Ethan Laird

Ethan Benjamin Laird (born 5 August 2001) is an English footballer who plays as a defender for EFL Championship club Swansea City, on loan from Premier League club Manchester United.

Club Career

Manchester United

Laird joined Manchester United in July 2017 and was a regular in the under-18s side in his first season, even making his reserve team debut in a match against Swansea City on 18 March 2018. He signed his first professional contract with the club in October 2018, but less than two months later he suffered a long-term injury in a UEFA Youth League match at home to Young Boys, and made just two more appearances in 2018–19.

Laird graduated to the reserve team for the 2019–20 season, and scored in the team's opening match of their EFL Trophy campaign away to Rotherham United on 6 August 2019; however, he suffered another injury in a game against Reading on 16 August and was ruled out for two months. After returning to action, he was included in the 20-man travelling party for the first team's UEFA Europa League match away to Partizan on 24 October, but was not named in the 18-man squad for the match. After United qualified for the Europa League knockout phase, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjar took a squad mostly made up of youth team players to Kazakhstan for their away game against Astana on 28 November, and named Laird as one of three players to make their senior debuts in the match, along with Di'Shon Bernard and Dylan Levitt; the match finished as a 2–1 defeat.

Loan to Milton Keynes Dons

On 8 January 2021, Laird joined League One side Milton Keynes Dons on loan until the end of the 2020–2021 season. He made his professional league debut for the club on 16 January 2021 in a 3–0 defeat away to Peterborough United.

Loan to Swansea City

On 16 August 2021, Laird joined EFL Championship club Swansea City on loan for the duration of the 2021–22 season, reuniting with former MK Dons manager Russell Martin.

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