Ayden Heaven speaks about centre-back relationships

Evans was, in fact, a team-mate of the pair at United earlier than hanging up his boots final summer time. Ayden believes the brief time he spent working with Jonny as a participant aids his relationship with him now.

“Jonny helped me quite a bit final season when he was a participant,” Heaven added. “It’s all the time good to have these senior gamers, and now that he’s a coach it’s nice to have that previous relationship with him. Me and Jonny have a great connection.”

Our creating no.26 is not solely studying from previous gamers, both. When requested which team-mates have had the most important affect on his profession to this point, he picked out Harry Maguire and former Arsenal colleague William Saliba.

“Simply having that reassurance [of them] subsequent to you,” he gave as the explanation, when increasing on his reply. “You’re not that afraid when you’ve got that have beside you.”

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