PAUL SCHOLES has told Kobbie Mainoo to leave Manchester United and make an “embarrassing” move to Chelsea.
The Red Devils lost Alejandro Garnacho to the Blues in the summer and Mainoo is also facing an uncertain future.
Manager Ruben Amorim has often opted to pick Casemiro ahead of the impressive youngster in his midfield.
Mainoo, 20, has been limited to just 10 Premier League appearances this season – all of which were from the bench.
His lack of action has also cost him his spot in Thomas Tuchel‘s England set-up, with Adam Wharton and Elliot Anderson preferred by the German.
Scholes, 51, believes that a move away from Old Trafford would be the best thing for Mainoo’s career.
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The United legend even insisted that if Chelsea made contact with the midfielder, then he should make the switch to West London.
Scholes made the claim while speaking with Nicky Butt on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast.
He said: “You would have to advise him to go. If he rang me and said, ‘I think Chelsea are in for me what do you think?’, I’d say ‘all day long’.
“He is a 20-year-old kid, he is going to have to leave.
“What will happen know is he’ll bring him into a game and he won’t be great, because he needs five, six, seven, eight games.
“He’ll throw him into the team and say ‘I told you so’.
“No-one [in the hierarchy] gets the club. You think of the treatment of Kobbie Mainoo.
“He’s not playing, fair enough, sometimes as a manager you don’t fancy a player.
“When they aren’t playing well and what he has done in the game already as a young kid, winning goal in the FA Cup final, he’s played nearly every game at the Euros.
“I bet he takes the p*** out of Casemiro every day in training.”
Scholes also shared his thoughts on Amorim’s position at the United manager.
The 66-time England star does not think that the Portuguese coach is the right fit for the Red Devils.
He added: “‘I don’t think the manager gets this club, full stop. I just don’t think he’s the right man.
“Man United is about risk and entertainment more than anything, at home having fans on their seat f***ing ready to go, wingers who beat people, shots on goal. There is nothing there.
“That’s from the club, we talk about how it is a different club.
“They’ve got Omar Berrada, Jason Wilcox, who are probably brilliant at what they do, but they are not Man United, they don’t have a clue what it is like to buy a Man United player and bring a Man United manager in.
“If you go to Sporting Lisbon and watch, they play three at the back, right away that is a no as Man United never do that.
“You can’t do that, it has been proven over years and years. I am talking even before Sir Alex Ferguson.
“It was always about 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2 and entertaining people.
“He has not got that in him. That’s why I’m saying Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada, they have probably gone out and watched Sporting Lisbon.
“How can they think that is a Man United manager?
“He brought four defenders on against West Ham. If we go 1-0 up, the manager always said 2, 3, 4. He just doesn’t get it, I don’t think anyone at the club gets Man United.
“You know when you see a Premier League team now, you can see what they are trying to do. I don’t know what Man United are trying to do, it is a mess.
“I don’t see the patterns of play where they are going to open a team up.”
Scholes’ comments about Amorim, comes just days after the manager defended his treatment of Mainoo.
The midfielder has attracted plenty of interest with as many as 12 clubs circling for his signature.
The former Sporting boss insisted that he would not be made to play an unhappy player if they are not deserving of a spot.
He said: “My job is to answer, but I am trying to answer always the same thing – and you ask me always the same thing.
“I understand what you are saying. You love Kobbie.
“He starts for England, but that doesn’t mean I need to put (in) Kobbie when I feel I shouldn’t put (in) Kobbie.
“I don’t know what is going to happen. It depends. If I see in training it is the best thing, I will put it.
“That is the only way I know how to respond to that.”
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