Former United wonderkid Ten Hag sold for peanuts set for World Cup adventure

Manchester United will have several of their current players involved at the World Cup for some of the biggest nations. Current United squad Kobbie Mainoo and Marcus Rashford will represent England, while Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot will play a crucial role for Portugal. Casemiro and Matheus Cunha will represent Brazil, and Lisandro Martinez has been selected for Argentina. Manuel Ugarte, Senne Lammens, Amad and Noussair Mazraoui will also join up with their respective nations. Zidane Iqbal There will also be a role for some former United players in the World Cup, and this is true for former player, Zidane Iqbal. Iqbal came through Carrington, joining at age nine, and signed his first professional deal in 2021. He also made his senior debut in December that year in the Champions League. As a result, “he became the first British-born South Asian as well as the first Iraqi to play for the club, and the first ever British South Asian to play in the Champions League.” In June 2023, he left the club and joined Utrecht. Iraq call up Iqbal has played for his nation 20 times and scored two goals since making his debut in 2022. TalkSPORT report that, “former Manchester United youngster Zidane Iqbal has been named in Iraq’s World Cup squad.” Iqbal has only featured seven times for Utrecht’s senior side, mainly playing his football for the youth team in spite of being 23 years old. The article reports that, “Iraq have been drawn in Group I and will face Norway in Boston, France in Philadelphia and then Senegal in Toronto.” The Peoples Person has been one of the world’s leading Man United news sites for over a decade. Follow us on Bluesky: @peoplesperson.bsky.social Alex Browne Alex is a huge Manchester United fan, inspired by greats of his homeland such as George Best, Harry Gregg and Norman Whiteside. Alex has a Master’s degree from Queen’s University Belfast and La Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, Spain. Having lived in the country since 2011, Alex is The Peoples Person’s Spanish football expert and is fluent in both Spanish and Catalan. He dreams of witnessing a United captain triumphantly hoisting the Premier League and Champions League trophy in the air once more.