Manchester United

Simon Stone
Manchester United reporter

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It was totally in keeping with the way this season has started for United that some good news was almost immediately followed by a hefty dollop of bad.

There were only three minutes between Casemiro's header hitting Josh Cullen as it came off the crossbar and Matheus Cunha facing an extended period on the sidelines.

Chasing a long ball downfield, the £62.5m summer signing from Wolves pulled up holding his hamstring. He immediately signalled he had to come off and after the briefest of checks, headed straight to the dressing rooms.

Watching on from his technical area, Ruben Amorim had to stop himself from sending a nearby bottle of water careering down the touchline in frustration.

It is two weeks before United play again but their next opponents are Manchester City and Chelsea, with Liverpool not that long after that.

The injury could also have consequences for Kobbie Mainoo's desire to leave on loan.

Amorim had been pretty firm in his view Mainoo should stay. Given he ended up introducing him at half-time to allow skipper Bruno Fernandes to play further forward, that resolve is unlikely to have been weakened.

That is not the only issue facing Amorim, though.

Talks with Royal Antwerp over their goalkeeper Senne Lammens are at an advanced stage, and on the evidence of the past week a signing in that department is essential.

On Wednesday, Andre Onana gifted League Two Grimsby a goal in their momentous EFL Cup triumph over Amorim's side at Blundell Park.

Today it was Altay Bayindir's turn as he tried - and failed - to catch Loum Tchaouna's shot midway through the second half.

In his desperate bid to catch the ball, the Turkey international only succeeded in sending it on to Jaidon Anthony, whose shot struck Mainoo and then Bayindir again before ending up in the net.

It looked as though it would be so costly for Amorim and his team - just because it wasn't doesn't mean it can be ignored.

If there are positives, clearly one comes through the result. The other is the performance of Bryan Mbeumo, who has settled in brilliantly after his £65m move from Brentford and had the distinction of becoming the first player from Amorim's squad to score in the Premier League as he swept home Diogo Dalot's cross.

Ruben Amorim spoke to BBC Match of the Day after Manchester United's victory against Burnley: "I was frustrated like any United fan, we had chances to score more goals, create more chances. Today, the football was fair - we were the better team.

"Some moments are really decisive. Sometimes we were not playing so well, but you can see the effort of everyone on the pitch wanting to win.

On whether he will speak to the board about signings in the next couple of days: "I am always speaking with them to try and improve the team.

On his statements in the media recently: "I am really emotional, and in the last few months you can see why. I am like that, and you like that."

Goalscorer Bryan Mbeumo added: "Every game is hard and important. We had the game with us in the first half, but we had to fight every minute.

"I'm very happy, and we win as well - as a striker, it is important to be confident with goals."

On getting the win for Amorim: "We are all a team, it is not only one person. We all worked very hard for the win today."

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Manchester United became the first side ever to see both of their first two goals of a Premier League season be own goals. Indeed, they have benefitted from as many own goals in the Premier League this season (2) as they did in 2023-24 (0) and 2024-25 (2) combined.

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Ruben Amorim makes one change from the team that drew at Fulham last weekend, with Diogo Dalot slotting in at left wing-back in place of Patrick Dorgu.

New signing Benjamin Sesko is back on the bench after playing the full 90 minutes in Wednesday's EFL Cup shock at Grimsby.

Noussair Mazraoui make the matchday squad for the first time this season after recovering from the injury he had at the start of pre-season.

Manchester United XI: Bayindir, Yoro, De Ligt, Shaw, Diallo, Casemiro, Bruno Fernandes, Dalot, Mbeumo, Mount, Cunha.

Subs: Onana, Mazraoui, Maguire, Zirkzee, Dorgu, Ugarte, Heaven, Sesko, Mainoo.

Scott Parker sticks with the same starting line-up that beat Sunderland last weekend.

