Favourite Academy XI

spenzo

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Tweet above explains it really but I wanted to see the teams you guys have. As it says, your personal favourites that you enjoyed the most, not necessarily the best.

Mine is:
Henderson
Laird
Tuanzebe
Thorpe
Fryers
Rothwell
Gomes
Morrison
Mitchell
Januzaj
Will Keane

Subs:
Mengi (between him and Roshaun)
Fosu-Mensah
Davide Petrucci
Andreas
Pogba
Larnell Cole
James Wilson

Honourable mention to Mainoo and Hansen-Aaroen, two "active" academy players I like.
 
I haven't seen a lot of academy games, but I like to watch our reserves playing occasionally.

Zieler - Riley, Tuanzebe, Evans, Fernandez - Fosu-Mensah, Pogba, Morrison - Amad, Greenwood, Januzaj

Honourable mention to Wilson, Mejbri, Norwood, M. Keane, W. Keane and Angel

- Despite us having a lot of decent GKs, Zieler was the only one I thought had a legit chance to make it at Man Utd.
- I don't remember ever being too excited about any of our full-backs. I might be missing someone though.
- I thought Tuanzebe will be Man Utd captain at some point in his career.
- Amad only played a handful of games for reserves, but in all of them he looked absolutely ridiculous.
 
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Januzaj actually played as a striker (rotating with Lingard) when he first made the step up and did well there linking up play. For that reason, Hannibal should be on the right and Januzaj in the center if you're dead set on not including Greenwood.

Greenwood
Januzaj
Ravel
Gomes
Pogba
Hannibal
O'Connor
Tuanzebe
Thorpe
Laird
Kovar

Obviously now I would take out Greenwood and put in James Wilson, but that was how I felt at the time.
 
Januzaj - Welbeck - Amad
Hannibal - Morrison - Pogba
Mitchell - Tuanzebe - Fosu-Mensah* - Laird
Henderson (I guess)

* shoehorned in​

Honorable mentions: Andreas Pereira, Giuseppe Rossi, Will Keane, James Wilson, a certain unnamed striker who would’ve made a starting XI.

I really, really rooted for Mitchell only to find out at some point that he’s already in his 20’s, it felt like he was a a perennial teenager. He’s 25 now.
 
David Healy would definitely be my striker... Thought for sure he was going to be brilliant.

Does Giuseppe Rossi count as an academy product? He'll go next to him if so.
 
In Rainbows said:
Januzaj actually played as a striker (rotating with Lingard) when he first made the step up and did well there linking up play. For that reason, Hannibal should be on the right and Januzaj in the center if you're dead set on not including Greenwood.

Greenwood
Januzaj
Ravel
Gomes
Pogba
Hannibal
O'Connor
Tuanzebe
Thorpe
Laird
Kovar

Obviously now I would take out Greenwood and put in James Wilson, but that was how I felt at the time.
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Completely forgot about O'Connor! I would definitely shoehorn him into my team at left back over Fryers. Feel the same about Greenwood too, realistically should've put him in mine to be honest.
 
Kovar
Varela ?? ?? Fernandez
Galbraith ??
Lawrence Januzaj Harrop
W.Keane
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I'll have to come back to the three question marks
 
Began watching the academy in 17/18 season
Gk - Kovar
Rb - Laird
Cb - Bernard
Cb - Mengi
Lb - B.Williams
Cm - Garner
Cm - Levitt
Cm - Hannibal
Rw - Garnacho
St - He who shall not be named
Lw - Elanga

Honourable mentions -
Shoretire
O’Connor
R.S.Williams
Fernandez
Mainoo
McNeill
Galbraith
Hansen-Aaroen
Puigmal
 
My favourites

GK: Luke Steele
RB: John Curtis
CB: Alan Tate
CB: Gerard Pique
LB: Danny Pugh
CM: David Jones
CM: Paul Pogba
AM: Mads Timm
AM: Ravel Morrison
SS: Paul Scholes
CF: Mason Greenwood

Honorable mentions: J. Wilson, Rossi, Welbeck, R. Jones, P. Neville

Last couple of years: Hannibal, Fernandez, Mainoo, Ennis
 
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