{"id":261981,"date":"2025-07-13T16:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261981\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:15:20","slug":"five-things-spotted-in-manchester-united-training-as-two-new-signings-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261981\/","title":{"rendered":"Five things spotted in Manchester United training as two new signings involved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man United have released training footage from pre-season at Carrington and here are five things we spotted.Diego Leon has trained with the first-team.(Image: Manchester United)<\/p>\n

Manchester United have enjoyed a week of training in tropical conditions at Carrington.<\/p>\n

Hot weather has swept across the United Kingdom as Ruben Amorim prepares his players for their opening pre-season friendly of the summer against Leeds in Stockholm on July 19.<\/p>\n

All of the squad have now reported back to Carrington, with the exception of those who wish to explore a move away this summer, and spirits seemed high in the training footage released by club media.<\/p>\n

So here are five things we spotted in training at Carrington…<\/p>\n

The welcome back<\/p>\n

Altay Bayindir, Casemiro, Diogo Dalot, Patrick Dorgu, Bruno Fernandes, Manuel Ugarte, Rasmus Hojlund and Chido Obi all reported back to Carrington for pre-season on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

The players who were on international duty at the end of last season were given extra time to enjoy a break.<\/p>\n

The ‘welcome back tunnel’ has become a tradition for players who return from injury at Carrington, but it was rolled out for those who returned from international duty on a sun-kissed pitch.<\/p>\n

The ‘welcome back tunnel’.Hojlund takes his chances<\/p>\n

Hojlund spectacularly regressed last season, scoring just four goals in the Premier League<\/a>, and a move to Italian club Inter Milan could be on the cards in the summer transfer window.<\/p>\n

It feels more likely that Hojlund will stay and fight for a starting place, though. The 22-year-old recently played down suggestions he could leave United when he spoke to Danish media and his finishing must improve if he stays.<\/p>\n

Perhaps that’s why United included footage of Hojlund finding the back of the net on three successive occasions in a training drill, with the striker blasting past Radek Vitek.<\/p>\n

New signing Leon involved<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, new signing Diego Leon promised he would “kill it” in pre-season to impress Amorim.<\/p>\n

United agreed a \u00a33.3million fee, rising to \u00a37m with add-ons, with Cerro Porteno and Leon is expected to be assessed in the coming weeks before a final decision is made on his next steps.<\/p>\n

Leon is clearly not short of confidence and it will be impressive if he can earn a first-team role.<\/p>\n

Leon (pictured on the left) with fellow new signing Cunha.Lacey takes part in the session<\/p>\n

Could this be the season that Shea Lacey makes a highly anticipated first-team debut? Followers of the academy will hope so, although Lacey is yet to make an appearance for the Under-21s.<\/p>\n

That has been circumstantial – Lacey was wrapped up in cotton wool at the end of last season – but it would be unheard of for an academy player to make a first-team debut without playing for the U21s.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Lacey is not an ordinary talent and it’s exciting to see him around the first-team set up.<\/p>\n

Lacey has a bright future ahead of him.Amad’s birthday bash<\/p>\n

Amad celebrated his 23rd birthday on Friday and was treated to a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’.<\/p>\n

The winger’s teammates and club staff serenaded the popular Amad as he clapped along himself.<\/p>\n

Amad was one of the only players to emerge from last season with credit. He was superb until sustaining an ankle injury in training in February and should be a key player again in 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n

Amad celebrated his birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man United have released training footage from pre-season at Carrington and here are five things we spotted.Diego Leon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,423,99,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-manchester-united-fc","13":"tag-ruben-amorim","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114846821937647043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}