That means a return to Old Trafford for Hannibal Mejbri, who made 13 first-team appearances for the Red Devils before moving to Burnley last summer.

Veteran defender Kyle Walker is likely to receive a frosty reception given his Manchester City links.

Burnley XI: Dubravka, Walker, Ekdal, Esteve, Hartman, Ugochukwu, Cullen, Bruun Larsen, Mejbri, Anthony, Foster.

Subs: Weiss, Worrall, Edwards, Tchaouna, Flemming, Ramsey, Sonne, Pires, Laurent.

Simon Stone
Manchester United reporter

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Manchester United youngster Ethan Ennis has enjoyed an excellent start to the season.

The 20-year-old scored in a pre-season game at Rochdale and was on target in both United's Premier League 2 victories so far this season.

After a spell on loan at Doncaster last season, the plan has been for Ennis to go out again this season.

Along with many youngsters, Ennis is still to decide his future but Plymouth, managed by former United midfielder Tom Cleverley, and Fleetwood are two of the leading candidates to sign the Runcorn-born youngster at this stage.

There are six games in the Premier League on Saturday and BBC Sport will bring you every moment.

• Chelsea v Fulham (12:30) - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

• Man Utd v Burnley

• Sunderland v Brentford

• Tottenham v Bournemouth - listen on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

• Wolves v Everton

• Leeds v Newcastle (17:30) - listen on BBC Radio 5 Live

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I haven't got a clue with this one, nothing would surprise me. I don't think there'll be a lot of goals in this game, but surely Manchester United need to bounce back with some kind of statement?

It's a bad week for United. They were played off the park by Grimsby in the first half and were ultimately humiliated. I know Ruben Amorim made eight changes but he threw the big guns on in the end and you don't know what sort of impact that loss will have across the club.

After Grimsby, I think Amorim is under huge pressure.

Burnley will be stubborn and resolute, and they do carry an attacking threat. Will Manchester United find a way? Something's telling me to pick United to win but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Burnley embarrassed them.

Sutton's prediction: 1-0

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Tom McCoy
BBC Sport journalist

Manchester United go in search of their first win of the season, taking on a Burnley side buoyed by last weekend's victory over Sunderland. BBC Sport takes a look at some of the key themes before Saturday's game.

United's EFL Cup exit to Grimsby, their first defeat against fourth-tier opposition in the competition, has increased the pressure on head coach Ruben Amorim, who has won just five league games this calendar year – three of them against teams now in the Championship.

United spent over £190m on attacking talent this summer, recruiting Benjamin Sesko, Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo, but obvious flaws have yet to be addressed. Fitting the trio into Amorim's 3-4-2-1 formation means captain Bruno Fernandes has to be shoe-horned into a two-man midfield, a ploy that has rarely provided the right balance to United.

Goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, meanwhile, struggled to deal with set-pieces in the Reds' opening two league games of the season. But last season's number one, Andre Onana, hardly pressed his claims for a recall at Blundell Park, gifting Grimsby a goal when he failed to claim a routine cross.

Amorim admitted on Wednesday "something has to change" and improvement is clearly overdue. His Premier League win percentage of 24.7% is the worst in the club's history, with no other permanent United manager having dropped below 50% in the competition.

Will Clarets deepen gloom at Old Trafford?

Burnley got their first win on the board last weekend courtesy of victory over fellow new boys Sunderland, meaning Scott Parker's side are vying to win consecutive top-flight matches for the first time since April 2022.

The Clarets have won just once away to United in the league since 1962 although they have only lost four of nine Premier League fixtures at Old Trafford, making them one of three visiting clubs – along with Chelsea and Manchester City – to have avoided defeat in over half of their games there.

They can now also call upon a player with plenty of winning experience at the Theatre of Dreams. Summer signing Kyle Walker has played in six Premier League victories at the stadium, a joint record for an away player.

