Manchester United U-18 captain Teden Mengi could be promoted to first team- revealed by U-23 manager
It has been revealed by United U-23 coach Neil Wood that youngster Teden Mengi could be promoted to first team as club did for Brandon Williams and Mason Greenwood in recent past.
Tedan captains Manchester United U-18s, and his mouthwatering displays has saw him played U-23 games this season before the campaign’s hit by coronavirus.
The 18-year old center-back by far has established as a regular member for the U-23s, appearing in all three of their EFL Trophy encounters earlier in the season.
His eye catching displays in Neil Wood’s side have come along with sweet words and sign of big things ahead for the youngster from his U-23 boss Wood.
“We’ll be looking to work with Teden next season and he’s one we want to ‘do a Brandon’ with,” Wood told MEN.
“He came up to us quite early on in the season and, a bit like Brandon [Williams] in a sense, he came from the U18s and took his chance. He played really well and he kept his place in the team.
“And when he dropped back down at the end of the season to lead the Youth Cup team, he put in some excellent performances there.
“We’ll be looking to work with him next season and he’s one we want to ‘do a Brandon’ with, push him on and the goal is to try and get him pushed up into that first team if we can.”
If Wood words are to go by, Teden could soon be promoted into the senior squad managed by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, having together with his technical staffs guided the progress of Greenwood into senior side in October 2018.
Teden sat on the bench for the Red Devils’ Europa League trip to Astana earlier this year as he waits for his first team debut.
The center-back recent training with the senior squad after the coronavirus pandemic and shown that coming months may provide the ideal opportunity for Mengi to make up Ole’s squad.
Specifically, in measurements taken of the squad’s individual workouts during football’s shutdown, Mengi is said to have clocked the fourth-fastest running speed of the entire club, revealed by the Sun report.
The report suggested that only Jesse Lingard, Axel Tuanzebe and first-placed Daniel James clocked a quicker pace than the teenager in this top-speed test.
Teden’s recent development could relief United’s quest to enter into the summer transfer market for a center back which if that happens, they would spend big money to sign targets, having already been linked with Napoli center-back Kalidou Koulibaly and Valladolid star Mohammed Salisu.
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