Aaron Wan-Bissaka opens up on Manchester United comeback as transfer plan detailed
Here are your Manchester United morning headlines for Friday, August 11.
It was when Aaron Wan-Bissaka touched down in Perth with the Manchester United squad in July 2019 that he truly realised what he had got himself into. After one season in the Crystal Palace first-team, the right-back had made the leap to Old Trafford for a fee rising to £50million, becoming the sixth most expensive defender of all-time on the back of just 42 Premier League games.
Then aged 21, Wan-Bissaka was a symbol of United's 'cultural reset' under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. He was young, British and hungry. But he was also unexposed to anything like life in the goldfish bowl at Old Trafford, where the glare is blinding and the scrutiny relentless.
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Wan-Bissaka spent his 2018 pre-season in Denmark and Sweden, before games in Oxford, Stevenage and Reading. As a promising player at Palace, he could walk around London without being recognised on a regular basis. A year later he was in Australia, Singapore and Shanghai, being mobbed by thousands of fans and realising just how big the club he had joined was.
"As soon as we landed at the airport, it was a shock to me, but it's good to see how big the fanbase is around the world," said Wan-Bissaka.
The defender has also opened up on his struggles to hold down a first team place under Erik ten Hag.
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