Man Utd news: Ruben Amorim sent Benjamin Sesko warning as signing labelled ‘wet blanket’

Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim has some big selection decisions to make with the Manchester Derby on the horizon on Sunday following the international break

Manchester United are nearing their biggest game of the season so far, with a trip across Manchester to the Etihad Stadium just days away.

After welcoming their players back from international duty, United face Manchester City on Sunday afternoon. The game will have a fresh feeling for both sides, who could start new goalkeepers in the form of Senne Lammens and Gianluigi Donnarumma.

United signed Lammens on transfer deadline day and are sending Andre Onana out on loan to Trabzonspor as Ruben Amorim tinkers with his goalkeepers. He has decisions to make all across the pitch, with the new-look attack of Benjamin Sesko, Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha yet to click into gear, and midfield issues persisting.

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Amorim gets Sesko warning

Benjamin Sesko will need time and patience at Manchester United, or the club risk turning him into another Rasmus Hojlund, says Nicky Butt. “I think he’s going to need time. I think that’s why Hojiund…I think he got let down a little bit when he came in. He was a young player coming in; it’s like history repeating itself, really, but he had no one around him to help him out,” Butt told Mirror Football via BetMGM.

“I just hope they’re not making the same mistake with this player, because he’s only young, had no experience in the Premier League, and I think that’s where I would have liked maybe Ollie Watkins or someone coming in to Man United, who’s been there, seen it, knows the league, can help a young player.

“So I hope they don’t expect him to come straight into the football club and go and hit the ground running and scoring goals. Certainly, obviously, everyone wants him to do that, but it’s a really tough ask to go into that football club and have a young player who has no experience to go in.”

Onana flies to Turkey

Andre Onana flew from Paris to Trabzon in Turkey yesterday to complete his season-long loan deal with Trabzsonspor. The Cameroon international joined United two seasons ago and has been the No.1 goalkeeper ever since, but has been ousted this summer.

After Altay Bayindir started the opening three Premier League games, United paid £18.2m to sign Senne Lammens from Royal Antwerp on deadline day. The 23-year-old Belgian could make his debut in the derby on Sunday, while Onana has departed to play football elsewhere.

It is some turnaround for Onana, who arrived for £47m from Inter Milan, having helped them reach the Champions League final, but has seen his reputation destroyed at Old Trafford.

Ugarte labelled ‘wet blanket’

It’s fair to say that Manuel Ugarte has not proven to be the transformational signing United fans hoped. The ex-Paris Saint-Germain midfielder joined the club a year ago in a deal potentially worth £50.5million, but he’s yet to make his mark in a position the club desperately need filling.

Casemiro is still preferred in holding midfield, while Kobbie Mainoo and Ugarte have to be happy with a place on the bench under Amorim’s management. Ugarte is an experienced Uruguay international, but former Scotland player Craig Burley is bemused by him.

Laying into the player on ESPN, he said: “Manuel Ugarte is just absolutely nothing. He’s just like a wet blanket. Put him in with the kids and even the kids would be going, ‘Who the hell is this guy?’ Seriously.”

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