Manchester United goalkeeper Tom Wooster has signed his first professional contract with the club at the age of 17.
The teenager took to Instagram to celebrate the news, as he takes a big step forward in his career.
It must have been a proud day but of course in some ways this is really the start of the hard work now, with so many goalkeepers ahead of him in the pecking order.
Wooster signed for United from Barnsley in November 2020, after he was named as their academy player of the year in 2019/20.
Barnsley academy boss Bobby Hassell told the club’s website at the time he had high hopes for Wooster.
He said: “Tom’s distribution from the goalkeeper position is as good as anything in the country for his age and, at 6’2, we have high hopes that he will go on in the coming years to come Barnsley’s number one goalkeeper.”
Plenty of United’s talented youngsters, such as Zidane Iqbal were in the replies of his post, congratulating him on the news.
Of course, the journey to the first team is another conversation entirely but that is for another time, and he will know that too.
Wooster has clearly impressed since making the jump from Barnsley and has duly been rewarded. He needs to keep working hard and pushing on.
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