Manchester United have confirmed that new signing Leny Yoro will put on the quantity 15 shirt within the coming season.
The 18-year-old sealed a £52m change to Outdated Trafford earlier this week, with the Pink Devils sneaking forward of long-term admirers Actual Madrid to persuade Yoro to make the transfer to Manchester as a substitute.
United confirmed forward of Saturday’s pleasant towards Rangers, through which Yoro might make his first look for the membership, that the centre-back will put on the quantity 15 shirt through which he made his identify at Lille.
The 15 has been free since Sergio Reguilon’s mortgage from Tottenham Hotspur expired in January and was maybe most famously worn by Nemanja Vidic between 2006 and 2014.
Yoro had been broadly anticipated to affix Actual Madrid this summer time however the Spanish giants declined to match United’s bid and as a substitute hoped {the teenager} would snub a transfer to Outdated Trafford and transfer to Madrid on a free switch subsequent summer time.
Nonetheless, a name from a United legend helped persuade Yoro to take his abilities to the Premier League.
“United legend? For example Rio Ferdinand,” Yoro advised United media. “I do not even know if I can clarify this man however he is a prime defender and a extremely good man.
“I simply referred to as him however I hope to satisfy him quickly. Not immediately, however in the course of the switch market. He helped me quite a bit to make my selection, he defined how large United is, so it was actually good for me.”
Yoro’s signing is the not solely piece of serious enterprise concluded by United this summer time. Joshua Zirkzee has arrived from Bologna to offer competitors for Rasmus Hojlund up entrance and there is a want from membership chiefs to signal one other centre-back alongside Yoro.
Two bids for Everton’s Jarrad Branthwaite have been rebuffed, leaving Matthijs de Ligt to be the first goal in United’s crosshairs. Talks have been held with Bayern Munich over a possible charge, with the Dutchman eager to reunite with supervisor Erik ten Hag, who he beforehand labored with at Ajax.
