Ruben Amorim, manager of Manchester United, has downplayed expectations for Chido Obi-Martin's immediate first-team debut despite the 17-year-old's impressive goalscoring record for the youth side. While fans have urged Amorim to consider Obi-Martin for the FA Cup tie against Leicester City due to Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee's recent goal-scoring difficulties, Amorim emphasized the need to develop existing strikers and stated that a decision on Obi-Martin's future will likely be made at the end of the season.
Chido Obi-Martin has hit the ground running after leaving Arsenal to join Manchester United 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.
Chido Obi-Martin scored 32 goals in 18 games for Arsenal’s Under-18s 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.
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