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Manchester United have unveiled the equipment quantity for brand spanking new signing Diego Leon.
Leon formally indicators for United
United formally introduced Leon’s arrival earlier this month from Paraguayan outfit Cerro Porteno. He made 37 senior appearances for the membership.
The Crimson Devils really struck an settlement with Corre Porteno in January at across the £3.3 million mark.
Each events then reached a consensus that Leon would seal his swap to Outdated Trafford throughout the summer season switch window.
He has since been coaching with the primary workforce as he appears to be like to impress Ruben Amorim and his teaching employees and persuade them that he must be a mainstay within the senior squad.
Noises popping out of Carrington are that Leon has executed effectively in pre-season coaching, displaying why the Crimson Devils swooped in for him.
A latest report lined by The Peoples Individual relayed that United don’t have any plans of sending the 18-year-old out on mortgage. He’ll stay at Outdated Trafford and both be a part of the primary workforce or line up for the Below-21s and proceed his improvement.
United affirm Leon’s squad quantity
United have introduced that Leon will put on the quantity 30 shirt heading into the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
The total-back wore the quantity 37 at Cerro Porteno and quantity 4 for the Paraguay Below-20 workforce.
The membership notice about Leon, “The 18-year-old has skilled with the senior squad and is settling into his new atmosphere effectively.”
The quantity 30 shirt at United has beforehand been donned by the likes of John O’Shea and Guillermo Varela. Its most up-to-date proprietor was goalkeeper Nathan Bishop, who departed Outdated Trafford in August 2023 to affix Sunderland.
United followers might get the possibility to see Leon in motion on Saturday when Ruben Amorim and his gamers tackle Leeds United in a pre-season pleasant in Sweden.
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