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Originally Posted by Man like Monkey
Who was the last top notch youth player from the academy? Brown/Fletcher?
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maybe Tom Heaton or Danny Drinkwater, depending on how you rate them.
there just has not been much since the late 2000s and when we do have them we have absolutely no faith in them. See Welbeck, Januzaj, Michael Keane, etc. would absolutely love to have Keane on the team at the moment considering out fitness problems.
we're seeing the same thing atm with Timothy Fosu-Mensah. great Dutch centre mid who can play full back just as well but barely gets any time with the first team despite the schedule congestion and lack of passion displayed by a lot of our guys. the only players who came from the youth squad who are still playing with the first team is Lingard and Rashford, and they're far from stand-out talent as far as I'm concerned.