MANCHESTER UNITED and Manchester City are set to go to war again over English football’s top youth scouts.
Despite the finest tradition in this country of bringing through young players, City have leapfrogged United in the pecking order by identifying and nurturing the best young talent.
City’s stunning new £200million Etihad Campus, just across the road from the first-team stadium, is now regarded as the finest in the world and has acted as a beacon for the youngsters in the area.
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And while United have blooded Marcus Rashford in recent months, with the likes of Timothy Fosu-Mensah also featuring, with Adnan Januzaj out on loan, there are fears that the group of players behind them just are not good enough.
Paul Pogba came through the United academy before leaving for Juventus and returning to United for a world record fee – and his fellow youth team star Jesse Lingard is currently in the first team.
One exception to that is young midfielder Angel Gomes, who is impressing for England Under-17s and United alike.
So the Red Devils have launched a calculated raid on four of City’s top youth scouts, in a bid to get the club to re-energise it’s famed academy.
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The club has produced the likees or Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul Scholes and the Neville Brothers – with the likes of Bobby Charlton, George Best and Duncan Edwards being nurtured a generation before.
According to the Mirror, United have launched an investigation as to why the club have failed to keep producing top-class young starlets.
Ed Woodward is prepared to offer pay-rises of up to 50 per cent to work for United instead of City as he waves the chequebook in the same way as he does the world’s top players.
One scout has reportedly told City he is on his way to Carrington, with City exec Brian Marwood confident he can keep three others who have been offered jobs at United.
Since Sir Alex Ferguson left, each of the three Red Devils bosses have been told to look carefully at the academy structure, with David Moyes and Louis van Gaal given a blueprint by the great Scot.
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