{"id":814,"date":"2026-04-25T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=814"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:17:54","slug":"casemiro-predicts-man-utd-star-will-be-the-best-for-the-next-12-years-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Casemiro predicts Man Utd star will be &#8216;the best for the next 12 years&#8217; | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"646\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Casemiro-8e81.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-27804309\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"sync\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Casemiro says Kobbie Mainoo \u2018is the present and the future\u2019 (MUTV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Casemiro believes Kobbie Mainoo can remain one of the best midfielders in the world for the next 12 years for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Mainoo has once again established himself as a key figure in United\u2019s midfield following Michael Carrick\u2019s arrival in January, delivering impressive performances in wins against Manchester City, Tottenham and Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>Casemiro, meanwhile, is set to leave United at the end of the season but the 34-year-old is facing calls to extend his stay at Old Trafford due to the flourishing midfield partnership he has with Mainoo.<\/p>\n<p>But while Casemiro insists he will not change his mind over his decision to leave Old Trafford this summer, the Brazil international believes United will still have \u2018one of the best No.8s\u2019 in Mainoo.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kobbie is the present and the future,\u2019 Casemiro said in a Q&#038;A with United.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2238789488.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-26113794\" alt=\"Manchester United v Sunderland - Premier League\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Kobbie Mainoo has impressed since being handed a regular role at Manchester United under Michael Carrick (AMA\/Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018I think that he is one of the best No.8s and can be for that for the next 12 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He is a player I really like. He always wants the ball. It is true that football can\u2019t change your mentality but Kobbie demonstrated that he hasn\u2019t changed his focus once.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He has to continue focusing like he is now and continue playing the important role he is now. But what a player he is, he is a great player.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018He has demonstrated this, in the Euros final with England, he has demonstrated it in finals, he scored in the FA Cup (in the 2024 final win against Manchester City).<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Kobbie is the present and the future.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"\/><br \/>\n<strong>Facebook, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0Instagram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Chelsea told to re-sign \u2018phenomenal\u2019 Champions League star they should \u2018never have let go\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Man Utd urged to sign \u00a380m England star before the World Cup begins<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Liverpool urged to sack Arne Slot and replace him with \u2018perfect\u2019 former Chelsea manager<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"\/><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"\/><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casemiro says Kobbie Mainoo \u2018is the present and the future\u2019 (MUTV) Casemiro believes Kobbie Mainoo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}