[ad_pod ]Last season Marcelo Bielsa’s Leeds United dominated so much of what little interest the media holds in the Championship and what was left over seemed to be exclusively reserved for an over-achieving Sheffield United side who eventually secured automatic promotion.This is a shame because that meant the Canaries of Norwich City criminally flew under the radar and this despite coach Daniel Farke putting together a title-winning young squad full of technically gifted talent and all while on a shoestring budget. They deserved infinitely more headlines. Their achievement unquestionably deserved greater recognition.This oversight can be extended to the players too and none more so than their 19-year-old right-back Max Aarons whose emergence in his first full season as a professional was little short of a revelation. Last August the Hammersmith-born defender was an academy prospect whose name was barely known beyond Norfolk.Ten months and 41 league games later his consistently elite performances saw him included in the Championship Team of the Season while beating out the likes of Harry Wilson to win the EFL Young Player of the Season award.It’s worth remembering that Aarons is a full-back, traditionally not a role that stands out, but that would be discounting his athletic displays down Norwich’s right with equal impact across the halfway line as part of Farke’s back-line. As per Sky Sports only two defenders attempted more dribbles than the youngster in the Championship last term while his six assists is a figure some out-and-out wingers would be happy with. Last September his swift rise was topped off with a call-up to the England Under 19s set-up.Watch Norwich City Live Streams With StreamFootball.tv Below

In fairness there have been murmurings of Aarons gaining the attention of major clubs throughout the season, such as Tottenham’s interest in March. But the spotlight is truly starting to shine amid reports claiming Manchester United are keen to sign the brilliant teen as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer begins his summer overhaul of a mismatched, inherited squad with a remit of bringing in British, promising young players. Aarons certainly fits the bill here as he does too with the clear need to bring back an offensive style of play to Old Trafford after the laborious football of Jose Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

So far then, so straightforward, except of course Aarons is not the only right-back that United are actively seeking to recruit this window. Their prolonged chase for Crystal Palace’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka continues at a pace and at the time of writing it appears that they are finally on the brink of getting their man and all for a fee that would be a world record sum for a full-back.

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With a figure of £15m being mooted for the Norwich star Aarons would be a far cheaper proposition and that is pertinent if the rumour is to be believed that United only have £100m available to spend prior to funds raised from player sales. Furthermore, there is an argument to be made that the younger of the two would be a more suitable addition to Solskjaer’s grand project.

This incidentally is no reflection on Wan-Bissaka. As stated in these very pages recently the 21-year-old has been phenomenal this past year – he finished the season with the third-highest tackle average of any Premier League player and has become almost impossible to get past for opposing wingers.

That defensive steel though is not who United need going forward, if such a pun can be excused. With Antonio Valencia now moved on and Ashley Young ever-more ineffectual, Solskjaer’s intention to replicate the flying full-backs acting as auxiliary wingers from Sir Alex Ferguson’s golden era has Aarons as the perfect candidate at the fraction of the cost of Wan-Bissaka

It’s time that was recognised.