Patrick Dorgu's Man Utd transfer? The making of the Lecce and Denmark left-back at FC Nordsjaelland explained

27 January 2025, 15:40 | Updated: 28 January 2025, 08:40

Manchester United's interest in Patrick Dorgu highlights how quickly the young Denmark international has progressed. He only made his debut in senior football last year but the Lecce left-back is already keen to take the next step in his career.

Lecce themselves, clinging determinedly to their Serie A status for a third season in a row, identified Dorgu in FC Nordsjaelland's famed academy before he had even broken through. There too, at FCN, there is pride and satisfaction at the player's development.

"Our good scouting spotted him quite fast," Alexander Riget, their technical director, tells Sky Sports. It required Riget and the current Norwich City head coach Johannes Hoff Thorup to make the trip to Jutland to see him. "It is a five-hour drive from here."

They saw something in Dorgu, just 12 years old at the time. He played "one year up" in their U13 team but was not a standout star. "He was always a good player but he developed very well a little later, at the age of 16 or 17." Before long, he was gone.

"His journey is a little different from many of our other players. Normally, they play 50 to 100 games and then leave for a bigger club." Is that frustrating? "No, we were still a very important part of his journey. We are very happy about his situation at the moment."

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