Seconds before the curtain came down on a trying Manchester United season, a final consolatory positive seeped through Hong Kong’s unrelenting matchday shower, sourced from one of our term’s true silver linings.
Ayden Heaven’s first senior goal for United – a booming headed conversion of a teasing penalty-box inswinger from Amad – was a fitting way to round off a campaign in which the young mid-season arrival has firmly established himself as a first-teamer of the present and future at Old Trafford.
The 18-year-old had only played 10 minutes of professional football when he left Arsenal to become Ruben Amorim’s maiden signing in February, but the declaration that he would go straight into our senior squad in his transfer announcement was a sign of the talent and potential he was already valued with in these parts.