Looking at Will Keane's latest Instagram post looks like he would still be here on pre-season.
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That would be a surprise if it happens although I do hope he does stay. Right now you could argue there's space for him but when/if another striker comes then I just wouldn't see the point of him staying, even though he's still good enough to make it in my opinion.
My interview with Kacper Chorazka, 17-year-old Polish goalkeeper from Wisla Krakow (Poland) who was on a trial at United.
http://manutd.pl/aktualnosci/27683/wywiad-manutdpl-kacper-chorazka-po-testach-w-manchesterze/
Cheers, good stuff!
Would be unfair to get rid of him immediately after the injury so he might be given the last chance on pre-season and that's it.
With Jose reportedly looking to bring in a new striker, and with Rashfors's emergence.. His chances of making it at United are getting slimme. Mayne if Rooney is serious about dropping into the midfield full time then he has a shot at being the 4th striker in the squad.
Not sure if posted already.
United U11s is playing in the Murapol Cup in Poland.This was the stream: (there'll be another later when they played Dynamo Kiev in the quarter final)
Our number 10 Kobbie Mainoo won Player of the Tournament.
Wow. That's a fantastic achievement. Some top teams I'm looking at.
How old is he? Looked physically advanced to the rest.
11.All of our team are born in 2005 I think but 7 of them are U10s (born in Sep 2005 or after).
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His name won the Coolest Named Player of the tournament too.
Who was the number 3 in the bvb game? He looked good as well. It also seems like we have some good attacking talents coming thru. I heard that Shola and Iqbal are good as well?
Number 3 is called Hamzai Balogun.Shola and Iqbal are one year and two years older than this group, respectively.Shola is very highly rated, he played two years above his age group in a tournament in Italy last month.Iqbal is very good technically but a bit weak.
You can see both of them on this video: (Iqbal number 10,Shola number 7)
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Really do love that pass from Iqbal at 14:15, surprises me every time I see it. Really excited about him, he looks like a potential star.
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Not bothered about that at all.
Yeah just trying to say that expecting him to be a quite late developer compared to some of other rated names in the academy.Same with Haygarth to a lesser extent probably.
I was going to ask you about him. With all the buzz around Greenwood in that age group I was wondering what happened to him. Good to hear he is still well thought of. He looked very good at the milk cup.
That is a lovely interview mate.My interview with Kacper Chorazka, 17-year-old Polish goalkeeper from Wisla Krakow (Poland) who was on a trial at United.
http://manutd.pl/aktualnosci/27683/wywiad-manutdpl-kacper-chorazka-po-testach-w-manchesterze/
I'm not sure what happened at Marveld this year but he only started the last game where he scored 2 whereby the likes of Elanga,Mambuene,Smethurst,Peplow who are all 2002 born like him played almost every game (Greenwood didn't start the last 3-4 games for some reasons).Don't know why but we always look a bit of a mess in that competition.
Those 4 the highest rated from that age group other than greenwood? Mambuene and elanga look good. Where's Galbraith, group above?
Was really disappointed seeing the result at Marveld this year. I expected much more from this group.
Yeah not sure about Peplow but it seems to be a quite strong group, heard good things about some other players as well such as Djalo,Max Thompson,...Galbraith is one year older (U15s) same age group with Levitt,Laird,Garner,etc...
Wicked, sounds like we've got some good talent coming thru. Are most of those boys local? Cos I know butt said he wanted to improve recruitment at u18 and below. Has anything changed in that regard?
Originally Greenwood is from Bradford, Elanga is Swedish, Levitt is Welsh. I assume all the others are at least within the FA travel time limits that clubs have to obey for pre scholars on their books (1.5 hours to Carrington I think Khoazany?).
Look like we're winning back the Irish market after City had their hands on most of the best Irish talents in the last few years.Seems there has been some improvements on the quality of the Irish/NI lads coming through which might benefit us.
For those lads mentioned above only Elanga,Djalo came in 2014 I believe (both foreigners but probably had their family moved to England) and Gaibraith last year.The rest has been with us since a very young age.Good that I haven't heard much about any lad taken by City this year though, except for some U7s.
At least that stream of poaching has been stopped seemingly. What you say about the Irish market makes sense, does it coincide with our Irish scout passing away? What about recruitment for 16/17 intake at u18? Is there any updates on that?
Thanks for that. Looks like we're getting them from different areas which is good. Is levitt not English born and just plays for Wales then?
