Sky Sports<\/a>, Heaven\u2019s mother noted that the teenager was utterly convinced by a move to United after meeting with the club.<\/p>\nBarcelona invited Heaven for talks the very next morning, but he snubbed the Catalan giants in favour of United.<\/p>\n
Lisa loved that decisiveness from her son and added that she had been watching Ruben Amorim\u2019s plans very closely before committing to United.<\/p>\n
\u201cAyden walked away, going, \u2018yeah, it\u2019s United\u2019,\u201d said Lisa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked again in the morning because we were invited to Barcelona the next day, and he said, \u2018nope, it\u2019s United\u2019. That\u2019s why I knew it was the best move for him because he\u2019s picked it from the heart, and if he\u2019s got the heart and the loyalty, then that\u2019s what wins the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d been watching United, I knew Ayden\u2019s playing style, and I knew what Ruben liked. Ayden had the same confidence,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Ayden Heaven on Manchester United move<\/p>\n
Heaven himself commented on the move and just why he was attracted to joining United in the first place.<\/p>\n
Arsenal had given Heaven a first-team debut in a Carabao Cup clash with Preston North End, but decided to leave just months later.<\/p>\n
Heaven noted that he saw himself fitting right into United\u2019s squad, especially due to a lack of competition in his position.<\/p>\n
Lisandro Martinez and Luke Shaw have both endured extensive injury problems, and United were looking to develop another left-footed defender.<\/p>\n
Heaven sensed that opportunity and was proven right, playing first-team football earlier than he would have done at Arsenal or Barcelona.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just saw myself in the squad because there\u2019s not much in our way, so I just felt like I could establish myself better than at other clubs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Heaven is now looking to catch the eye in pre-season, all with the aim of featuring in the Premier League kick-off against Arsenal, especially with Martinez still unavailable.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have snapped up two young talents from Arsenal over the last year, with Chido Obi and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[25717,403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-30530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ayden-heaven","9":"tag-soccer","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Manchester United\/Manchester United via Getty ImagesAyden Heaven\u2019s move to Manchester United explained<\/p>\n