Former Manchester United defender Teden Mengi briefly forgot which membership he performed for throughout Saturday’s go to to Previous Trafford with present aspect Luton.
Mengi ended a 14-year affiliation with United when he signed for Rob Edwards’ newly-promoted aspect in the summertime.
The 21-year-old was reportedly ‘eliminated‘ from Erik ten Hag‘s first crew squad at Carrington final season, alongside a number of different gamers, to be able to make room for the membership’s new signings.
Whereas the vast majority of the opposite gamers secured mortgage strikes away from Previous Trafford in January, that wasn’t the case for Mengi.
He performed in each of United’s mid-World Cup pleasant matches, however suffered a hamstring harm within the latter recreation in opposition to Actual Betis and missed over 4 months of motion.
His Luton aspect travelled to Previous Trafford to face his former membership on Saturday – and given his lengthy stint at his boyhood membership, Mengi made a maybe comprehensible but hilarious error.
Upon getting into the dressing room part of the bottom, BBC Match of the Day 2 cameras caught Mengi greeting a membership official – earlier than strolling into the house dressing room by mistake.
The defender rapidly realised his error, although, and shared amusing about it as he walked again in direction of the away dressing room.
Since making his Luton debut in an EFL Cup tie in opposition to Exeter in September, Mengi has performed in all seven of his crew’s video games.
And talking forward of the United conflict, he instructed Sky Sports activities of his foremost motivations for departing Previous Trafford in the summertime: “I’ve moved on to take a special route in my profession, attempt to get to the place I wish to get in my profession, and that was the choice to return to Luton.
“Only a totally different problem that I did not suppose I used to be getting at United. An opportunity to play within the first crew, to showcase what I do know I am able to doing.
“No disrespect to Manchester United, however that is simply the way it works generally. There’s folks in your place. However after conversations with the supervisor [Rob Edwards], we each felt it was the precise choice for me to return right here.”
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