MANCHESTER UNITED YET TO FULLY ADDRESS MAJOR TALKING POINTS VITAL TO THE FUTURE OF THE CLUB
How long can Manchester United afford to wait for the strong structure or strong foundation the club is said to be built on to finally yield a result?
For the clarification of all the readers of the article, “structure” in this instance refers to the principals, the training style and the type of football mentality implemented on Manchester United training ground both on the senior level and on the youth level. Manchester United reputation for nurturing footballers from a young age grow into mature talented players has been a policy ran by the football club since before the time of legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson.
With the high level of success Ferguson experienced during his career as Manchester United manager operating primarily with the ideology of promoting young talented players from the Manchester United into the senior team the news of the retired managers recent comments basically calling for of the clubs youth players to be allowed to see more first-team action as soon as possible will not come as a surprise to Manchester United fans and football lovers worldwide.
The idea and reality of Sir Alex Ferguson pushing for more emphasis to be put on training and promoting young talented players will hardly be a surprise to have made the front page of the news. The bigger topic of discussion is have Manchester United truly moved away from promoting young talent and focussed primarily on signing players and if the club has indeed moved away from promoting players, should the policy of signing players instead of promoting players continue?
Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Scott Mctominar and too some degree even Paul Pogba can be found in the list of players who came from the youth rank at Manchester United and flourished as professional footballers and the list does not stop there in fact. Ryan Giggs, Robbie Savage, Darren Fletcher. Quite an impressive resume of players looking at the list with a sharp eye. While some of these players have ended their service to the club, others such as Pogba, Rashford, McTominar, and Lingard still wear the Manchester United jersey and step proudly unto the represent the football club whenever the players are called upon.
Whether the player is academy graduate who played for Manchester United in the past such as Garry Neville or a current academy graduate such as Mason Greenwood, one context that remains that stands true is that the club cannot keep preaching the idea of training these young players to step in when needed in the future when the truth of the matter is that these young talents are needed this current season. The future for Manchester United cannot afford to wait until tomorrow, the future is now especially considering the season Manchester United is having struggling to break into the top four, the time might be right to insert a few promising youth players into the first team to try and find a little extra creativity especially against teams near the bottom of the Premier League table.
Marcus Rashford, Jesse Lingard, Scott Mctominar and too some degree even Paul Pogba can be found in the list of players who came from the youth rank at Manchester United and flourished as professional footballers and the list does not stop there in fact. Ryan Giggs, Robbie Savage, Darren Fletcher. Quite an impressive resume of players looking at the list with a sharp eye. While some of these players have ended their service to the club, others such as Pogba, Rashford, McTominar, and Lingard still wear the Manchester United jersey and step proudly unto the represent the football club whenever the players are called upon. Whether the player is academy graduate who played for Manchester United in the past such as Garry Neville or a current academy graduate such as Mason Greenwood, one context that remains that stands true is that the club cannot keep preaching the idea of training these young players to step in when needed in the future when the truth of the matter is that these young talents are needed this current season.
The recent result away to newly-promoted side Sheffield Wednesday will serve as a typical example of why the topic of integrating academy players ready to perform into the starting lineup more. Manchester United heading into Bramell Lane stadium with a clear depleted team as a result of injuries was an opportunity for Solskjaer to show some faith in his young players and inserted both Mason Greenwood and Brandon Williams into the starting for the young players to show why they both earned a call up into the first team by using their youthful energy to threaten Sheffield Wednesdays defense from the start. Instead, the Manchester United manager decided to play the safety card and use both players as substitutes. Though both Mason Greenwood and Brandon William were exceptional from the bench by each scoring two of Manchester United's three goals of the night, the damage had already been done as Manchester United were only able to gain a point and drop two points on the night. A situation that might have been avoided had Ole Gunner Solskjaer shown more faith in his youngsters.
The future for Manchester United cannot afford to wait until tomorrow, the future is now especially considering the season Manchester United is having struggling to break into the top four, the time might be right to insert a few promising youth players into the first team starting lineup to try and find a little extra creativity especially against teams near the bottom of the Premier League table.