Simon Stone
Manchester United reporter

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There was a flurry of news around Manchester United's interest in Royal Antwerp goalkeeper Sanne Lammens last week. This week it has gone a bit quiet.

That doesn't mean nothing is happening, though.

Galatasaray are still interested in Lammens and United have not abandoned interest in the 23-year-old - but, as with many transfers, it needs something to shift the situation along.

Lammens is not training at the moment and will not be involved in the league game at Westerlo on Saturday.

I wouldn't like to commit at the moment to where Lammens will end up, but I doubt he will be a Royal Antwerp player into October (the Turkish transfer deadline is 12 September so Galatasaray have a bit of extra time if needed).

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National League side Solihull Moors have signed teenage Manchester United defender Louis Jackson on a season-long loan.

The Scotland Under-19 centre-back has played twice for the Premier League club's under-21s side but is yet to break into the first team at Old Trafford despite being in several matchday squads.

Jackson, 19, has been with United since he was 10 and won the FA Youth Cup in 2022.

"Louis is a fantastic young talent with real pedigree, and we're thrilled to have him here at Solihull Moors," boss Matt Taylor said., external

Simon Stone
Manchester United reporter

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After confirmation, Manchester United had accepted a £40m offer from Chelsea for their wantaway winger Alejandro Garnacho. The future of other exiled players with the Old Trafford club continues to be debated.

United are continuing to talk with Napoli over a loan deal for striker Rasmus Hojlund.

In addition, Spanish club Elche have made contact over taking another member of Ruben Amorim's 'bomb squad', Tyrell Malacia, to La Liga before the transfer window closes on Monday.

Meanwhile, Serie A outfit Roma continue to try to secure the signing of Jadon Sancho, although coach Gian Piero Gasperini has said there is a limit to what his club will do and Sancho should look favourably on a chance to restart his career.

"He would be a huge boost for us, but we would be an enormous opportunity for him. I'm not sure if it can still happen, but we don't have to pray for someone to come here."

Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Burnley at Old Trafford (kick-off 15:00 BST).

Here are the key lines from his news conference:

• Amorim admits doubting his ability to do the job: "Sometimes I want to quit, sometimes I want to be here for 20 years."

• He blames his emotions for the comments he made after the Grimsby game, admitting "sometimes I hate my players, sometimes I love my players".

• The manager says he will not change his approach: "You have a lot of experienced people talking about the way I should perform with the media, to be more constant, to be more calm. I'm not going to be like that."

• Pressed further on this, Amorim added: "I'm going to be who I am. That's why I have the passion that I have. In that moment [after Grimsby] I was really upset and really disappointed because I felt that we had a very good pre-season, we were playing better, we were being consistent in the way we played."

• On whether he felt like quitting after the Grimsby game: "I felt that after the game. I don't feel that now. So it's a little bit like that. I think that is the hardest part of the defeat. Sometimes it's not the result, it's the way we lost that game or draw that game. That is the thing that is hard to accept."

• Amorim would not comment on Alejandro Garnacho's future but says he wants Kobbie Mainoo to stay and fight for his place: "I understand that the players that are not playing in this moment are disappointed. But everyone will have the same opportunity to play. You have to fight during the week."

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Alex Turk
Fan writer

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There is a very real possibility that Ruben Amorim resigns as Manchester United head coach during the international break.

That is what I took away from his damning post-match comments after another of the worst defeats in the club's history at Grimsby Town.

He has overseen two of them in the space of four months, and many a supporter had already given up on him after United lost a final to Tottenham Hotspur in May.

A positive pre-season, which Amorim insisted he needed, raised the mood ahead of the new campaign, as did a £208m attacking overhaul.

But three games in, it feels like breaking point. For the first time since his exciting, yet ill-fated, arrival from Portugal, there is a sense that his supporters are now the minority.

Amorim desperately needs results, yet he is still failing to prove he can win football matches in England.

