Manchester United have made a mountain out of a molehill with Andre Onana

Rainier Koers is not a full-time member of staff at Manchester United but a performance psychologist should not have been required to analyse the Andre Onana situation.

United successfully kept Onana for their first two games this month while his Cameroon teammates prepared for the Africa Cup of Nations. Cameroon's first match against Guinea kicked off a day after United drew with Tottenham.

Both Tottenham goals were not outright goalkeeper errors but Onana was culpable. Partly recruited for his sweeping, Onana was statuesque for the corner that Richarlison nodded in from.

Richarlison rose in the six-yard box - the goalkeeper's domain. Yet Onana was so rooted to his line he could have been mistaken for David de Gea. For Rodrigo Bentancur's strike 50 seconds into the second half, Onana shrank when he had to grow.

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If Onana was more upright, the ball would have hit him. That is two more saveable goals conceded by the £47.2million goalkeeper who had transferred on a free to Inter Milan 12 months earlier.

Onana hot-footed it to Manchester Airport shortly after full-time to board a private jet and fly nearly 5,000 miles to Abidjan in Ivory Coast. He arrived in Yamoussoukro three hours before kick-off and was omitted from the squad.

The 27-year-old reputedly complained to the former Liverpool forward El Hadi-Diouf, "If I wasn’t going to play or make the team, then why did I come here on a private jet?”

“I have a lot to say but I will not say it here because we are in competition,” Onana told Canal+. “Let me continue to be criticised, I am used to it. I do what is