Do any of Man United's loanees stand a chance of making the first team?
Andy Mitten, Manchester United writer
Manchester United have four first team squad members on loan and all will return to Old Trafford at the end of this season. They've had largely positive seasons, too, though whether they'll still be with their parent clubs at the start of the 2019-20 campaign is as yet unclear.
Dean Henderson, 22, has enjoyed the most success as a goalkeeper for a Sheffield United side that has won promotion to the Premier League for the first time since 2007. He has kept 20 clean sheets and was voted the club's young player of the year. He's keen to stay for another year in Sheffield and play Premier League football rather than return to Manchester as the third- or even fourth-choice goalkeeper.
Henderson, from Cumbria (100 miles north of Manchester), joined United at 14 from Carlisle. He is confident and single minded. Jose Mourinho wanted him to travel on the club's 2018 preseason tour to the U.S. but Henderson questioned why that would be a good idea, suggesting that it would be better if he did preseason training with a club for which he was likely to play first-team football. Mourinho couldn't argue with that and he moved to Bramall Lane.
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Loan moves at successively bigger clubs in higher leagues have helped the England Under-21 regular. He joined Sheffield United after spells at Stockport County, Grimsby and Shrewsbury Town, where he was named in the team of the year for the division. Manchester United rate him and have watched him in every game he has played on loan. The club thinks he needs to be more consistent and continue his development but with questions over the futures of David de Gea and Sergio Romero, it doesn't harm to have a young talented goalkeeper on your books who has shown he can be a regular in the top flight.
Mourinho praised another 22-year-old goalkeeper on his books, Joel Castro Pereira. The Swiss-born Portuguese national is on loan at Belgian first division side Kortrijk until the end of this season, having spent the first half of it in Mourinho's hometown of Setubal in the Portuguese Primeira Liga. That loan spell was cut short in January. United wanted him to get as many games as possible and signed Lee Grant as the third-choice goalkeeper knowing Pereira, who also played an EFL cup game in 2017, would be away.
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From: espn
