Joe Hugill was a snip at £300,000 and he has made laudable progress since joining Man United, a club he still aims to make it at.
"This'll be you soon!" Joe Hugill hollers as he finishes posing for an impromptu portrait in front of the Wigan Athletic crest.
His family travelled down from Durham to celebrate his milestone. When Hugill signed for Manchester United as a 16-year-old, he was accompanied by his brother, who is still with him in the north west and attends every match he is selected in. Hugill is a warm presence and recalls our brief interaction during a media day for Manchester United's FA Youth Cup final in April 2022. Four players from that side have debuted for the club and five have made matchday squads. Hugill is one of the five.
Hugill's eye for detail is so meticulous he relishes the DW pitch due to its vast dimensions compared with other League One grounds. He noticed it as a schoolboy in the Floodlit Cup with Sunderland, where he played with Jay Turner-Cooke, now at Newcastle. Erik ten Hag is a confirmed admirer of Hugill's and promoted him to first team training at the start of pre-season last year. Hugill scored in United's first friendly against Leeds in Oslo and came on against Lyon at Murrayfield a week later.
"That’s what we were joking about when I scored against Rangers, saying that I was watching him the night before. But I’ve really enjoyed working with him, having that figure to look up to was good for me.""He said how good the finish was, the movement to create the space for me, how composed I was and I knew what I wanted to do straightaway."
"It was a good day. Garnacho scored the overhead kick as well! Could see that right from my eyeline! It was a good day. I wanted more from that day. Always wanted to be, what can I do now to keep that going?" "I had that pre-season with him in my second year . I went down to London with them and that was my first time being around the first team for a couple of weeks, so I really enjoyed that. Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna helped me a lot as well, and you look at what they’re doing now. You could always feel like they were top coaches."
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