The final straw? Ruben Amorim ‘unhappy’ after Andre Onana video went viral | Football

Ruben Amorim was reportedly left unimpressed as Andre Onana picked up an injury this summer, just days after a video surfaced showing the goalkeeper taking part in a local match in Cameroon.

Manchester United are expected to officially announce Onana’s departure in the coming hours, with the 29-year-old set to join Trabzonspor on a season-long loan move.

While the Premier League’s transfer deadline came and went on Monday, the Turkish window remains open until Friday, allowing Trabzonspor an opportunity to secure a deal for Onana.

Onana will no doubt be desperate to rebuild his damaged reputation in Turkey having fallen well below expectations at United following a £47million move from Inter Milan in 2023.

The Red Devils had initially been open to the prospect of keeping hold of Onana, but the deadline-day arrival of Senne Lammens convinced Old Trafford bosses that he should be allowed to leave.

Remarkably, Onana is set to almost double his wages when he signs for the Super Lig outfit due to various bonuses.

According to Mail Online, Amorim was ‘unhappy’ when Onana went down with a hamstring tear in pre-season, with footage emerging of the Cameroon international having a kickabout on a makeshift pitch in his homeland just days earlier.

Clips of the match, which showed Onana getting stuck in and flying into duels on an uneven, muddy surface, quickly spread across social media, drawing a mixed reaction from United fans.

The hamstring injury meant Onana was unavailable for United’s opening match of the campaign against Arsenal and Altay Bayindir has managed to cling onto the gloves ever since.

The report claims Amorim was ‘wary’ of Onana’s situation becoming something of a ‘distraction’ for new signing Lammens and the decision was made with director of football Jason Wilcox to move the ‘keeper on.

Minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe was also in agreement with Amorim and Wilcox having made his feelings abundantly clear on Onana during an explosive interview with the BBC in March.

‘If you look at the players we are buying this summer, that we didn’t buy, we’re buying Antony, we’re buying Casemiro, we’re buying Onana, we’re buying [Rasmus] Hojlund, we’re buying [Jadon] Sancho,’ Ratcliffe said at the time.

‘These are all things from the past, whether we like it or not, we’ve inherited those things and have to sort that out.

‘For Sancho, who now plays for Chelsea and we pay half his wages, we’re paying £17m to buy him in the summer.’

Casemiro will be the only surviving player of those mentioned by Ratcliffe once Onana departs, with the club going through a period of major upheaval on the back of their worst-ever season in the Premier League.

Speaking on his YouTube channel earlier this week, Rio Ferdinand said he was ‘pleased’ the likes of Onana, Antony and Sancho had been shown the door.

‘I think [Omar [Berrada], who is running the football operations at the club, I think he’s made the point that they’re not going to have players sitting around that are not worthy of being at the football club anymore,’ the legendary ex-United and England centre-back said.

‘They’re not going to have players that either aren’t good enough, haven’t performed well enough or are not the right people to be at the football club.

‘He’s not going to have them around like bad smells. I think, for far too long, we’ve had at that at the football club.

‘We’ve been forced to keep players because of bad financial situations that the club have put us in with players and we’ve had to keep them here, sit with them and had to suffer some of these players.’

Ferdinand added: ‘I think this is a step in the right direction,’ former United and England centre-back Ferdinand added.

‘As happy as I am with the players that are coming in and providing a difference in terms of speed, dynamism, pace and goal threat, I’m as pleased, if not more, with the way they’ve got players out that the club deemed weren’t right to be there.

‘That side of it has been as important, if not more, than the incoming players because I think it sends out a fantastic message and a strong message to the players that are there: you ain’t hanging about here if you ain’t what we want.

‘That’s what it should be like at every club. If you’re not right for the football club, you’ve got to get out.

‘That’s why I’m so strong on it when a player wants to go, he should be able to force and go… I think it should work both ways.’

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