{"id":579268,"date":"2026-04-03T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579268\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:08:08","slug":"shea-lacey-man-utd-forward-can-fully-transition-into-first-team-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/579268\/","title":{"rendered":"Shea Lacey: Man Utd forward ‘can fully transition into first team eventually’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United Under-21 coach Adam Lawrence says the club are excited about teenager Shea Lacey’s progress and he is now virtually a full-time member of the first-team squad.<\/p>\n

After four occasions as an unused substitute, England Under-20 forward Lacey was given his senior bow by Ruben Amorim in the 2-1 loss at Aston Villa<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old also played in both matches during Darren Fletcher’s short stint as interim boss, catching the eye with a late cameo at Burnley before being sent off in the FA Cup defeat by Brighton<\/a> – when his reaction to conceding a free-kick led to a second caution and a one-match ban.<\/p>\n

Lacey has been on the first-team bench just once since Michael Carrick took over in January but, after six goals in three under-21 games and recovering from a calf issue, he looks set to be in Lawrence’s team for the Premier League International Cup quarter-final with Real Madrid at Old Trafford on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

United’s coaching staff believe Lacey’s red card – which he publicly apologised for – has played a valuable role in in his development.<\/p>\n

“Shea is quite a unique case,” Lawrence said.<\/p>\n

“He’s always had an elite technical level. He can do things with the ball which are, without getting too carried away, genuinely first-team level.<\/p>\n

“But he’s been a later developer physically, so players like that need more time and patience.<\/p>\n

“Day-to-day Shea will train with the first team and basically follow their programme, and then be topped up with under-21 games when he needs to be playing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United Under-21 coach Adam Lawrence says the club are excited about teenager Shea Lacey’s progress and he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-579268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}