Angel Gomes wants to start scoring and creating goals for Manchester United and says he won't just be content with getting game time.
The 19-year-old playmaker is expected to feature for United in tonight's Carabao Cup tie against Rochdale, having impressed in Europa League action against Astana last week on his full Reds' debut.
He also played his first Premier League minutes of the season in the 2-0 defeat to West Ham and admitted that, although it's a dream come true to be playing for United, he wants to establish himself by producing for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side.
“It’s something I have worked for my whole life,” Gomes told MUTV .
“I really don’t want to just see myself as a young player coming up now. I want to impose myself and impose what I can do, and not just show the fans but show the club what I am here for really.
“It’s exciting times. Obviously, I grew up here, all my life, and just being here is amazing for me really. Being in the first team is something I’ve worked for and I’m slowly realising it."
Its has been a tough start to the campaign for United, who have won just two of their six Premier League games.
And Gomes, despite being on the fringes of the squad, restated that hunger to compete to win trophies that was also a theme of executive vice chairman's recent statement in the to investors.
“Growing up at United, winning trophies is all the club knows really,” Gomes added. “We’ll try to emulate that and get as far down the line as possible in the competition.
“We’ve got to set standards and have the winning mentality. The higher standards we set, the harder we can work towards trying to achieve them.
”I thought I did okay (against Astana). I tried to get into pockets and tried to go forward, when I could, to create chances. A personal aim is to create a few more chances and get a goal for myself or make a decisive pass that leads to a goal.
“It comes with confidence, and having more game time and, obviously, more opportunities to show yourself, so it’s something you can expect from the coming games.”
Gomes and fellow academy products Mason Greenwood and Tahith Chong — who all started against Astana — are again expected to start tonight's clash with Rochdale. Gomes and Greenwood know each other well from their academy days.
“I’ve played with Mason from the Under-9s really so it was great to see him score as well,” Gomes revealed.
“And it was obviously great to play with Chongy as well because I’ve played with him from the start of the Under-18s. We all have that understanding and hunger to try and score."
