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The Moment de gea found out about the Real Madrid transfer ban..

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des hardi said:
From BBC sport..."Manchester United will attempt to bring Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi to Old Trafford, according to reports."

Hahaha!



BBC is full of scum swine, even mentioned "lots of empty seats at the etihad again in the everton game" , nothing said about that traffic nightmare outside which held up fans en route.

Silly and poor journalism.... so petit it s nearly best ignored.
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the links between the BBC(who didn,t see saville) mufc bobby charlton etc etc are there for all fools to see.ifthey want to.
 
Apparently their academy director is leaving in the summer after becoming disillusioned with the clubs lack of interest in their academy.
 
United are facing more turmoil among their backroom staff with the impending departure of the club's academy chief. Derek Langley is planning to leave the club at the end of the season because of disillusionment about the state of the academy. (Times - subscription only)

From the beeb gossip!
 
The man responsible for Tom "Clevz" Cleverley and Danny "Welbz" Welbeck is walking from the rags.

Lets face it, not great news for us.
 
moomba said:
The man responsible for Tom "Clevz" Cleverley and Danny "Welbz" Welbeck is walking from the rags.

Lets face it, not great news for us.
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They could have Pep, Klopp and Mourhino running the academy. Whoever they appoint will have to deal with the fact that city Hoover the talent up and they end up with the ones we didn't want.

Big task for the person they hand the job to,their whole academy structure needs over hauling.
 
bugsyblue said:
Apparently their academy director is leaving in the summer after becoming disillusioned with the clubs lack of interest in their academy.
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Langley isn't the academy director. That position has yet to be filled since McClair resigned last February and left for a job in Scotland last May. Langley has just been slotted in under two characters called John Alexander (the club secretary ffs) and John Murtagh (ex-PL 'Elite Performance Director') who currently head up the academy. This is one of many reasons why the rags' academy is on the slide, a fact that countless rags totally fail to understand.
 
laserblue said:
Langley isn't the academy director. That position has yet to be filled since McClair resigned last February and left for a job in Scotland last May. Langley has just been slotted in under two characters called John Alexander (the club secretary ffs) and John Murtagh (ex-PL 'Elite Performance Director') who currently head up the academy. This is one of many reasons why the rags' academy is on the slide, a fact that countless rags totally fail to understand.
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but we all know the main reason is because we are "being over zealous in our courtship of attaining youth players" :-)
 
laserblue said:
Langley isn't the academy director. That position has yet to be filled since McClair resigned last February and left for a job in Scotland last May. Langley has just been slotted in under two characters called John Alexander (the club secretary ffs) and John Murtagh (ex-PL 'Elite Performance Director') who currently head up the academy. This is one of many reasons why the rags' academy is on the slide, a fact that countless rags totally fail to understand.
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What's his role then? Seems like they are all jumping ship.
 
bugsyblue said:
What's his role then? Seems like they are all jumping ship.
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Head of recruitment

Here is the full article, without paywall - http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/football/article4666014.ece


Langley is understood to have decided to retire because of disenchantment at the academy’s decline and limitations imposed on him regarding player recruitment. It is believed that he has become increasingly frustrated at working under John Alexander, the club secretary, and John Murtagh, Everton’s former head of performance, who was brought to Old Trafford by David Moyes, the pair who have taken charge of the academy since Brian McClair left his role as performance director at the end of last season.​

Despite United’s commitment to an overhaul that is likely to bring considerable changes in personnel at the end of the season, some academy staff are concerned that their work is not valued highly enough by Ed Woodward, United’s executive vice-chairman, who is perceived as being more concerned with making big-money signings than youth development.

Langley’s frustration is based on the difficulties he has faced in recruitment. Rather than cherry-picking the best young players in the north west of the country, as they were largely able to do during Sir Alex Ferguson’s time at the club, United have increasingly found themselves losing out to City and have been forced to recruit from lower-league clubs, offering trials last summer to players such as Paul Digby, a 20-year-old Barnsley defender who is now on loan at Ipswich Town of the Sky Bet Championship.

United have also suffered the embarrassment of former players such as Robin van Persie, Phil Neville and Darren Fletcher enrolling their sons with City, whose under-14 team beat their neighbours 9-0 this season.​
 
domalino said:
Head of recruitment

Here is the full article, without paywall - http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/public/football/article4666014.ece


Langley is understood to have decided to retire because of disenchantment at the academy’s decline and limitations imposed on him regarding player recruitment. It is believed that he has become increasingly frustrated at working under John Alexander, the club secretary, and John Murtagh, Everton’s former head of performance, who was brought to Old Trafford by David Moyes, the pair who have taken charge of the academy since Brian McClair left his role as performance director at the end of last season.​

Despite United’s commitment to an overhaul that is likely to bring considerable changes in personnel at the end of the season, some academy staff are concerned that their work is not valued highly enough by Ed Woodward, United’s executive vice-chairman, who is perceived as being more concerned with making big-money signings than youth development.

Langley’s frustration is based on the difficulties he has faced in recruitment. Rather than cherry-picking the best young players in the north west of the country, as they were largely able to do during Sir Alex Ferguson’s time at the club, United have increasingly found themselves losing out to City and have been forced to recruit from lower-league clubs, offering trials last summer to players such as Paul Digby, a 20-year-old Barnsley defender who is now on loan at Ipswich Town of the Sky Bet Championship.

United have also suffered the embarrassment of former players such as Robin van Persie, Phil Neville and Darren Fletcher enrolling their sons with City, whose under-14 team beat their neighbours 9-0 this season.​
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This is sweet reading. Even if they would start to put the same resources into youth development as City, they are already years and years behind. It will be very difficult for them to catch up :-)
 
Jazzman said:
This is sweet reading. Even if they would start to put the same resources into youth development as City, they are already years and years behind. It will be very difficult for them to catch up :-)
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They might have to start a " press gang " system to get their new recruits ........................................................or just resort to their old habit of " inducements " or play the " history " card !
 
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