{"id":105055,"date":"2025-10-06T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/105055\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:19:09","slug":"the-unlikely-player-proving-key-to-ruben-amorims-plans-and-exposing-yet-more-flaws-in-manchester-uniteds-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/105055\/","title":{"rendered":"The unlikely player proving key to Ruben Amorim\u2019s plans \u2013 and exposing yet more flaws in Manchester United\u2019s recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mason Mount celebrates scoring Manchester United's first goal against Sunderland. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8cc95f38-e77d-41cf-b851-b2ad801463fc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Mason Mount celebrates scoring Manchester United&#8217;s first goal against Sunderland. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cI love that kid,\u201d said Ruben Amorim, early in his reign at Manchester United. There are no prizes for guessing it wasn\u2019t an ode to Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho or Antony. Or, indeed, to Andre Onana, Kobbie Mainoo or Rasmus Hojlund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But Amorim may be in good company. Thomas Tuchel loved Mason Mount, Frank Lampard too. Gareth Southgate liked him. Erik ten Hag loved him enough to spend an initial \u00a355m on him. Amorim loves him, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mason Mount celebrates scoring Manchester United&#8217;s first goal against Sunderland. Photo: PA \u201cI love that kid,\u201d said Ruben&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,20,795,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-105055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-premier-league","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}