Manchester United keeper Senne Lammens can be “one of the world’s best” if he continues as he has started at Old Trafford.
That is the view of the club’s chief goalkeeping scout, Tony Coton, who has been hugely impressed with how the 23-year-old Belgium international has performed since his £18.1m switch from Royal Antwerp last summer.
Asked if Lammens reminded him of anyone on United’s club podcast Inside Carrington, Coton said: “He can be anything.
“If he puts the work in and he has a really good work ethic – he does. He’s got all the tools and he’s got the mental capacity to cope with it, as we’ve seen.
“From a goalkeeping point of view, I don’t want to compare him to anyone. He is Senne Lammens and he is himself, and if he keeps working as hard as he is doing and we get those little things tidied up, he can be one of the world’s best, I’m sure he can.
“He’s still got a bit to do, for me, though. He’s got a lot of improvement to do in certain areas.”
Lammens kept a clean sheet on his United debut in a 2-0 Premier League victory over Sunderland at Old Trafford on October 4 and has retained his place ever since.
Coton said: “They asked me could he go into the team and I said, ‘Yes straight away, straight away’. I had to say that anyway because I’d recommended him!”
The United scout, who was at Aston Villa at the time, revealed he had been monitoring the youngster since first coming across him as an Under-17s international in 2019.
He said: “I saw somebody that loved to protect his goal, defend his goal. It hurt him when a goal went in, it meant something because he’d conceded. He wasn’t happy.
“Even from an early age, you really had to look at him and analyse him to see which was his stronger foot.”
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