Ruben Amorim responds to Manchester United fans calling for Chido Obi-Martin debut
Chido Obi-Martin has hit the ground running after leaving Arsenal to join Manchester United (Getty) Ruben Amorim has suggested that Chido Obi-Martin is not close to making his first-team debut for Manchester United. Obi-Martin is regarded as one of the best young striker prospects in Europe and left Arsenal’s academy to join United last October. In his final season at Arsenal, Obi-Martin scored 32 goals in 18 matches for the Under-18s, including 10 in one game against Liverpool. Since moving to United, the 17-year-old has scored nine goals in 10 appearances for the youth team. With both Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee struggling to find the net, United supporters have called on Amorim to hand Obi-Martin his first-team debut for their FA Cup fourth-round tie against Leicester City on Friday night. Chido Obi-Martin scored 32 goals in 18 games for Arsenal’s Under-18s (Getty) Ahead of the game, Ruud van Nistelrooy has already confirmed that academy wingers Jeremy Monga, 15, and Jake Evans, 16, will be on Leicester’s substitutes’ bench at Old Trafford. But when asked about the prospect of giving Obi-Martin minutes in the first team, Amorim said: ‘He’s doing his job, he’s improving, he’s playing in the youth teams, and we have also other players that can play in that position. ‘Rasmus [Hojlund] and Josh [Zirkzee] are there, we bought these two players, so we need to improve them and then sometimes the confidence can change a player. ‘We will see in the end of the season, but, until then, we have two strikers that can score goals. ‘They proved it in the past. Let’s see if we can improve as a team, to help them to score goals.’
Ruben Amorim has suggested that Chido Obi-Martin is not close to making his first-team debut for Manchester United.
Obi-Martin is regarded as one of the best young striker prospects in Europe and left Arsenal’s academy to join United last October.
In his final season at Arsenal, Obi-Martin scored 32 goals in 18 matches for the Under-18s, including 10 in one game against Liverpool.
Since moving to United, the 17-year-old has scored nine goals in 10 appearances for the youth team.
With both Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee struggling to find the net, United supporters have called on Amorim to hand Obi-Martin his first-team debut for their FA Cup fourth-round tie against Leicester City on Friday night.
Ahead of the game, Ruud van Nistelrooy has already confirmed that academy wingers Jeremy Monga, 15, and Jake Evans, 16, will be on Leicester’s substitutes’ bench at Old Trafford.
But when asked about the prospect of giving Obi-Martin minutes in the first team, Amorim said: ‘He’s doing his job, he’s improving, he’s playing in the youth teams, and we have also other players that can play in that position.
‘Rasmus [Hojlund] and Josh [Zirkzee] are there, we bought these two players, so we need to improve them and then sometimes the confidence can change a player.
‘We will see in the end of the season, but, until then, we have two strikers that can score goals.
‘They proved it in the past. Let’s see if we can improve as a team, to help them to score goals.’
