'I was looking forward to it' – Anthony Elanga opens up on Man Utd exit after wish for first-team chances | C34XOKJ | 2024-02-28 16:08:01
Anthony Elanga was wanting forward to receiving first-team possibilities underneath Eik ten Hag at Manchester United but was left needing a recent start at Nottingham Forest.
The Sweden international broke into the United first-team beneath Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, scoring a memorable Champions League goal against Atletico Madrid in the 2021-22 season the place he made 26 appearances, 16 of those coming from the beginning.
Opportunities dried up underneath ten Hag following the Dutchman's arrival in Manchester in 2022, starting simply five league matches final time period, all of these coming inside the first three months of the season.
Ten Hag arrived in Manchester with a popularity for creating youth talent with youngsters Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt key figures in his Ajax aspect that reached the Champions League semi-final in 2019.
Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo have shone underneath the Dutchman while Elanga was also hopeful of pushing on underneath his steerage at Previous Trafford.
The 21-year-old is now enjoying a fine season at Forest, admitting his lack of possibilities in Manchester meant he had no selection but to seek a recent challenge.
'It was troublesome [to leave] however it was wanted because I needed to play and I didn't need to spend one other season just enjoying ten minutes or not enjoying for ten games,' Elanga advised The Occasions.
'I needed a recent begin but I knew it wouldn't be straightforward leaving a club that I had been at for nine years.'
He continued: 'Typically soccer is like that, it won't all the time work somewhere," Elanga says. "I had seen what he did at Ajax so I was wanting ahead to it however I simply didn't get the alternatives.'
Elanga's former youth teammate Mainoo has excelled within the first-team picture, beginning the final nine league video games and shortly turning into considered one of his aspect's most necessary operators in midfield.
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Elanga stated of Mainoo: 'He's a tremendous participant and a prime individual and I simply need him to keep doing what he's doing as a result of the sky's the restrict for him.
'I'm not stunned at all. I noticed it once I was enjoying with him within the academy for the Beneath-19s Youth League.
'People who have the actual eye, they'll know he plays the same as he did within the academy. Clearly he's had to adapt but he nonetheless plays the same enjoying type.'
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