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Former Manchester United defender Phil Jones has backed the highly-rated Chido Obi to have a stellar profession at Previous Trafford.
Broadly thought of to be top-of-the-line abilities in his age group, Chido Obi ditched Arsenal in the summertime to seal a swap to United.
He has been prolific at youth degree, plundering 12 targets in as many appearances up to now. The Dane made his senior debut for the membership on Sunday, approaching in added time because the Crimson Devils suffered a 1-0 defeat by the hands of Tottenham Hotspur.
In his post-match presser, Ruben Amorim branded Chido Obi “intelligent” as he opened up on his choice to afford him some minutes from the bench.
Jones, who has been working with the United academy since retiring final yr, is well-acquainted with Chido Obi and definitely well-positioned to supply an knowledgeable evaluation of the younger expertise.
Talking on the Footy Accumulators No Tippy Tappy Soccer podcast, Jones additionally weighed in on United’s present woes, labelling the state of affairs as “unhappy.”
The previous England worldwide remarked, “Man United are in a extremely troublesome second, I feel it’s been a development of the final 4 or 5 years to get to the place we’re.”
“It’s unhappy to see. It’s troublesome to see the place we are able to enhance it, the place it may well get higher. It’s actually troublesome to speak about as a result of I’m so keen on the membership, I really like the membership, I really like the folks there, love the gamers, it’s actually unhappy to see on the minute.”
“I feel what I might say is working in and across the academy for the final two years, serving to and watching these younger gamers develop, United have some actually good and proficient younger gamers coming by means of.”
“The squad had plenty of accidents in opposition to Tottenham and the bench was full of youngsters, however there have been some proficient gamers on that bench. Individuals may not know loads about them now however they definitely will within the subsequent few years.”
Jones added, “I feel you take a look at Kobbie Mainoo, high participant, you take a look at Chido who we’ve simply signed from Arsenal, who’s an animal, I feel he’s simply turned 17, pay attention, he’s going to have an incredible profession, albeit with the suitable mentality however I feel he does.”
“You take a look at Amad who had a few actually good loans, and I keep in mind watching him profitable it in opposition to Liverpool in further time final season, and I had mentioned at the moment he’d play an enormous half within the subsequent season.”
“I performed with Amad for a yr or two and you can see then that the standard he had with manipulating the ball, committing gamers, one-vs-one conditions, he was actually good, actually robust and child as nicely.”
“I feel they’ve acquired crop of younger gamers who’re able to step in be built-in into the primary staff if and when known as upon.”
United are again in motion on Saturday once they face Everton at Goodison Park. Kick-off is at 12:30 GMT.
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