Well lads, I'm new on here but have been following for a long time. Just wondering if anyone could give me an update on some of the following issues that I'm sure some of the youth academy advocates down in the newbie forums have been wanting to find out from those in the know (apologies if these have been already answered):
1) Someone who has links with the club a while a go mentioned that Josh Doughty was being kept on at the club as a player in his position was expected to leave for a new club soon. Was this player Gribbin? I read that Tyrell Warren is leaving recently but obviously isn't a winger/striker.
2) Any confirmation yet of the signing of the Irish lad O'Connor and Burkhart? O'Connor is considered a pretty big talent here and has gone under the radar a bit here with news of Chong's signing (illustrious stuff for the academy!) If anyone could give a mention of any of the other players who will be joining us at u18 level next year that would be fantastic.
3) Does anyone with links to the academy (be they parents or fans) know how the new coaches and staff in the academy are getting on so far? Has there been much of a shake up to the way things are done, noticeable difference in training method, increased recruitment, improved facilities etc..
1) Someone who has links with the club a while a go mentioned that Josh Doughty was being kept on at the club as a player in his position was expected to leave for a new club soon. Was this player Gribbin? I read that Tyrell Warren is leaving recently but obviously isn't a winger/striker.
2) Any confirmation yet of the signing of the Irish lad O'Connor and Burkhart? O'Connor is considered a pretty big talent here and has gone under the radar a bit here with news of Chong's signing (illustrious stuff for the academy!) If anyone could give a mention of any of the other players who will be joining us at u18 level next year that would be fantastic.
3) Does anyone with links to the academy (be they parents or fans) know how the new coaches and staff in the academy are getting on so far? Has there been much of a shake up to the way things are done, noticeable difference in training method, increased recruitment, improved facilities etc..
1. I said that I heard Doughty was being kept on but it wasn't linked to another player in his position leaving. I did say 1 of the u18s would be leaving but haven't heard anything about it since and no it's not Gribbin or Warren that I was talking about.
2. There won't be any official club confirmation until July at the earliest but Burkart and O'Connor will both be signing and have confirmed the deals themselves.
3. All I can talk about is the recruitment side since the other things haven't really come into play yet because the underage players aren't back in training until the end of this month/start of July. Recruitment at the underage level this summer will be higher than other years with a number of deals agreed at u16 level and below
Levitt is from Flint.Been at United since 7 though.
About Doughty we technically have no player in his "position" now (maybe Mitchell if you exclude players that have been out on loan or with the first team).He just couldn't get into the team due to whatever reasons which didn't bode well for him.If he doesn't really push on next season I don't see how he can compete with the shedloads of attacking players in the U18s coming through.
R.e Warren and Gribbin I don't think there's any chance that they will leave the club anytime soon.Gribbin is on a 1+3 pro deal (same with Williams/Dearnley) and Warren has been involved on numerous occasions with the U21s this season despite him only a first year scholar, he's on an exact same path as Tuanzebe was last season, even slightly ahead.There are reasons that their age group (Williams,Gribbin,Warren,Dearnley,...) were considered the best age group to come through the academy in recent time since their young age.I think there will be more players out on loan this season (since Jose isn't the one who prefer to keep everyone around like LVG) so for example if Harrop,Rothwell,Weir all out on loan or leave I don't see how we are not going to promote Gribbin to the U21s unless he really piss Joyce off on training.
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Has this recruitment drive already started? Is it a case of "poaching" players or more paying fees for them I.e Ampadu. I also wonder about the knock on effect this drive would have for the boys in the system currently, could we see numbers reduced to improve the pool, like Liverpool did?
So will our U-18's be playing in the Football League trophy from the coming season? I just read a Guardian article mentioning that 16 Class A academies will be participating in the tournament?
Great news for the younger players as they get a chance to play against professional teams but I hope it's the U-21's rather than the U-18's playing though
Great news for the younger players as they get a chance to play against professional teams but I hope it's the U-21's rather than the U-18's playing though
It'll be the u21s or well u23s as it is being changed to.
Oh good.. because the article academies and I was worried about that for a bit
He's been over on trial 3 times but we didn't offer him a deal or anything since he's still only 15. City offering a deal for him to join in 2 years time but nothing to say he'll develop over those 2 years or if they'll even be able to get him a work permit at 18
Was he highly rated at all? From what I read, he made it seem as if he was signing immediately? Which just seemed impossible.
He did well in the u15 South American Championships earlier this year and seems to be fairly highly rated. I suppose he can sign a pre-contract like Fabio and Rafael did with us and Traore did with Chelsea but wouldn't be able to play until 18