Tom Cleverley is a 21 year old from Yorkshire who has been at united since 2005 moving from the Bradford Youth Academy. He moved steadily through the ranks and within a few years, after having captained the reserves and helping them win the league and cup double, it was clear that he had outgrown reserve [...]
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Ravel Morrison is a 17 year old local lad from Longsight in Manchester, the same area that Wes Brown and Danny Wellbeck hail from. He has been at United for a few years now and is known in some circles as the worst kept secret in Football! He became well known due to a couple [...]
Paul Pogba is a 17 year old from France of Guinean descent who has just started his second year with Manchester United after completing a much publicised move in October 2009. Pogba came from the French club Le Harve, after being chased by some of the top teams in Europe, who then accused United of [...]
Magnus Eikrem is a 20 year old from Norway who is now in his 5th season at Manchester United. Like Joshua King he was first spotted playing in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s soccer school. Magnus has moved up the ranks easily at United from Academy to Reserves and is now the Reserves captain. He has been [...]
Joshua King is an 18 year old forward from Norway off Gambian descent who was first spotted playing in Ole Gunnars’ Norweigan soccer school in 2007. He will be a full 3 years at United this January and has played for both the Academy and the Reserves. He has featured once for the first team [...]
Robbie Brady is an 18 year lad from Dublin who came to United via the well regarded Dublin Schoolboy team St Kevins Boys who is now in his third year with the club. The story goes that a host of Premier League clubs were after his signature and that Liverpool had treated him to a [...]
Over the next seven weeks we will be taking a look at some of the potential stars of the future at Manchester United. The players under review are all either playing currently with the academy, the reserves or out on loan in the lower leagues. Although the likes of Bebe, Smalling, Macheda and Wellbeck are [...]
