{"id":446812,"date":"2025-12-14T16:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/446812\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:38:12","slug":"kobbie-mainoo-to-link-up-with-marcus-rashford-barcelona-want-to-tempt-man-utd-outcast-to-camp-nou-but-face-real-madrid-chelsea-and-napoli-transfer-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/446812\/","title":{"rendered":"Kobbie Mainoo to link up with Marcus Rashford? Barcelona want to &#8216;tempt&#8217; Man Utd outcast to Camp Nou but face Real Madrid, Chelsea and Napoli transfer competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The report states that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/team\/barcelona\/agh9ifb2mw3ivjusgedj7c3fe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona<\/a> are looking to &#8216;tempt&#8217; Mainoo away from United as the Blaugrana consider bolstering their midfield options. That being said, the same report also claims that competition for the United outcast is rife, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/team\/real-madrid\/3kq9cckrnlogidldtdie2fkbl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a> sniffing around the youngster.<\/p>\n<p>After a flying start to the season under Xabi Alonso, Los Blancos are struggling and are now seven points behind league leaders Barcelona, albeit with a game in hand, following a run of one win in their last five. Even so, the Spanish giants are prepared to sanction a move for Mainoo to not only improve the squad, but to also strike a blow to their fierce rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid are not the only European heavyweight in for Mainoo with Serie A giants Napoli and Premier League outfit Chelsea also monitoring the United midfielder. A move to Napoli would see Mainoo tread the same path as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/player\/s-mctominay\/9fvo9v5e9r0ptibied6ejv3zd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scott McTominay<\/a>, who was rebuilt his career following his move to Italy last summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues, meanwhile, are renowned for hoovering up the best young talent on the continent and would jump at the chance to sign a player of Mainoo&#8217;s calibre and scope for improvement. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2025\/12\/14\/chelsea-lead-race-sign-kobbie-mainoo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separate report<\/a> states that Chelsea are leading the race for Mainoo, though the player&#8217;s preference is to move to Napoli.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking for smarter football bets? Get expert previews, data-driven predictions &amp; winning insights with <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+uMYfPakXmGQ5MjQ0\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOAL Tips on Telegram<\/strong><\/a><strong>. Join our growing community now!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report states that Barcelona are looking to &#8216;tempt&#8217; Mainoo away from United as the Blaugrana consider bolstering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":446813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1386,205586,154025,3782,10214,221,62,11223,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-446812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-j-zirkzee","10":"tag-k-mainoo","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-real-madrid","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ssc-napoli","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115718907709382183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}