Manchester United casting eye over free agent goalkeeper on trial

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Ruben Amorim has seen his goalkeeping options shaken up (Picture: Getty Images)

Manchester United have taken teenage goalkeeper Adrian Janusz on trail, casting an eye over the young stopper.

The young ‘keeper has spent time with Newcastle and Brentford but is now looking to sign a contract with a new club.

The Pole is hopeful that club will be Manchester United and has been involved with the Under-21 side, reports Mail Sport.

Janusz was on the bench on Friday night as the Red Devils Under-21s took on Everton.

The trialist did not come off the bench in a 2-1 win for Manchester United Under-21s.

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The chances of Janusz having a first team future at Old Trafford may seem remote, but Senne Lammens is living that dream after making his debut against Sunderland on Saturday.

The Belgian, a summer signing from Royal Antwerp, kept a clean sheet against the Black Cats in a 2-0 victory on debut at Old Trafford.

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Adrian Janusz in action in an Under-19 game for Newcastle in 2023 (Picture: Getty Images)

Red Devils goalkeeping legend Peter Schmeichel was impressed with what he saw from the inexperienced stopper, but is not getting carried away.

‘First of all, it’s nice to see a clean sheet, then a really good and solid goalkeeping performance,’ the Dane told BBC Radio 5 Live.

‘It’s what you see, you see this young lad, he didn’t really have much to do for a long, long time, he literally only had the ball at his feet and he did quite well.

‘You’d expect that from any young goalkeeper these days – as that’s how they’re brought up – so there was some resemblance to Edwin, a couple of long balls, he had that first save down to his left, which you expect him to save, but once he’s done that, he’s a goalkeeper now, he’s saving balls.

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Senne Lammens had a good start to his Manchester United career (Picture: Getty Images)

‘From that, I think his confidence grew, you could see from the first cross, Matthijs de Ligt’s reaction was fantastic, defenders want that when they’re under the cosh to take some of that pressure off.

‘It’s not happened at Man Utd for a bit and of course, the defenders were happy about it. It’s far too early to talk about it, how good this guy is, he’s only young, he’s hardly played any competitive football, he’s most certainly not at Man Utd.

‘Unfortunately we’ve seen over the years, great players come into Man Utd and the pressure is relentless – then they can’t deal with that. It would be silly for someone like me to put more pressure on him.

‘He did well, he’s got an international break now then the next game he’s got to do the same.

‘Then we see how he develops, all goalkeepers make mistakes, that’s when we find out how good people are, in how do they react to those mistakes? It was nice, clean and positive, things that we haven’t been used to.’

Another former Red Devils goalkeeper, Ben Foster, was even more enthused, saying on his Fozcast podcast: ‘Brilliant debut.

‘Really, really good debut. I think the debut is such an important thing for a goalkeeper for that club.

‘Really, really important. And he handled it with flying colours. He really, really did.’

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