Adnan Januzaj nominated for European Golden Boy award

Manchester United starlet Adnan Januzaj has been nominated for the prestigious European Golden Boy award. A trophy that is given to Europe’s most exciting young player on a yearly basis, and has previously been won by the likes of England striker Wayne Rooney and Real Madrid’s Isco.

Its excellent to see that Adnan Januzaj has been regarded as one of the hottest properties in European football after making such an impact in the handful of games he has played for Manchester United, and hopefully he’ll continue to develop under David Moyes.

There are some extremely talented players up for this years Golden Boy award, including Raphael Varane, Julian Draxler and Paul Pogba. I don’t think Januzaj will win the award this time, but he’ll have at least a couple more chances to do so in the future.

FULL SHORTLIST

Raphael Varane (Real Madrid)

Jesé (Real Madrid)

Richmond Boakye (Elche)

Bruma (Galtasaray)

Emre Can (Bayer Leverkusen)

Sebastian Cristóforo (Sevilla)

Lucas Digne (PSG)

Julian Draxler (Schalke 04)

Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (Monaco)

Viktor Fischer (Ajax)

Fred (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Serge Gnabry (Arsenal)

Mauro Icardi (Inter)

Juan Iturbe (Verona)

Adnan Januzaj (Manchester United)

Geoffrey Kondogbia (Monaco)

Mateo Kovacic (Inter)

Diego Laxalt (Bologna)

Nicolas López (Udinese)

Romelu Lukaku (Everton)

Adam Maher (PSV Eindhoven)

Lazar Markovic (Benfica)

Marquinhos (PSG)

Aleksandar Mitrovic (Anderlecht)

Matija Nastasic (Manchester City)

M’Baye Niang (Milán)

Kenneth Omeruo (Chelsea)

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal)

Brayan Perea (Lazio)

Paul Pogba (Juventus)

Juan Quintero (Porto)

Josip Radosevic (Nápoli)

Rafinha (Celta)

Ante Rebic (Fiorentina)

Yaya Sanogo (Arsenal)

Florian Thauvin (Olympique de Marsella)

Tiago Ilori (Liverpool)

Óliver Torres (Atlético)

Tonny Vilhena (Feyenoord)

Vitinho (CSKA)