Manchester United trio have earned extra opportunity to impress Erik ten Hag

Manchester United will be pleased by the progress of their young loan cohort this season. Ethan Laird was a regular at Queens Park Rangers and Will Fish nailed down a place at Hibernian. Charlie McNeill and Charlie Savage netted first senior goals. Hannibal became a fan-favourite at Birmingham City.

But like for Fish, the season isn’t yet over for three other youngsters. The most prominent loanee this season has been Amad, who has enjoyed a very fruitful spell at Sunderland.

His 13 goals have helped the Black Cats into a Championship play-off place, the latest of which ignited the club’s 3-0 win over Preston on Monday to secure a top-six spot.

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Boss Tony Mowbray has been so impressed by him that he implored Erik ten Hag not to recall him in January. The 20-year-old went on to win the club's Young Player of the Season award and was nominated for the equivalent in the Championship honours.

Amad will be invited to the FA Cup final at Wembley by United on June 3 but will want to have stepped onto the hallowed turf himself for Sunderland a few days earlier. Two more impressive outings could see him help Sunderland to the play-off final and an unlikely chance at Premier League promotion.

United are already considering including him in next season’s plans but he can bolster his argument by showing off his credentials at crunch point in the next two and possibly three matches.

Shola Shoretire may be slightly further down the pecking order but he too has the opportunity to show his guile and wit. The 19-year-old bagged his maiden senior goal for loan club Bolton on Sunday as they gear up for the League One play-offs.

The attacker has started 12 of the 16 matches