\n<\/p>\n
Devaney spent the first quarter of the season in central defence at United before switching to his preferred central midfield slot.<\/p>\n
He even started at full-back at times, which he believes is part of his United education.<\/p>\n
“I see myself as a leader,” he said. “If you put me anywhere on the pitch, I’d like to think I’d go and do a job.<\/p>\n
“Coming into United as an under-nine, you play a bit of everywhere; centre-back, right-back, centre-midfield in my case.<\/p>\n
“It’s the way we are brought up, so we can all play in different positions.”<\/p>\n
Devaney stood out at under-21 level for his calmness in possession, his reading of the game, his ability to spot danger and speed in reacting to it.<\/p>\n
He has had experiences of playing against senior teams in the EFL Trophy and National League Cup.<\/p>\n
However, his St Mirren experience has taken him to another level.<\/p>\n
“The game is so fast paced and there’s a lot of transitions,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Despite the results, the mood in the dressing room has been really good and I have really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
“The loan has benefited me from a playing perspective. I really felt myself growing and putting my authority on the men’s game.”<\/p>\n
Devaney has been growing off the field as well, to the extent he now makes his own meals \u2013 with guidance from his mum back home in Yorkshire \u2013 and has been keeping in touch with Binnion and United’s under-18 coach, Darren Fletcher.<\/p>\n
He is not quite sure what the future holds but hopes to be part of United’s pre-season campaign, when a number of younger players will be needed due to World Cup calls.<\/p>\n
“At the minute, my main focus is on these remaining games and keeping St Mirren in the league, where they should be,” he said.<\/p>\n
“But, if I am thinking ahead, those games in pre-season would definitely be something I would like to take part in.<\/p>\n
“I feel I’m at a stage now where I do want to keep playing men’s football because I feel I’ve proved I can do it.<\/p>\n
“I believe that I can play for Man United. It’s something I’ve worked at from being knee-high, when I first started kicking a ball.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Devaney spent the first quarter of the season in central defence at United before switching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}