Kobbie Mainoo can’t ‘control’ a game of football for England as Scholes’ bold Rodri claim debunked

Paul Scholes reckons Kobbie Mainoo can be England’s Rodri or Toni Kroos and we’re not having it. We love the Manchester United star, but he can’t “control” a football game.

We also subscribe to the idea that if you’re good enough, you’re old enough. Comparing Mainoo to players like Rodri and Kroos will always encourage scoffing given the ludicrous number of trophies the Spain and Germany midfielders have won between them, but the Manchester United teenager simply hasn’t had the opportunity. He could have six Champions League winners medals like Kroos by the time he retires after Euro 2040.

United averaged 1.67 points per game last season when Mainoo wasn’t playing as the deepest central midfielder, i.e. when either Casemiro or Sofyan Amrabat played alongside him, and just 1.1 points per game when he was. He’s at his best playing with – not being – the safety net. His role in the England team would be to play from deep, like Kroos or Rodri, with a view to setting Declan Rice free, as Mikel Arteta did at Arsenal in the second half of last season. But that’s not Mainoo’s game.

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