Chelsea are reported to be leading the race sign Manchester United midfielder Kobbie Mainoo will not extend his contract at Old Trafford.
Mainoo, 19, signed a four-year deal in 2023, shortly before making his Premier League debut, and is said to be the lowest-paid player in the senior team on wages of £20,000-a-week.
despite unitedEager to tie him down to an extension and recognize the midfielder as a key first-team player, progress in negotiations over new terms has been slow and there is now growing concern over Mainoo’s long-term future at the United.
The Daily Mail been Chelsea have positioned themselves at the front of the queue to sign Mainoo, seeing the teenager as a star in the making.
It was previously claimed that Mainoo was part of a small group of players United considered “untouchable”, although David Ornstein of The Athletic He recently argued that this was not the case because of the sheer profit that could be made from selling an academy graduate like Mainoo.
“If there’s going to be an exit (for Marcus Rashford), a particular sale, maybe it’s more likely in the summer, but it would represent pure profit, something we hear so much about, because he was a graduate of the ‘academy’, Ornstein. he said “Just as Kobbie Mainoo could be, he is out of contract in 2027, with no news of a new deal.
“Alejandro Garnacho too, I don’t think anyone in this group is off the table. Who is, someone like Leny Yoro, like Amad Diallo, I think they are untouchable.”
Crucially, while Mainoo’s contract runs until 2027, United have the option to extend it by a further 12 months, leaving them with very little immediate pressure to make a decision on the forward’s future international english
