Patrick Dorgu has been putting in extra work with a personal coach before Manchester United's squad reports back to Carrington. The individual sessions have focused on movement, agility, dribbling and one-on-one finishing, and the footage showed him in a retro France World Cup 1998 top.
Dorgu has also given United a few reasons to think more seriously about him as a left-sided attacking option. In his latest five-match sample, he has 1 goal and 1 assist, with a 7.0 average rating and an 8.2 against Brighton as his best recent performance.
Carrick's left-side question
Michael Carrick will be encouraged by that sort of head start. Supporters are already talking up the possibility of Dorgu playing higher up on the left, and one fan put it bluntly: "He’s got a serious left foot on him. For me, he should definitely play left-wing for us."
There is a fair logic to the idea. Dorgu scored United's Goal of the Season with a 30-yard volley away at Arsenal, so the attacking upside is not some speculative add-on. It sits alongside a season where Carrick took charge of 17 matches as caretaker manager and won 12 of them, with United finishing third in the Premier League and returning to the Champions League.
The caveat is simple enough. Early training work does not solve a selection problem on its own, and United still need to see the same level carry over once the squad is back together. But Dorgu has at least made the left-side discussion feel more credible than it did a few weeks ago.
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