Ruben Amorim has suggested he is prepared to provide teenager Ayden Heaven a consistent run within the Manchester United first-team.
Heaven left Arsenal in January to affix United for a modest fee of £1.5million, becoming the second teenager to swap north London for Manchester following Chido Obi’s move in September.
Heaven was immediately added to United’s first-team squad having managed only one senior appearance for Arsenal, making his debut off the club within the FA Cup defeat against Fulham at the start of March.
The teenager got here off the bench against his former club last trip within the Premier League, replacing the injured Leny Yoro at half-time.
On Thursday night, he was handed his first start within the Europa League clash against Real Sociedad, preferred to Victor Lindelof to assist United ease to a 4-1 victory.
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With Lisandro Martinez out for the season and Yoro expected to miss this weekend’s game against Leicester City, Heaven could possibly be handed one other start after impressing in his early outings in United colors.
‘If he continues like that he’s going to play,’ Amorim said on Friday.
‘After all he’s young, he didn’t play much this season perhaps just 45 minutes for the Under-21s then just a few minutes here and now a full game.’
The United boss went onto name three key attributes he sees in Heaven, describing the 18-year-old as ‘quite complete’ despite his tender years.
‘I actually like his confidence, I like his pace, I believe he’s good in defending the box.
‘He’s quite complete but he has quite a lot of work to do.
‘Within the Premier League he’ll face a distinct form of player and he will probably be tested otherwise so we try to administer this because he continues to be really young.’
United head to the King Power Stadium to tackle Leicester of their final game before the March international break.
The 2 sides have already met 3 times across all competitions this season, with United winning all of them.
Ruud van Nistelrooy guided United to wins within the reverse Premier League fixture and the Carabao Cup in November before taking up the Foxes job at the tip of the month.
United needed a really late winner from Harry Maguire to get themselves over the road within the FA Cup fourth round meeting last month.
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