EPL: Don’t keep them – Keane blasts three Man Utd players after Chelsea defeat

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9 months ago

May 17, 2025

Manchester United legend, Roy Keane has hit out at three players – Rasmus Hojlund, Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho – following the team’s Premier League 1-0 defeat to Chelsea on Friday.

Keane also insisted that Man United should not be fighting to keep the three players at the club this summer transfer window.

A second half goal from Marc Cucurella gave the Blues the win against Ruben Amorim’s side at Stamford Bridge.

“They have got no striker,” Keane told Sky Sports. “Hojlund looked like a young kid for Chelsea, he looked like he had come straight out of the academy.”

Asked if Hojlund, Mainoo and Garnacho were players Man United should fight to keep, Keane added: “No. No I wouldn’t. I would not be hanging my hat on them three to get United anywhere.

“Mainoo came on tonight and I watched him closely, he is strolling around, some of his passing was sloppy.

“Garnacho is immature, he plays in little moments but he doesn’t do enough.

“You want players to turn up week in and week out and he doesn’t do that.”

The result leaves Man United in 16th position on the Premier League table with 39 points from 37 games.

They will face Tottenham Hotspur in the Europa League final in their next game on Wednesday.

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2026 World Cup: Super Eagles waiting for FIFA’s decision – Iwobi

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5 hours ago

February 6, 2026

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Super Eagles playmaker, Alex Iwobi, has admitted they are waiting to see if the team would still play at the 2026 World Cup.

The Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, is optimistic of a potential lifeline from FIFA, after it submitted a petition against the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Iwobi was asked by SuperSport if he would rather lift the AFCON 2025 trophy or qualify for the World Cup?

The 29-year-old, who played at the 2018 of the World Cup, replied: “I mean we’re still waiting, well hopefully we can go to the World Cup, but I feel it’s a tough one.

“It’s a tough one because winning AFCON is like… It’s a great legacy, it’s a great thing to have like in your career, a memorable moment.

“But then at the same time, because I’ve been to the World Cup already, a lot of the players haven’t been. They would like to say ‘I want to go to the World Cup,’ so I can’t be selfish and say win the AFCON and for my teammates to not go to the World Cup. So it’s a tough one. I don’t know. I don’t know.”

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PRESIDENT TINUBU CONDOLES WITH SAMUEL CHUKWUEZE OF THE SUPER EAGLES ON THE PASSING OF HIS MOTHER

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1 week ago

January 30, 2026

Ekwutos Blog

President Bola Tinubu sends his condolences

to Super Eagles forward Samuel Chukwueze on the passing of his mother.

The President also extends his sympathies to the family and friends of Mrs Sarah Chukwueze, who passed away on Thursday.

President Tinubu mourns with the Chukwueze family and encourages them to find solace in the memory and legacy of their late matriarch.

“The passing of Mrs Chukwueze, the mother of one of our bright football stars, just a few days after the passing of Super Eagles’ captain Wilfred Ndidi’s father, is deeply saddening.

I mourn with them, and I am with them in prayers during this difficult time,” the President says.

President Tinubu prays that God Almighty will grant the departed eternal rest.

Bayo Onanuga
Special Adviser to the President
(Information and Strategy)