Overview

• Manchester United’s head coach pledged not to end the club’s run of naming an academy player in every matchday squad, a sequence stretching back to October 1937.
• Sunday’s derby is set to be the 4,326th consecutive first-team game with a homegrown player named, according to local reporting.
• United confirmed a 21-man Premier League list that excludes Kobbie Mainoo from the main group, with the 20-year-old registered on the U21 list and fully eligible to play.
• Rhys Bennett was moved from the U21 section to the primary squad list as he approaches 22, reflecting age rules on registration.
• Amorim publicly detailed Mainoo’s development needs—greater pace, positional understanding and variable tempo—while noting the 3-4-3 shape and Bruno Fernandes’s first-choice status limit his minutes.