Manchester United ace shows he’s a ‘Real Madrid-level player’ out on loan

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Mason Greenwood is proving himself to be a forward with talent befitting of a Barcelona or a Real Madrid with the Manchester United loanee impressing at La Liga outfit Getafe.

It was a goal reminiscent of the rocket he launched into the Leicester City net back in October 2021. A strike which came only a few months before Mason Greenwood was placed on suspension by Manchester United.

Back playing regular first-team football for the first time since then, Greenwood’s 30-yard scorcher during last weekend’s 2-1 victory over Almeria offered a reminder as to why there was such excitement at Old Trafford when the academy graduate burst onto the scene under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

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“He hadn’t played for a long time so, when he started (at Getafe), he was finding it tough. But the goal at the weekend was just breathtaking,” La Liga expert Terry Gibson, himself a former Man United forward, explains on El Tel and Jon’s La Liga Weekly podcast.

“He looks now to be nearing full fitness and he’s going to be an incredible asset to Getafe.”

The former England international now has five goals or assists in just seven starts in Spain’s top flight. That net-buster against Almeria, Gibson argues, would not have looked out of place at the Camp Nou or at the Santiago Bernabeu, the reaction from a stunned Getafe crowd belying a fanbase who have seldom witnessed talents of such searing potential.

‘A brilliant strike’

“He shouldn’t be at Getafe in terms of the quality and the level of his play. You look at him and you think; ‘That is a Barcelona or Real Madrid-level player’,” Gibson adds.

“It was a brilliant goal. A brilliant strike. A look of surprise from everyone in the stadium because they are not used to that quality!

“From a football perspective, he is of a level far too high for Getafe. He’s not going to be at Getafe next season.”

Exactly where Greenwood will be plying his trade in 2024/25, then, remains to be seen. According to The Sun, there is interest from other La Liga clubs should he wish to stay in Spain. Valencia are one. A Real Sociedad side who tried and failed to bring in Donny van de Beek during the summer are another.