What Could The Future Hold For Matty Young?
With the young goalkeeper apparently set to sign a new deal, where could his career path eventually take him?
Salford City goalkeeper Matty Young during the Sky Bet League Two match at the Peninsula Stadium, Salford. Picture date: Saturday August 2, 2025. (Photo by Cody Froggatt/PA Images via Getty Images) | PA Images via Getty Images Gav says… I’ve always been pretty interested in Young’s progress as a young player from afar, but that interest was piqued recently when Salford City released a mini-documentary about him on their YouTube channel, which really spotlighted him as one of the most important players at the club during what’s been a hugely successful season.
They showed various people around the club talking about how exciting he is, including their co-owner Gary Neville, who was longing for a promotion so they might stand a chance of keeping him there again next season! I knew he was good, but often, the litmus test with promising youngsters is how they do when they head out on loan, so to hear things like “We’ve got the best goalkeeper in League Two” is comforting, especially when you remember that he’s only nineteen years old. There are always going to be higher-placed clubs sniffing around your best young players and I’d imagine that, given how well he’s done out on loan over the last couple of seasons, Matty has been no different — therefore, it’s essential that the club not only rewards him with his fine progress as a senior player by paying him a wage that merits his development, but also gives him a deal that’s a suitable length and shows that we’re committed to standing by him as he gets better and better each year.
One thing that worries me about our progress in the Premier League is whether or not we’ll see a reduction in opportunities for young players in the first team picture, but the sad fact is that to get proper chances at that level, you have to be good enough. The best way to do that is to go out on loan and do well, which is something that not enough of our best young players have done in recent times, so really, he’s setting the standard for others to follow. His path reminds me of the one that Jordan Pickford took at a similar age.
He went all over to play games and, by the time he eventually got into Sunderland’s first team, he’d already racked up well over one hundred senior games, playing all the way from the Conference, League Two, League One and then the Championship. This ensured that once he was needed in the first team, he was ready to go — and we can only hope that the same will be true of Matty. Frankly, if he carries on progressing like he is, it won’t be too long before he’s playing for Sunderland in the Premier League.
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