Its about levels through. Rico walks into this United team as a regular just now, Mainoo would have a squad role between McAtee and Lewis imho at best with City.
Same as us getting excited about.......lets go with Joey Barton for shits and giggle back in 2002/3, starter for us, we're all talking him up but would he got minutes at your squad back then? Today you drop down a level after leaving us based on the squad and you start every game, Cole Palmer most recently. The hype around Mainoo just now is overinflated but fuck it, go ahead with the new contract at £80k a week as reported for another 5 years and come back to us on value for money.