MANCHESTER UNITED have tied down highly-rated winger Largie Ramazani to his first professional contract.
Ramazani was snapped up by United last summer after he was spotted playing with the Charlton academy.
The winger impressed Old Trafford scouts enough to be awarded a scholarship with the Premier League club.
And since then the Belgium under-17 international has gone on to make a big mark at youth team level with the club.
And just a month after turning 17, Ramazani has signed his first professional contract as United moved quickly to tie him down to a long term deal.
Ramazani was born in Burundi, although he spent time as a youngster living in Belgium where he was part of the Anderlecht set-up.
After his family moved to the UK he was soon spotted by Charlton and brought into their successful schoolboy system.
Several players have been nurtured by the South London club who have gone on to make moves to Premier League sides in recent years.
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They were responsible for the development of Joe Gomez before Liverpool swooped to sign him, and he has since gone on to be part of England’s World Cup plans.
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Ademola Lookman is another who was cherry picked from the Charlton academy, with the winger currently on loan with RB Leipzig from Everton.
United are hopeful Ramazani will continue on a similar course of development, and are looking for him to make the step-up to the development side over the next 12 months.
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