It was 7.15 in Sunday morning on Sunday morning when Chido Obi stood in his Manchester United songs, added a black winter hat hat and went out to do additional training.
The 17 -year -old waives days off to work in his trade and in this cold morning of Manchester was working on his movement and finish with personal coach Kudus Oyenuga.
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Within a week of this winter weekend session, the couple remained a hat -rick of the FA Youth Cup against Chelsea, taking their account seven goals from three games in the Cup, two training sessions of the first team and a debut in the Premier League.
Much of the speech on Chido Obi, who recently made a personal request to club officials to leave 'Martin', his second name, of his name in all comments and media reports, has been about the attempt of the club of Moderate expectations.
Having arrived from Arsenal last year in a movement promoted by the head of Academia de United, Nick Cox and the head of recruit most exciting young players in the country.
Chido Obi is a Manchester United prospect that is receiving his first exposure to senior football
United needs a scorer a lot, and this 17 -year -old has achieved a lot at the youth level
He has caught Ruben Amorim's attention and was given his debut in Sunday's defeat against the Spurs.
After his hat-trick against Chelsea, the chief of less than 18 years, Adam Lawrence, decided not to talk to a group of reporters eager to interrogate him about OBI's potential. The player has also managed to avoid interviews with the Mutv internal channel.
The technical director Jason Wilcox has seen it widely, while Darren Fletcher, a key duct for Amorim between the academy and the first team, has been among those who defend their development.
His way in United Rankles with those in the Arsenal who felt that they had made a convincing launch for Obi to stay, only for him to inform them in July that after two years he wanted to go to new pastures.
The Arsenal made a lucrative contract offer and it is understood that the head of the first team, Mikel Arteta, intervened to try to map his vision for the player's future, which included training with the first team and play football under 21 years of age season where the schedule allowed. He showed in vain.
Depending on the side you ask, the issue of money acquires higher levels of importance. On the player's side, it is understood that money was not the determining factor to go to Manchester, but rather the feeling that he had a better opportunity to decipher the first team. There are numerous figures in the arsenal that would dispute it.
He has the opportunity to pay them next week, when United faces the Gunners in the quarterfinals of the FA Youth Cup, which will take place at Emirates Stadium. Obi has seven goals in three games so far in this year's competition.
Such a contract, and the national headlines of specific games such as when he won 10 goals in a 14-3 victory over Liverpool under 16 years for Arsenal in November 2023, the pressure on OBI increased to a United level that United Stain So It was unfair and unsustainable.
The first calls to accelerate him to the first team were ignored and found his way in Carrington with those under 18 at the beginning, in network, according to their standards, a 14-minute routine hat-trick in his debut against Nottingham Forest. He scored within 14 seconds of the beginning that day in Carrington to underline how dominant games.
The Arsenal made a lucrative offer to stay, and it is understood that the chief of the gunners Mikel Arteta has intervened
Obi scored, according to his standards, a 14-minute routine hat-trick in debut against Nottingham Forest
At the end of October they had given him his debut as children under 21 and was the only player who left the bank on Sunday.
At the end of October, his minor debut against PSV Eindhoven was given and now he is firmly in the mixture for minutes of the first team after becoming 252 of Manchester United of the Academy to the first team.
The sources around the first team talk about the humility of the player and the impression he has caused in Ruben Amorim and his staff in the last three weeks, the period of time in which he has really intensified to become a factor on the senior side .
What began as Obi helping to complete the numbers in the recovery sessions of the first team The day after the matches has now focused more, with the staff of the first team collecting many more data on it when analyzing it in complete sessions.
After his Hat -rick against Chelsea on Wednesday on Wednesday night at the FA Youth Cup, in which he took out the iconic celebration of Marcus Rashford's temple, in addition to kissing the United Badge, he was recruited in the training of the first Team both on Friday and Saturday.
Others, such as James Scanlon, who scored twice in that victory over Chelsea, also appeared in those sessions, but it was Obi who gave the approval to be the attack option in the Tottenham bank.
The young Dane, who has also represented England at the youth level and is eligible for Nigeria, has been integrated into the first meal team and has also been included in his gymnastics sessions to further relieve his integration.
Joshua Zirkzee is providing a role as older brother for OBI, the sources say, while fellow Dane Patrick Dorgu has been key to helping the 17 -year -old player to establish themselves in the costume of the first team.
Seeing OBI in close late, it is clear that he offers Amorim and his staff a different profile to any of his other strikers, a genuine threat that is going back that is improving all the time.
Amorim has gone from using the striker to compensate for the numbers in the recovery sessions to track it in more detail
Obi was news when he made the celebration of Marcus Rashford and kissed United's badge after a hat-trick against Chelsea
Joshua Zirkzee has assumed a role as older brother with OBI in the ranks of United's first team
Their punctuation capabilities do not need introduction and Mail sport He has observed widely in those under 18 and under 21 this season, where much of the approach has been in the OBI press and helping to shape a complete striker who can take the Premier League by assault.
It is not so vocal in the field and that may need to change if it will become one of the best young strikers in the league.
After playing 90 minutes for children under 21 in Altrincham in a defeat of the Premier League International Cup of FC Nordsjaelland on January 21, it was OBI who was in the field with the head of U21 Travis Binnion long after That the fans were gone and the teammates had entered inside.
The couple spoke extensively about their positioning and the improvement areas that it can, and needs, to do before the highest level. It was a good sign that was not lost in the explorers who attended.
Amorim knows the potential he has in his hands. That's why it was Obi, and not the other six products of the Academy at the Tottenham Bank, which turned to bring with its only submarine, which makes it the third young man of the Premier League of the Premier League of Manchester , behind Angel Gomes (16 years, 8m, 20d) and Shola Shoretire (17y, 19d) – in the process.
“With 10 minutes, I told Jaap (Stam):” Why does he (Amorim) not put one of the young people? “, 'For former United Peter Schmeichel goalkeeper said in Viaplay over the weekend.
'He put the young Danish, OBI, in the 90th minute. Why doesn't he put himself in the 80th minute? Give it a chance.
'He is a player who can score goals. Give it a little more time in the field. It is a classic Manchester United story; A young boy that nobody knows, who takes a step forward and becomes a hero.
The former United Peter Schmeichel goalkeeper urged Amorim to use one of his young people before Tottenham
Obi is now ready for a greater participation of the first team and will hunt a first goal from the Premier League
Manchester United is crying by goals after a tenth game of the league this season in which they failed to score, and now his best attacker in Amad Diallo seems to be ready for the rest of the campaign.
Obi and his team pressed to join United in part because they felt that he had the fastest route to football of the first team in the northwest, instead of in northern London. For now, his brother Chukwuemeka Obi is exercising his trade in West Ham, but remains one to see move on.
“Thanks to The Gaffer and the Club for making a dream come true for me and my family,” wrote the player on Instagram after his Tottenham cameo.
Tottenham marked chapter one for OBI in a united shirt. Now the goal is a senior objective; a historical one in that. He has five months and three days to become the youngest Premier League goal in Manchester United. That would really show Arsenal exactly what they are being lost.