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Robin Van Persie and Rio Ferdinand are the newest former Manchester United gamers to wax lyrical about striker Rasmus Hojlund.
Regardless of a tricky begin to life as a United participant, the Danish striker has been in chic type after Christmas, as he has scored in six of his final seven video games for the Mancunian facet.
The 21 yr previous lately celebrated his birthday with a thunderous strike to open the scoring towards West Ham and adopted this up with a poacher’s end to poke United in entrance towards Aston Villa.
Each opening objectives had been important as they gave United a platform to go on and be victorious in two essential video games which have put the Pink Devils in a a lot better place for Champions League qualification than they had been a couple of weeks in the past.
Talking on the Vibe with FIVE YouTube podcast, pundit Rio Ferdinand informed the story of how he bumped into his former teammate, Robin van Persie, at Carrington and the way they had been each left impressed by Hojlund.
Van Persie was invited to the membership’s coaching floor by Erik ten Hag as a part of his UEFA teaching course expertise, and it was right here that the Premier League profitable striker may work together with United’s new first alternative entrance man.
Ferdinand commented, “I had a little bit chat with him (van Persie), bantered him about his gear” after which they noticed the Danish striker who was hanging about within the canteen. Ferdinand relates that when he acquired his likelihood, Hojlund made a beeline to the previous gamers.
“Rasmus was there, came visiting to me and Fletch having a chat about issues, what I beloved is he noticed Robin van Persie and mentioned to Darren, ‘can I get 5 minutes with him, with Robin van Persie?’”.
“Robin says ‘yeah come man’. They went away and are available again 10 to fifteen minutes later”.
“Robin says he’s asking numerous questions, the signal of somebody who desires to be taught, a scholar. It’s good that humility and humbleness to indicate. It bodes nicely for the way forward for this membership”.
The Dane has recently spoken about how he’s studying about English soccer on a regular basis and the way he has ultimately been capable of adapt to the distinctive type performed within the Premier League.
Roy Keane and Peter Schmeichel typically didn’t agree on a soccer pitch regardless of sharing such nice success collectively however one factor they do see eye to eye on is the worth of Hojlund as a participant.
The Irishman claimed that Hojlund “is on hearth in the intervening time” and should imagine he’ll rating each sport he performs after one other essential purpose towards Aston Villa.
Schmeichel has additionally been effusive in his reward for his compatriot and said, “the lad is the actual deal” and that he by no means as soon as doubted his capacity to achieve success on the membership.
The mix of the United’s younger ahead scoring objectives on the pitch but additionally being keen to be taught from the very best actually bodes nicely for the longer term, as Van Persie suggests.
