Christian Eriksen is reportedly on the verge of joining Manchester United on a free after his short-term contract at Brentford expired – but he won’t be the first player from Denmark to pull on the famous red shirt.
Five Danes have previously lined up for the first team at Old Trafford. Some of them have been great, others less so.
We’ve taken a look back at each of them and how they fared during their time in Manchester and beyond.
Anders Lindegaard
After a couple of strong seasons in the Norweigian top tier for Aalesund, United swept in and signed Lindegaard in November 2010 as back-up to Edwin van der Sar.
Van der Sar then left in the summer of 2011, but with the signing of David de Gea, Lindegaard remained the second-choice ‘keeper.
He did manage 18 Premier League appearances across the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons, however, as De Gea initially struggled to settle in England. And in the latter of those two campaigns, Lindegaard earned himself a Premier League winner’s medal and even started in Sir Alex Ferguson’s last game as United boss.
He eventually left in 2015 and has spent time at West Brom, Preston, Burnley and Helsingborg.
A useful squad player while he was at Old Trafford, but not the best goalkeeper on this list – not by a long chalk.
Mads Timm
After coming through the ranks at hometown club Odense, Timm moved to United to play for their youth teams in 2000, eventually making his first-team debut in a Champions League game against Maccabi Haifa in October 2002.
That, though, would prove to be his only outing in a United shirt.
After a couple of loan moves, Timm was sentenced to 12 months in a young offenders institute for his part in a car crash that caused serious injury to his fellow youth teamer Phil Marsh.
Timm was allowed to remain at United, but his career drifted from there and he retired in 2009 before coming back to lower league Danish football in 2011, according to his Wikipedia page.
Marsh, for his part, played just once for United after the crash, but he did become a non-league hero, which he told us all about in April 2022…
READ: Phil Marsh: ‘Fergie was class after car crash derailed my Man Utd career’
Peter Schmeichel
Ah, yeah. The best goalkeeper on this list.
Five Premier League titles, three FA Cups and a League Cup. Oh, and the Champions League crown and one delightful cartwheel in the last of his 398 United appearances. We don’t really need to say any more, do we?
It doesn’t matter how old…
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