Dermot Mee

Mee has developed a genuinely sharp shot-stopping technique across years inside United's academy system, working daily on the reflexes and positioning a senior goalkeeper needs under real pressure. Loan spells at senior non-league clubs gave him experience against physical, direct strikers rather than the more patient academy football he grew up playing. That grounding matters, because senior football tests a young goalkeeper's composure in ways academy matches cannot replicate.

The honest tension is that shot-stopping ability alone does not guarantee a path to first-team football at a club with this much competition for the goalkeeper shirt. He has trained with the senior squad and appeared on matchday benches without yet getting a competitive appearance, exactly the gap between promise and opportunity academy goalkeepers usually face. Watch whether he gets a loan at a higher level next, because that step usually decides whether his early promise turns into a career.