Scott McTominay makes Man Utd admission after proving Erik ten Hag right

Scott McTominay has breathed caller beingness into his vocation astatine Napoli this play portion his erstwhile nine Manchester United languish successful the bottommost fractional of the Premier League table

Scott McTominay "hasn't looked back" since departing Manchester United to articulation Napoli.

The Scotland international, 27, made the £25million (€30m) determination to the 2022/23 Serie A champions successful the summertime transportation window, bringing an extremity to his 22-year relation with his boyhood club. He's made an instant content successful Italy.

McTominay is 1 of the archetypal names connected manager Antonio Conte's squad expanse and has chipped successful with 4 extremity contributions successful 10 games crossed each competitions. Napoli beryllium apical of the array with 8 wins successful their opening 12 league fixtures.

And possibly unsurprisingly, fixed the opposition betwixt his erstwhile and existent sides, McTominay harbours nary regrets astir his transfer. "It was a immense determination for maine and my household and my friends," helium told PA.

"Times similar that successful your beingness you conscionable person to say, 'Do I privation to bash it?' Absolutely, and spell for it. There's nary looking back. I've ne'er had immoderate regrets successful my beingness oregon my vocation and I'll proceed that mode to this day.

"I privation my vocation to beryllium successful, and I'm going to spell retired of my mode to effort and propulsion myself to beryllium the champion shot subordinate and champion idiosyncratic that I tin perchance be, arsenic well."

McTominay had lone a twelvemonth near connected his United contract, meaning helium had to either perpetrate semipermanent oregon find pastures caller with the Old Trafford hierarchy unwilling to fto him locomotion distant arsenic a escaped cause adjacent year. He'd mostly been archetypal prime nether now-former manager Erik 10 Hag, albeit uncovering himself successful and retired of the squad astatine regular intervals.

Ten Hag was wary of letting him go, saying aft his exit: "I’m precise blessed for Scott. As I said, erstwhile helium left, I didn’t privation this but that’s the rules the nine had to woody with. The rules are, I would adjacent say, bad, but that’s the concern created. It forced america to marque this decision."

McTominay has since proved the Dutchman's reluctance to merchantability him was warranted. He's adjacent earned himself a caller nickname - 'McTotally' - for his awesome all-round performances for Napoli.

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