{"id":613804,"date":"2022-06-17T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613804"},"modified":"2022-06-17T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T20:51:54","slug":"manchester-united-pushing-hard-youngster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/manchester-united-pushing-hard-youngster\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United &#8216;Pushing Hard&#8217; for &#8216;Mature&#8217; 18-Year-Old With Huge Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/manchester-united-frenkie-de-jong-pursuit-2\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> are looking to sign 18-year-old Malcolm Ebiowei, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1537817755558240257?t=aaLZbgNB5cm1gipfKnWYVg&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Shrager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The winger turned out 16 times this season for Wayne Rooney&#8217;s Derby County, scoring once and adding two assists, and is seen as a player with a promising future.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#mufc<\/a> are pushing hard to secure the signing of Malcolm Ebiowei [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@JonathanShrager<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RCvaVjMxJB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RCvaVjMxJB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; United Zone (@ManUnitedZone_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManUnitedZone_\/status\/1537818349593403401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Manchester United &#8216;Pushing Hard&#8217; for 18-Year-Old With Huge Potential<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Who Is Malcolm Ebiowei?<\/h3>\n<p>The Derby County winger has made huge impressions at Pride Park this season. On top of making his first steps into senior football for the Rams, the 18-year-old has impressed in the youth leagues, scoring seven times from seven U18 Premier League appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Ebiowei spent four years with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/16\/arsenal-gabriel-jesus-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">the Arsenal<\/a> youth academy before a further one with Rangers. He then moved to Derby&#8217;s youth setup in 2021 before making his first-team debut just a few months later in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He scored his one and only senior goal in a 2-0 Championship victory over Blackpool, although Rooney&#8217;s side had already been relegated to League One by that point.<\/p>\n<h3>Manchester United Pushing Hard for Winger<\/h3>\n<p>According to Shrager, the winger is sought after and the Red Devils are looking to sign the youngster. However, reports suggest that Crystal Palace are also interested in the 18-year-old winger.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/frenkie-de-jong-play-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Read also: &#8220;Frenkie de Jong Will Be a Manchester United Player\u201d Reveals Football Insider<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United are continuing to push hard to sign Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong but Ebiowei is also a main focus for Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<h3>Other Targets<\/h3>\n<p>Shrager continues and adds that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JonathanShrager\/status\/1537818317339213826?t=rZUQRQyO2IDNyN5Xhowfww&amp;s=19\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Porto midfielder Vintinha is a target<\/a> for the Red Devils and that the club are currently discussing personal terms for him, but have not made an official bid to the Portuguese club.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fabrizio Romano claims that Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain are &#8220;closing on final details with FC Porto after agreement on personal terms with Vitinha and his agents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/manchester-united-vitinha-psg\/\" target=\"_self\">Read also: Fabrizio Romano: Manchester United Target Completes Rapid Transfer With \u20ac40 Million Release Clause Met<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United are looking to sign 18-year-old Malcolm Ebiowei, according to Jonathan Shrager. The winger turned out 16 times this season for Wayne Rooney&#8217;s Derby County, scoring once and adding two assists, and is seen as a player with a promising future. #mufc are pushing hard to secure the signing of Malcolm Ebiowei [@JonathanShrager] pic.twitter.com\/RCvaVjMxJB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":613805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[18,33,32,2,3,7188,28],"tags":[695,9264],"class_list":["post-613804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united","category-championship","category-league-football","category-featured","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-derby-county","tag-malcolm-ebiowei"],"modified_by":"Joseph Howes, Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613804","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\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}