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Manchester United’s latest signing Patrick Dorgu grew up a Chelsea fan.
The 20 yr previous was signed from Lecce in January for a €35 million deal.
The wing-back made his debut final night time in United’s last-ditch 2-1 win over Leicester Metropolis within the fourth spherical of the FA Cup.
The Dane was taken off at half-time however he can think about himself unfortunate as he was the group’s uncommon bright spark in a boring first half exhibiting.
He was curiously chosen at proper wing-back regardless of many assuming he would begin on the left to permit both Diogo Dalot or Noussair Mazraoui to start out on their extra pure proper hand facet.
On signing for the membership, Dorgu stated that “it feels superb to be a part of the household. I’m very excited to get going. I’ve heard concerning the unbelievable assist and I’m blissful to be one of many gamers of United now.”
“It’s an enormous membership. It’s the most important membership in England and I’m actually trying ahead to working with the brand new supervisor [Ruben Amorim] and I really feel the system fits me very well. So I’m excited to be right here.”
Nevertheless, The Daily Mail experiences that in an interview final yr, Dorgu revealed that his loyalties didn’t lie with United when he was a teenager.
“I’ve been a Chelsea fan for a few years, so clearly it’s a dream.”
He did qualify the assertion although by claiming, “this doesn’t imply I can’t transfer to different groups within the Premier League,” and this proved to be the case.
United followers is not going to be frightened an excessive amount of by this admission from Dorgu as among the membership’s best gamers grew up rooting for various groups.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was famously a Liverpool fan rising up in Norway and Roy Keane was a Tottenham Hotspur supporter as a boy in Eire.
Dorgu will hope to construct on a promising first show when United journey to North London to tackle Spurs in eight days.
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