed the tourists’ way after their opening defeat in Cardiff.”It’s always tough to have those decisions to make, one forced and one unforced,” he said. “For us we were really pleased with both performances from Mitchell and Peter, I thought they did a really good job for us and injected some enthusiasm in the group, played really well and did their job, which was pleasing for us.”For us it was about doing a lot better job than we did in Cardiff, I was really pleased with the way the players turned that around really quickly in a short space of time. It’s a good thing for us to have that short break, they’ve got a bit more time to think about it,” Lehmann said.”The media gave us a pretty torrid time in Cardiff and fully deserved, we didn’t play well enough, it’ll probably be the same for them for a bit. For us it’s about getting on with the next game. We will have to play with the same intensity we had in this game, if we back that up then the result will look after itself.”Lehmann offered rich praise for Mitchell Johnson, who terrorised England on an unhelpful surface, and also gave a broad tick to the whole bowling attack. After two Tests they have picked up the full tally of 40 English wickets – take 100 over the five Tests and there will be little doubt as to the destiny of the Ashes.”He was brilliant today, bowled fast, I thought he bowled alright in Cardiff and bowled better in the second innings,” Lehmann said of Johnson. “He didn’t get the rewards he would have liked but he’s a great athlete to watch, we enjoy watching him when he’s on song. He’s had some difficult times in England in the past but he’s a different Mitchell Johnson you see playing for Australia now.”Our whole bowling group was fantastic, even Mitch Marsh and I thought Nathan Lyon bowled beautifully as well today and first innings. The whole bowling unit got us 20 wickets again, and we’ve done that for the last four Test matches, they keep finding a way, and that’s really important when you’re trying to win Test matches all the time.”

Chris Tremlett, the former England pace bowler who was a key part of the 2010-11 Ashes victory in Australia, has announced his retirement after conceding that his body cannot stand the rigours of professional cricket any longer.Injuries have been a regular theme of Tremlett’s 16-year career – he made his debut for Hampshire in 2000 before moving to Surrey in 2010 – and the latest problems with his back limited him to three Championship matches this season. His last first-class appearance came against Glamorgan at Guildford since when he has taken specialist advice which led to the decision to call time on his career.”Unfortunately injury has hampered me throughout my career and now plays the leading role in my decision to retire,” he said. “My body, and back in particular, can no longer withstand the vigour of performing at the level required to play professional cricket and after taking specialist advice this latest injury means that I will not be able to carry on.”I have always tried to give 100% commitment and effort whenever I have played but no longer feel that this is possible. Surrey now have an exciting generation of cricketers breaking through and I wish the club every success in the future.”Tremlett played 12 Tests, 15 ODIs and one T20 for England. He made his Test debut against India, at Lord’s, in 2007 and bowled impressively in his first series but, through a combination of injury and a lack of consistency when he was on the park, he did not play another Test until the tour of Australia in 2010-11.His recall in Perth marked the beginning of his most successful spell as an international bowler as he collected 17 wickets in three matches to help England win down under for the first time in 24 years. He followed that success with 15 wickets in three Tests against Sri Lanka, but would only play three more Tests over the subsequent three years – one apiece against India, Sri Lanka and his final appearance against Australia, at Brisbane, in late 2013.”I have been extremely fortunate to have enjoyed such a fantastic and memorable career and lucky enough to play with and against some of the best players in the world,” he said. “Wearing the three lions was the pinnacle and I enjoyed every minute of the challenge, experience and ultimately the success that the team had whilst playing for England.”His ODI debut had come two years before his Test bow and he claimed four wickets in his first appearance against Bangladesh in 2005. However, another 14 matches spread over seven years brought just 11 further scalps.Across a 146-match first-class career Tremlett claimed 459 wickets at 28.66 with a career-best of 8 for 96. He also took 180 List A wickets and 75 in T20.

Mohammad Amir, Misbah-ul-Haq, Younis Khan and Mohammad Hafeez are among 52 Pakistan players in the BPL foreigners list. Forty-eight England players have also made it to the list, such as Samit Patel, Paul Collingwood and Ravi Bopara. The list includes 25 players from Sri Lanka, 33 from West Indies, five from Zimbabwe, four from Australia, four from South Africa, two from New Zealand, and 13 from Associate Nations.This season, a franchise will be able to recruit a player, local and foreign, in two ways. As per the first method, a player who is enlisted in the roster provided by the BPL will be a draft pick on October 31, to subsequently be chosen in turn by the six franchises. Such players will be paid by the BCB.As per the second method, players can be directly contracted by the franchises, in which case the payment will not be guaranteed by the BCB, and the player has to take his fees from the franchise. If a player chooses to be directly in contract with a franchise, he will be taken out of the BPL-provided list.The BPL organisers are confident that this two-way player recruitment system will make this year’s competition more robust than the previous two editions. Ismail Haider Mallick, the tournament secretary, said that franchises were signing big-name players directly, while more than 180 players were included in the foreign list.”The response is better than the last two tournaments,” Mallick told ESPNcricinfo. “I have heard that many big players have signed up with the franchises while we also have a pretty strong list of players which we will make available to the franchises. We have appointed a company to help us out. Except for those players who are busy at the time, we have a lot of players available for this season’s BPL.”Each franchise can register seven foreigners in total, and use a maximum of four such players in a match. The highest price bracket for the foreign cricketers is USD $70,000 while the lowest is USD $30,000. Player payment issues dogged the first two editions of Bangladesh’s domestic T20 competition, with the 2014 season being completely scrapped.

ScorecardMarcus Harris top scored with 84 for the Cricket Australia XI•Getty Images

After two of the heaviest defeats imaginable, the Cricket Australia XI broke through for an unexpected maiden victory in their third match of the Matador Cup campaign, against Tasmania at Bankstown Oval. Marcus Harris and William Bosisto both scored half-centuries before Matt Dixon and Jack Wildermuth each claimed three wickets as Tasmania fell four runs short of their target of 242.The youth team was added to this year’s tournament in an effort to provide exposure for fringe players but after being bowled out for 59 by New South Wales and 79 by Victoria, the value of the CA XI’s inclusion was unclear. However, in their third outing the batting clicked; Harris and Jimmy Peirson put on 70 for the opening wicket before Harris and Bosisto added a further 95.Tasmania’s attack boasted three men with international experience, plus the recent Test call-up Andrew Fekete, but they were unable to run through the CA XI in the way New South Wales and Victoria both had earlier this week. Harris, the young opener from Western Australia, was the most experienced man in the CA XI line-up and he took on the responsibility of ensuring a competitive total was reached.He finished with 84 from 94 balls when he was lbw to James Faulkner, and Bosisto had 64 from 91 when he was bowled by Jackson Bird. The Victorian allrounder Matt Short struck some valuable late runs – 41 from 32 deliveries – and when the CA XI reached 7 for 241 from their 50 overs, Tasmania were still the favourites but at least a game had been made of it.The loss of Ben Dunk for 1 in the second over of the chase made things interesting, and although Tim Paine (56) and George Bailey (51) steadied with an 83-run stand for the third wicket, the youth side refused to give up. Legspinner Mitch Swepson bowled Paine and Wildermuth trapped Bailey lbw, and when Dixon had Faulkner, renowned for his finishing ability, lbw for 17 it was game on.Evan Gulbis appeared the key man and when he was bowled by Dixon for 33 in the penultimate over, an upset was on the cards. With only one wicket in hand Tasmania needed 16 off the final over, bowled by Wildermuth, and the Nos. 10 and 11, Fekete and Bird, managed only 12.