Zidane Iqbal and Charlie Savage: Man Utd senior teammates made us feel included | OneFootball

Zidane Iqbal and Charlie Savage says they felt always include during their first senior preseason at Manchester United.

Both players have been part of United's preseason from day one.

Iqbal said: "All the team welcome you in and make you comfortable. We could go on with names, but I would be naming loads of people because they all look after you.

"They try and make you feel part of it straight away. I think Charlie would agree, we have no way near made it yet. We have been on pre-season with United and it was massive to make my international debut. It was also amazing to play in the Champions League, but I want to say that there will be more to come.

"We are still young lads and hopefully we can have bright futures. As long as we stay [with] our feet on the ground and keep working hard, I don't see why we won't get where we want to be."

Savage also told the club's website: "We had a pretty similar step into training and it was towards the start of last season. We made our debuts at the same time in December - so maybe a couple of months before that we were brought in around it for training with the first team.

"I was a bit nervous, make sure your first touch is okay, your first pass is okay! But all the lads in the first team were great with us and especially the ones who have done it from the academy.

"Maybe people don't realise how much parents do for academy players. I used to train around different clubs and it was sometimes seven days a week that I would be out the house. I would come home from school about 4pm and be back in the house at 10-11pm. My mum and dad did that for six hours, seven days a week for 10-plus years.

"Luckily, we have had the chance to play that one time for United in the first team. But there are parents who make that [same commitment] and they might be lucky enough to play a minute, so a shout-out to all those parents that do that."