Former Manchester United goalkeeper coach Eric Steele believes Dean Henderson should stay with the club next season.

Steele, who left United in 2013, believes Henderson will return from Sheffield United with his sights firmly focused on becoming the club's first-choice goalkeeper at the expense of David de Gea.

"Knowing Dean Henderson as I do, he will expect to walk into that Old Trafford dressing room and make the No.1 jersey his own, now," he told the I.

"I signed him at 14 and stayed close to him – he has a great attitude.

"David will have known there was always going to be a young pretender to come and challenge him and that is what Dean will do.

"Should contracts permit, United need to say to him [Henderson] 'you are not going out on loan, you are here to compete with David'. He will value the experience at Sheffield United – he is better prepared now to take that challenge on."