Manchester United has reportedly won the competitive race Sign Arsenals highly valued academy player Ayden Heaven.
The 18-year-old defense lawyer went from West Ham United to Arsenal’s youth setup more than five years ago and was promoted to the U21 team after the pre-season of the first team. The sky gave its senior debut in the Carabao Cup at the beginning of this season, but still has to earn a single minute of the Premier League football.
The Arsenal fan of childhood will no longer have a contract this summer and is interested in numerous clubs on the entire continent, including Spanish giants Barcelona. However, United is ready to snap the talent in teenage with an agreement Fabrizio Romano.
Arsenal supposedly offered the sky to a new deal and a Bundesliga outfit Eintracht Frankfurt to several approaches, all of which were rejected. The sky has booked its medicine at United and could be announced later this week.
As a versatile defender with the left foot, the sky was advertised as a backup for Lisandro Martinez in Ruben Amorim’s back-three system.
“I’ve always been quite big, so I had the advantage of using my physical properties against the other players who were usually much smaller than me,” the English U19 international recalled in an interview with the official Arsenal website. The sky is more than 6’2 (1.89 m) and still has a physical lead of most high -ranking players – it is five inches larger than Martinez as a reference.
While he has experience of playing in a flat four-man afterlife as a left-back, it remains to be seen whether United will look back as an option for wings.
Amorim has identified the left-handed role in its preferred 3-4-3 form as an era in desperate needs of reinforcements. United has rejected several offers for Lecces Patrick Dorgu with this window and it is also assumed that he triggers the shopping clause in Alvaro Carreras’ contract in Benfica.