Marcus Rashford profited from my Man United heartache - I knew I had to leave
Will Keane will come up against his former team-mate in the FA Cup quarter finals today as Preston North End welcome Aston Villa to Deepdale
'Football is all about timing'
Will Keane is at ease with the sliding doors moment that could have catapulted his Manchester United career.
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Article continues belowNine years ago last month, Keane was recalled from a loan spell at Preston North End and thrust into Louis van Gaal's United squad.
He was on the bench for an FA Cup win over Sheffield United before featuring off the bench for a Premier League debut at Sunderland.
Four and a half years after his United debut as a promising 18-year-old, Keane was now getting first team recognition. He was on the bench for a 2-1 Europa League defeat to Midtjylland and, ahead of the second leg with the Danes, came off the bench in the FA Cup at Shrewsbury.
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With almost the final kick of the game, Keane took a shot and tore his groin. His chance of featuring three days later in Europe were gone.
Instead Marcus Rashford was thrust into the team. He scored twice and launched himself as a superstar, netting a double on his first Premier League start days later in a thrilling 3-2 win over Arsenal.
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Almost a decade has passed since that fateful week and Keane and Rashford will be reunited on Sunday afternoon in the FA Cup, albeit on opposing sides. Keane, now 32, is back at Preston and part of the last Championship club standing as they take on Aston Villa, where Rashford is on loan amid a seemingly bleak future at the club that once adored him.
"Hopefully he'll have an off day," jokes Keane of his old pal. "I've not seen Marcus for a couple of years so it will be great to see him.
"It's been great the last couple of months to see him back playing and with a smile on his face. It really looks like he is enjoying his football."
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Keane is too. His United career might not have blossomed the way he hoped, particularly after he spearheaded the 2011 FA Youth Cup win with a hat trick against Chelsea in the semi-final and three across two legs against Sheffield United in the final. That team also featured Keane's twin brother Michael, Ravel Morrison, Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard. Only the latter didn't feature for United's first team the following season.
But injury stopped Keane, who won the Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year award at United in 2010, in his tracks. And after four loan moves he left Old Trafford permanently a few months after Rashford's debut.
"It fell into place for Marcus and he took his opportunity when it came," muses Keane, speaking to the Manchester Evening News at North End's training ground, a hive of activity as the club prepare for their first FA Cup quarter final in more than 60 years.
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"I am sure it was only a matter of time as to when that was going to come for Marcus anyway, maybe a bit sooner than what he expected but he definitely made the most of it when he burst onto the scene.
"I'd been involved a couple of times but then suffered an injury which I knew would limit by chances and the age I was at (23), when I got back fit I knew it was time to move on."
That wasn't easy to accept for someone who had been touted as a player of first team potential and was desperate to make the grade at his boyhood club.
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"When you grow up coming through the academy as United fan you always want o keep hold of that dream of making it there," he adds. "And before a couple of long term injuries, I could see that and the potential to do that, but it didn't quite pan out."
Keane went on United's pre-season tour to China in 2016, sitting alongside Rashford on the bench for a defeat to Borussia Dortmund.
Article continues belowThey will share a pitch on Sunday. Keane will hope footballer's script writers conjure up a fairytale in his favour.
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