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Sunderland manager gives two reasons why Amad can progress to Manchester United first team

Sunderland boss Tony Mowbray believes Amad's ability on the ball and mentality should help him progress at Manchester United.

Amad, 20, signed for United for a fee of £19million rising to £37m in October 2020 and that was a large sum for a youngster who had only played nine times, making just three starts, for Atalanta's first team.

Club figures hoped they were signing a talented winger for the future and after joining Championship club Sunderland on loan in August, Amad has shown clear signs of potential with a string of impressive performances.

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After taking some time to settle in the North East, Amad won the Player of the Month award in the Championship for December and he's contributed a total of nine goals and two assists in 20 league starts for Sunderland this season.

Mowbray was asked for his thoughts on Amad this week and he spoke highly about his ability when dribbling with the ball.

"I think my first game was against Rotherham at home and I didn’t see him [Amad] beforehand," Mowbray told MUTV. "We picked the team but we’d only had one day’s training and I think he got introduced to the crowd at half-time in that game.

"After a few weeks, I think all the coaching staff could see the talent, I’m going to say the brilliance he has with the ball. The ball seems so easy to him, on his left foot, but he needed to build his own confidence levels up, I think to the point where, maybe eight weeks ago, he was scoring almost every game. I think he goes through one spell of five in six games, something like that.

"A wonderful talent but, as you say, he’s quite a shy kid who never puts himself really forward, he never peeps up and says why didn’t you do

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