In the 2013-2014 season, Adnan Yanuzai was to become David Moyes’s lifesaver at Manchester United. The club, which turned out to be restless after the retirement of the former boss, Sir Alex Ferguson, overnight exposed all his weaknesses. In addition, the players did not particularly favor the new mentor, referring to training and playing through their sleeves. At this very time, several young football players shone in the reserve team at once, among which Adnan Yanuzai occupied a special place. Photos and some interesting facts from the biography of a young Belgian we will provide in the materials of the next publication.
Interest from United Scouts
Yanuzai is considered to be a “homegrown” footballer who went through training at the youth academy of Manchester United. But it is not so. Scouts select young football players for training, usually at an early age, no later than 10 years. Adnan's parents, Albanians by origin, emigrated from Kosovo to Belgium and it was there that his first steps in his professional career began.
Already at the age of 6, the boy began training at the Brussels Football Academy. There, the scouts of Anderlecht noticed him and only then he fell into the sphere of interests of the English grand. As a result, Adnan Yanuzai moved to Manchester United at the age of 16, where he began playing for the youth team. However, in fact, a young Belgian can be considered homegrown, because according to the rules of the English league, a football player who spent 3 years in her local club system until her full adulthood is considered such.
Transition to an adult team
Undoubtedly, Yanuzai has talent and a great prospect. In his only season at the helm of the Red Devils, David Moyes led the young man to the games in the main team with extreme caution, without forcing events. The young Belgian, who at that time was 18 years old, could easily get into the application for the Champions League group stage match, but never play a minute on the field. But very soon, Adnan Yanuzay will literally have to puff out for the entire basic structure of United, and fans will see in him the only bright spot in the game of the club being rebuilt. Therefore, it is believed that it was David Moyes who revealed the Belgian talent at such a high level.
In one of the interviews, the coach spoke of Yanuzai as a universal attacking midfielder, ready to play both in the center of the field and on the flanks. However, the position of the “ten” was considered for Yanuzai only for the future. In addition, at United under Moyes there were not enough cool flank footballers with high speed and excellent dribbling. And Adnan Yanuzai coped with the mission entrusted to himself, only the more experienced partners did not support the young Belgian in this endeavor. The season of the team was completely failed, and Moyes retired.
Rent in Borussia
When Louis Van Gall stood at the helm of the team, he instantly debugged tough discipline in the team, sorted out a third of the players, and acquired star or promising players in their place. Thus, Adnan Yanuzai again had to prove his place in the starting lineup, which he did not particularly succeed in. The next Belgian in the next season for himself in the adult team “United” appeared on the field except to replace it. Various submarine clubs immediately expressed a desire to seize young talent by renting it from the Mankunians.
Fans were indignant. Why are the Belgians not given a chance to prove themselves? And Van Gall seemed to hear the angry statements of the fans. The season 2015-2016 Adnan Yanuzai begins in the starting lineup, in one of the games he even scored a victory goal for his team. But the general impression of the football player’s game left much to be desired, and he was sent on loan to Borussia Dortmund until June 30, 2016 in order not to lose the game practice.