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Manchester United have unveiled the package quantity for brand 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 Pink Devils truly 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Each events then reached a consensus that Leon would seal his swap to Outdated Trafford throughout the summer season switch window.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 seems to be to impress Ruben Amorim and his teaching workers and persuade them that he must be a mainstay within the senior squad.
Noises popping out of Carrington are that Leon has finished nicely in pre-season coaching, displaying why the Pink Devils swooped in for him.
A latest report coated by The Peoples Particular person relayed that United haven’t 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 He’ll stay at Outdated Trafford and both be a part of the primary workforce or line up for the Below-21s and proceed his improvement.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 verify Leon’s squad quantity
United have introduced that Leon will put on the quantity 30 shirt heading into the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
The complete-back wore the quantity 37 at Cerro Porteno and quantity 4 for the Paraguay Below-20 workforce.
The membership observe about Leon, “The 18-year-old has skilled with the senior squad and is settling into his new atmosphere nicely.”
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 Its most up-to-date proprietor was goalkeeper Nathan Bishop, who departed Outdated Trafford in August 2023 to hitch Sunderland.
United followers could 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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