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<\/p>\nTwo late goals from Scott McTominay ensured Man United beat Brentford 2-1 in their Premier League clash <\/p>\n
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Erik ten Hag admitted Manchester United would have sold Scott McTominay if they had got the right offer in the summer.<\/p>\n
The midfielder came off the bench to score two injury-time goals against Brentford and spare United a third consecutive defeat at Old Trafford, which would have been their worst run since 1963.<\/p>\n
West Ham made a \u00a330m bid for the Scotland international but United were holding out for \u00a340m and McTominay stayed at Old Trafford. <\/p>\n
And Ten Hag said: \u201cEvery player has a price but he has a big value, sporting and also economic. I want to have a player like Scott McTominay in the squad. He is Manchester United in every faith. Every minute he will fight for the match. He is Manchester United in everything in his heart. When you are coming on and giving this to the team it tells a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
McTominay added: \u201cThat might be one of my favourite moments on a football pitch. Two goals at the death was incredible. It’s hard to put into words because I’ve been at Manchester United my whole life, since I was five years old, for me this football club means everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Scott McTominay scores the matchwinner against Brentford having come on as a late substitute<\/p>\n
He revealed he did not know what Ten Hag\u2019s instructions were when he was sent on after 87 minutes and with United trailing to Mathias Jensen\u2019s first-half goal.<\/p>\n
He explained: “It was very loud, the fans were roaring us on so I couldn’t hear fully. He probably said something like: ‘Go on and score,’ which is what I did.”<\/p>\n
Ten Hag joked that his actual words to McTominay were: \u201cI said, \u2018score two goals.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
McTominay added that he was galvanised by watching a show about David Beckham and proud to score in \u2018Fergie Time\u2019, as Sir Alex Ferguson\u2019s teams often used to.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI was watching David Beckham’s documentary last night and it’s things like that that inspire, there’s a real culture about Man United and what it means to the fans and the people who work here. That’s who we do it for and that’s who it means the most to.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe [Sir Alex] was always looking at his watch like that. It just shows today you can score a last-minute winner, it’s\u00a0brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n