Emergency Broadcast: Leny Yoro to Manchester United

One of SCOUTED's favourite centre-backs heads to Manchester

Emergency Broadcast: Leny Yoro to Manchester United

At one point earlier this year, we thought Leny Yoro might be one of the defining transfer sagas of the summer.

Well, it looks like Manchester United have moved quickly to squash the competition. Yoro is your new favourite centre-back - unless you don’t like United, in which case he’s about to become quite annoying.

As ever, our Scouting Editor Llew Davies has been watching Yoro with an eagle eye for the best part of two years, tracking his meteoric rise towards this colossal sale at the age of just 18.

We’ve got the lowdown, the strengths, the style and the weaknesses of the Premier League’s new teenage star. Lock in.


In this broadcast:

  • Get up to speed on Leny Yoro — from a scout who’s watched him
  • The perfect partner for Lisandro — ‘the yin to his yang’
  • Is this a risk for Manchester United?
  • How he’ll fit into Erik ten Hag’s last-gasp defence

If you’d prefer to dive straight into the deep end, Llew wrote thousands of words on Yoro earlier this year, using the kind of bespoke tracking data clubs do to prepare deals of this kind. Jump straight into the definitive profile:

Leny Yoro: your new favourite centre-back
SCOUTED50 is our collection of the fifty young talents we believe are best positioned to break into the mainstream during 2023/24. Throughout the season, we’ll be detailing all fifty in definitive profiles. The full list can be read here. This profile is on Leny Yoro, who came 17th.