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Manchester United's dressing room is set for a welcome surprise - Ciaran Kelly

Frank Ocean, ASAP Rocky, Big Sean... Manchester United's dressing room will get a welcome surprise when goalkeeper Lee Grant's pre-match playlist gets its first airing.

Whether it is hip-hop, R&B, old-school garage, dubstep, drum and bass or house, the 35-year-old has his new team-mates covered with a variety of mix tapes that will give dressing room DJ Ashley Young a run for his money.

And the father-of-one may yet teach Paul Pogba and Jesse Lingard a dance move or two.

"He's a great lad to have in the changing room," former Burnley goalkeeper Brian Jensen told MEN Sport.

"The lads really enjoy having him around - he's a real character. He goes in and puts his tunes on, throws a few dance moves. A top professional, too."

Grant has proved a popular figure at a variety of clubs

It is easy to see why Jose Mourinho wants that kind of personality in United's dressing room - and few are more committed to the cause than Grant.

As Stoke fought for survival last season, former manager Paul Lambert remembers how he pushed through the pain barrier for his side with just five games left of the campaign.

"He actually broke a bone in his wrist before we went down to West Ham," he told MEN Sport.

"Our second goalkeeper was not well before the game and Granty said, 'I'll go on the bench'. If anything happened to Jack Butland, he would have played."

Grant had to wait 17 years to fulfil his dream of becoming a Premier League player and now finds himself sharing a dressing room with the world's greatest goalkeeper, David de Gea.

Grant has already made a big impression at Old Trafford

It will not take the pair long to find common ground. Both share a mentor in goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, who played a key role in their development at Derby and United respectively.

"No one is happier than me," the 64-year-old told MEN Sport. "It is a lesson to us all that goalkeepers are late developers. Lee was 33 when he played for Stoke in the Premier League.

"He will have understood he is going in as a three or four-man team and he's proven. Did anyone necessarily expect him to do what he did at Stoke? What a challenge to take it on - he will embrace it."

Grant will have to wait to meet De Gea, who is currently on holiday after his World Cup exploits, but will be introduced to most of his new team-mates at Carrington on Monday.

Grant will have a big role to play even when he's not playing

Helping new signings settle in was a role the veteran relished at Stoke as defender Kevin Wimmer remembers.

"Even when he was not playing he always showed that he was very important," the Austria international told MEN Sport. "When there was a new player he made it easy for them to settle in. He was talking with them from the beginning."

Grant has had his fair share of goalkeeping duels down through the years although nothing will quite compare to battling it out with De Gea and Sergio Romero.

But former Derby boss George Burley remembers how even as a teenager he coped with keeping his place amid stiff competition from the talented Lee Camp.

"Granty's bubbly, enthusiastic, not quiet, with bags of confidence," he told MEN Sport. "You need a strong mentality and belief in yourself to be a top-class goalkeeper."

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Given how little Grant will play, it is tempting to focus on the off the field qualities he will bring to United.

But Mourinho already knows what a talented goalkeeper he is after seeing the veteran make save after save as Stoke earned their first point at Old Trafford in 36 years back in 2016.

And Brian Laws, who worked with the 'well-oiled machine' at Sheffield Wednesday and Burnley, remembers the stopper being one of the most hard working players he ever encountered.

"He's very athletic - he has that gymnast style - and gets to areas that appear almost impossible at times," he told MEN Sport.

"There were a number of games you just thought there is a goal coming and somehow he plucked the ball from the air or got his finger tips to it."

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The last witchcraft trial held in the United States began in Salem on May 14, 1870, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.