Summer signing Aaron Wan-Bissaka has been one of the positives for Manchester United in the first month of the season and he has caught the eye of a former Old Trafford full-back.
The £45million addition from Crystal Palace is on the three-man shortlist for United's player of the month award for August, along with fellow new boys Harry Maguire and Daniel James.
Wan-Bissaka has been outstanding defensively at right-back and it's his work in a back four that has most impressed Denis Irwin, who made more than 500 appearances for United at full-back.
"I saw him play for Palace quite a bit last year, and he only played for the Palace first team for 15 months," Irwin told United's official website.
"He spent [his younger] years as a right winger, so what surprises me is how good he is defensively. Not just the tackling, because we saw that last year and in the first four games of this season, but the positions he takes up are very good."
"You always worry about a winger when they transform into a full-back, it can take them a while to get used to that. He seems really good at that. Obviously he's a young lad and has a lot to learn yet, but he's been a real plus," he said.
"Last year we conceded 54 goals in 38 games. That's not really Manchester United, we've always been good defensively. We need to strengthen, which we have done, and we need to keep more clean sheets."
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I said that AWB is a better different option because he's better on the defensive side while still being capable going forward.. you seem to be disagreeing that he doesn't work as a different option and should play all the time but all you've done is say he's better because of how good he is at attacking and every point you make comes back around to him going forward. The entire point of my comment was that when you want an attacking RB use TAA and when you need a more defensive one use AWB. The way he has talked, the way Liverpool play.. absolutely nothing suggests he's going to become better defensively rhan AWB just because he's younger.nrhe entire focus of him and Liverpool is on the attacking side of things.