{"id":600342,"date":"2021-08-28T09:16:44","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=600342"},"modified":"2021-08-28T09:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:16:44","slug":"manchester-uniteds-dmani-mellor-salford-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/28\/manchester-uniteds-dmani-mellor-salford-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United&#8217;s D&#8217;Mani Mellor Joins Salford City on Loan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/27\/cristiano-ronaldo-return-to-manchester-united-completed\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> forward D&#8217;Mani Mellor joins Salford City on loan for the 2021\/22 season.<\/p>\n<p>Mellor is keen to experience first-team football, something he got a taste of in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/27\/europa-league-group-stage-draw-in-full\/\" target=\"_self\">Europa League<\/a> v Astana in November 2019.<\/p>\n<h2>D&#8217;Mani Mellor Joins Salford City on Loan for the Season<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Salford City is delighted to announce the loan signing of D&#8217;Mani Mellor from Manchester United!<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Peninsula Stadium, D&#8217;Mani \ud83e\udd1d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreSalford?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WeAreSalford<\/a> \ud83e\udd81\ud83d\udd34<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Salford City FC (@SalfordCityFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SalfordCityFC\/status\/1431592399114051584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Ready for First-Team Football<\/h3>\n<p>D&#8217;Mani Mellor recently returned from an anterior cruciate ligament injury after some time out of action.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old has already been involved in the goals for Manchester United&#8217;s U23s this season &#8211; scoring v <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/16\/harvey-barnes-contract-leicester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Leicester City<\/a> and assisting v <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/27\/tottenham-hotspur-chelsea-interested-in-ilaix-moriba\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> in two PL2 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Mellor also took the captain&#8217;s armband at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The forward feels he is ready for first-team football in the Football League, he told <a href=\"https:\/\/salfordcityfc.co.uk\/dmani-mellor-signs-on-loan-28082122\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">salfordcityfc.co.uk<\/a>: &#8220;I can&#8217;t wait to get started with Salford City. Having spoken to the manager and his staff, I know this is the perfect place for me to start playing regular senior football.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been at Manchester United since the age of eight, I&#8217;ve loved my time in the academy and learnt so much but I&#8217;m ready now to compete every week in the Football League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Salford is a great club, it is one I know well as a local lad, the fans are really passionate and I&#8217;m looking forward to performing for them over the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Mani Mellor will no doubt be aware of his United U23s teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/31\/hull-city-dishon-bernard-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Di&#8217;Shon Bernard<\/a>&#8216;s successful spell at the Peninsula Stadium. Bernard, a defender, made 35 appearances for the club last season and was amongst the best performers of United&#8217;s loan crop in 2020\/21. He is now on loan at Hull City in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/27\/patrick-roberts-set-for-manchester-city-departure-championship-clubs-interested\/\" target=\"_self\">Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Gary Bowyer Delighted to Add to Attacking Options as Mellor Joins Salford<\/h3>\n<p>Salford City face <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/10\/padraig-amond-exeter-city-loan\/\" target=\"_self\">Newport County<\/a> this afternoon and Mellor is available for selection.<\/p>\n<p>Salford boss Gary Bowyer thanked Manchester United, adding to the club website: &#8220;Firstly, a big thank you to all at Manchester United, this loan once again strengthens the relationship between the two clubs with Di&#8217;Shon Bernard having a successful loan here last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted that D&#8217;Mani has agreed to join us on loan and he gives us another attacking option!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is an exciting player with an incredible work rate who was very excited to come and join us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mellor will wear the number 19 shirt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"nsqkmv6OQLtGxfBpkYohCQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1234851958\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'nsqkmv6OQLtGxfBpkYohCQ',sig:'N1II3dgd8kIzZp_nBi6bNxoA-APmoFi28Y2rsHPrODA=',w:'594px',h:'569px',items:'1234851958',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United forward D&#8217;Mani Mellor joins Salford City on loan for the 2021\/22 season. Mellor is keen to experience first-team football, something he got a taste of in the Europa League v Astana in November 2019. D&#8217;Mani Mellor Joins Salford City on Loan for the Season Salford City is delighted to announce the loan signing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3469,"featured_media":600343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,32,34,18],"tags":[981,251,3990],"class_list":["post-600342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transfers","category-league-football","category-league12","category-manchester-united","tag-gary-bowyer","tag-manchester-united-academy","tag-salford-city"],"modified_by":"Jordan Hackett, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}