Tahith Chong has a base place at Manchester United on Sunday afternoon, which will play against manager Wayne Rooney’s Derby County in a friendly. It may be the last time that the Dutch attacker wears the shirt of the Red Devils wear. Chong will play on a rental basis for Championship club Birmingham City next season, although it has been agreed that he will spend part of the preparation at Manchester United.
“Manchester United were kind enough to trust us, which has enabled us to bring in such a talented player,” Birmingham manager Lee Bowyer said of Chong’s loan deal on Friday. “My job now is to make sure he returns to Manchester United as a better player, and I’m very confident about that. I’m really looking forward to working with him. He’s yet to arrive here, but I really want him.” see it at work once. I think the Championship is a great challenge for him,” said the choice lord of the Blues nice words about Chong.
Tahith Chong makes a move to Championship on a rental basis
The loan deal for the attacker at Birmingham City was recently announced.
Chong will play at the Championship club with Dutch talent Juan Familia-Castillo, who is rented from Chelsea. The 21-year-old striker started last season at Werder Bremen. His rental period was cut short at the end of January. Werder Bremen reported through the club channels that Chong himself had asked for an early departure, but BILD wrote that Manchester United had expressed that wish. Chong had been out of action in the Bundesliga for several weeks. He made the switch to Club Brugge, for which he played ten league matches.
Chong has a contract with Manchester United until the summer of 2022, with an option for an extra year. The youth international of the Dutch played five league matches for the club, spread over the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons. Including appearances in domestic and European cup tournaments, he came to sixteen official duels. When he signed his last contract at Old Trafford in March 2020, coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer expressed his satisfaction with the development of Feyenoord’s youth product. “Tahith works very hard every day and keeps getting better. He has enormous potential. With his age, qualities and work ethic, a bright future awaits him at Manchester United.”
Solskjaer cannot yet have the European Championship goers Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Marcus Rashford and Bruno Fernandes against Derby. In addition, Jadon Sancho has not yet been definitively taken over from Borussia Dortmund. Donny van de Beek, who missed the European Championship due to a groin injury, is not included in the match selection for Sunday afternoon’s exhibition game. Manchester United have not revealed whether the midfielder is still dealing with the aftermath of the injury or if there is another reason for his absence.