It’s surely safe to assume that this teenager has genuine promise when Andres Iniesta and Zinedine Zidane’s accolades are echoing in his ears.

Takefusa Kubo, the most recent winger connected to a Manchester United team that is anticipated to part ways with Jadon Sancho in January, is undoubtedly well on his way to realising his “potential” in Spain. 

The Sun claims that Manchester United has scouted the Japan international seven times already this year.

A proposal of £43 million is anticipated to be sufficient to force Real Sociedad, a player valued at half the amount United paid to sign Antony from Ajax and with arguably double the ability, to bite. Real Sociedad is the November Player of the Month in La Liga.

During their time together at Villarreal, Unai Emery compared Kubo to David Silva. Furthermore, Kubo is beginning to deliver the kind of performances that are evocative of Silva’s at Valencia after sharing a dressing room with the Man City icon at Sociedad the previous term.

Terry Gibson, the former United striker, said of Kubo’s torn Real Madrid limb from limb at the beginning of the season on El Tel and Jon’s La Liga Weekly podcast, “He was superb.”

“Take Kubo has been on (his) level in every game he’s played, as good as Jude Bellingham has been this year.”