United's players "spoke loudly" in the Carabao Cup shock at Blundell Park, according to their manager. My translation: "They threw me under the bus and want something new."

He reportedly very nearly quit just months into the job last season. He then offered his resignation, without compensation, after the Europa League final disaster.

This time, it could be real. Amorim likely retains the support of Ineos, who have already sacked one manager since February 2024. But it's increasingly becoming a different story among the support.

Reports that he is ready to offload fan favourite academy product Kobbie Mainoo have not helped his cause at all.

The only way Amorim turns this around is through results - and I'm not sure they will ever arrive unless he changes his philosophy, something he has previously insisted he will live and die by.

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Simon Stone
Manchester United reporter

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It was in Chicago that Ruben Amorim first said Kobbie Mainoo would be in competition with Bruno Fernandes this season.

Although he was also keen to stress both men could play in different positions, Amorim clearly feels the pair are best suited to the advanced midfield role in his system, which for Mainoo is a clear problem.

How realistic is it that he can oust the captain from the United side, at least in the short-term?

In truth, Mainoo is a victim of his own success.

The Stockport-born player emerged so quickly and came into a team struggling so often, he was almost a totem. Yet the fabulous end to the 2023-24 campaign masked positional deficiencies in Mainoo's game that were apparent as United's midfield was routinely overrun. At the Euros, he had Declan Rice covering him.

As last season began, Mainoo's confidence and form dipped, and he was injured when Erik ten Hag was sacked and Amorim took his place.

Mainoo was prominent in Amorim's starting line-ups from December onwards, but that meant he was involved in a string of damaging defeats. He was injured again in February and, by the time he returned, Amorim was targeting the Europa League - meaning his only starts to the end of the season were in the Premier League. Three of those games were lost, the other, at Bournemouth, was a draw.

It was against that backdrop Amorim made his summer call on Mainoo.

He feels the competition for places will help his side and that the midfielder, who he says boasts quick feet, an excellent passing range and invaluable speed in tight spaces, will benefit.

Evidently, Mainoo feels the evidence of the opening two Premier League games only points to extended spells on the sidelines, frustration and stunted progress.

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Manchester United record goalscorer Wayne Rooney says Ruben Amorim's comments after Tuesday's Carabao Cup exit at the hands of Grimsby shows there is "something broken" in the dressing room.

"There's something not right," he said on The Wayne Rooney Show. "That's clear. The manager said so after the game.

"It can happen. We lost to Crawley years back in the cup. But, the difference is, everyone looking at that game knows it's a one-off.

"The issue now is we're seeing very similar performances, similar results and even though it's only three games into the season, it's getting to a point now where you're like: 'What is going on?'"

After the shock exit at Blundell Park, Amorim said United's players "spoke really loudly".

"The biggest concern is the manager saying that - his words after the game were damning on the players," Rooney added.

"If your manager comes out with those words there's something broken.

"We forget he's 40. He's a young manager. Manchester United is so different to where he's been before.

"There's a pressure at Manchester United which he will never have felt before. When you're not winning games it can start to get to you, and it looks like it was a breaking point for him.

"There's just a little bit too much rotation going on and players getting a little bit lost. When they lose the ball there's massive gaps and spaces and it's a carry on from last season. If it carries on like that, then unfortunately I don't see how it moves forward."

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Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo has asked to leave Old Trafford on loan.

United have rejected the request, telling Mainoo they value him and want him to stay and fight for his place.

It remains to be seen whether there are further conversations about the issue before the transfer deadline on Monday.

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Chelsea have agreed a £40m fee to sign Manchester United forward Alejandro Garnacho.

The 21-year-old Argentina international was told to find a new club by head coach Ruben Amorim at the end of last season.

Sources from United say the initial Chelsea offer was £25m, but Garnacho's transfer - which includes a 10% sell-on clause - will now be the club's fourth largest ever sale after Cristiano Ronaldo, Romelu Lukaku and Angel di Maria.

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