Zatara
Player Valuation: £100m
Players - especially young players will not swap a backup role for Man United for a backup role for us mate - just simple logic and hostory has shown that, same for any young player we get from any big side, they will come to us because we promise them more opportunity
As for the young lads being two years away from being able to play - whny are they exactly?
Rashford, Mensah and Jackson - not one signle person thought that they would be playing this year - and 2 of the 3 did very well
Similarly not one person really thought Davies or Kenny would play or be ready this season and when they played they where - anothe roffseason and full pre season with the first team under a new manager and who knows how much they can contribute next season - the same goes for Dowell, Connely, pennington, Galloway, Ledson and several other players, but this is the key thing mate, to have a chance to come through and maybe really kciking on itnot he first team next seaosn each and every one of them players needs to have a team around them that has the experience and if you go out and buy kids over experienced seasonsed pros then you are greatly reducing the chance that any of them will break through,
Barry for example helped with us bringing Barkley into the team, Dsitin and Jags, baines and Coleman all did the same with allowing Stones to come in, look at that class of 92 and how they got into the united squad and they where surrounded by very good experienced pros mate, and eventually some repalced some of those, but fergusomn before anythign else made sure he had that core of experiecne and character and that was what helped to mould the likes of Neveille, scholes, giggs and beckham into the winning characters they became
But you would still have Coleman + Baines as experienced players....as well as others such as Barry,Jagielka etc...plus 2 or 3 more quality players to bring into the spine...they can help to bring through the youth.
Yes its unlikely a utd youth player would swap them for us but they have 3 first teamers ahead of them and now mourinho taking over....borthwick-jackson has stalled on a contract and is now available this summer.
If utd really want lukaku or any other clubs do then we should try and get the pick of their young players who arent first choice yet.