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Manchester United are set to lose their No 1 for a month in January as Andre Onana has been referred to as up by Cameroon.
The African Cup of Nations begins on January eleventh and can run until February thirteenth and Onana will characterize his nation within the African continent’s premier worldwide competitors.
The Cameroon Nationwide crew’s X (beforehand Twitter) account shared the news-
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This places a relaxation to long-running murmurs about Onana’s worldwide future, notably for the AFCON after there was a thawing of his relationship with the nationwide crew.
The United goalkeeper had retired from the nationwide crew in a fiasco on the World Cup final yr however was reinstated into the setup this season.
When United signed him, the expectation was that he would keep retired however issues modified and maybe anticipating this, United signed a brand new backup goalkeeper in Altay Bayindir.
Bayindir is but to look for the membership, with Ten Hag stressing that Onana must play with the crew to construct understanding. The identical challenge is now anticipated to look for the Turkish goalkeeper.
If Cameroon goes all the best way to the finals, Onana will miss 4 video games for the club- Tottenham (H), Wolves (A), West Ham (H), and Aston Villa (A).
Their elimination from the Carabao Cup has enabled Onana to depart for AFCON with out the prospect of lacking extra matches.
The final recreation earlier than Onana has to depart for AFCON would be the FA Cup tie away to Wigan however Erik ten Hag may select to go together with Bayindir in that recreation to get him settled between the sticks in opposition to lower-league opposition.
In contrast to Onana, Tunisia’s Hannibal Mejbri has withdrawn from AFCON to decide to saving his United profession.
Nevertheless, their positions are vastly totally different and United are positive to attend expectantly for the Cameroonian to return and go straight again in between the posts.
