MANCHESTER UNITED SQUAD AND ITS AGE BILL- New signings required despite youngsters’ inflow
The last English football season came to an end with so much being talked about Manchester United and its aging squad but still the fact remains that United have a decent squad and a very decent crop of a young brigade. The basis of the following bifurcation is the number of years a United player has spent on the field after passing out of the academy.
So here goes the list:
20th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1970 - 31 August 1971)
29 October 1970 - Edwin Van Der Sar
19th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1971 - 31 August 1972)
NO PLAYERS
18th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1972 - 31 August 1973)
NO PLAYERS
17th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1973 - 31 August 1974)
29 November 1973 - Ryan Giggs
16th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1974 - 31 August 1975)
16 November 1974 - Paul Scholes
18 February 1975 - Gary Neville
15th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1975 - 31 August 1976)
NO PLAYERS
14th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1976 - 31 August 1977)
NO PLAYERS-
13th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1977 - 31 August 1978)
NO PLAYERS
12th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1978 - 31 August 1979)
7 November 1978 - Rio Ferdinand
11th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1979 - 31 August 1980)
13 October 1979 - Wes Brown
14 December 1979 - Michael Owen
10th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1980 - 31 August 1981)
20 January 1981 - Owen Hargreaves
30 January 1981 - Dimitar Berbatov
25 February 1981 - Ji-Sung Park
30 April 1981 - John O'Shea
15 May 1981 - Patrice Evra
28 July 1981 - Michael Carrick
9th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1981 - 31 August 1982)
21 October 1981 - Nemanja Vidic
20 March 1982 - Tomasz Kuszczak
8th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1982 - 31 August 1983)
3 April 1983 - Ben Foster
7th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1983 - 31 August 1984)
1 February 1984 - Darren Fletcher
6th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1984 - 31 August 1985)
4 August 1985 - Antonio Valencia
5th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1985 - 31 August 1986)
24 October 1985 - Wayne Rooney
15 April 1986 - Tom Heaton
4th Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1986 - 31 August 1987)
17 November 1986 - Luis Nani
28 April 1987 - Zoran Tosic
3rd Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1987 - 31 August 1988)
25 October 1987 - Darron Gibson
16 December 1987 - Mame Biram Diouf
2 January 1988 - Jonny Evans
13 April 1988 - Oliveira Anderson
4 May 1988 - David Gray
1 June 1988 - Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez
2nd Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1988 - 31 August 1989)
28 November 1988 - Ritchie De Laet
28 November 1988 - Sam Hewson
23 January 1989 - James Chester
4 February 1989 - Febian Brandy
6 February 1989 - Craig Cathcart
12 February 1989 - Ron-Robert Zieler
13 February 1989 - Rodrigo Possebon
26 February 1989 - Gabriel Obertan
12 August 1989 - Tom Cleverley
1st Year "after Academy" (born between 1 September 1989 - 31 August 1990)
22 November 1989 - Chris Smalling
10 April 1990 - Ben Amos
5 March 1990 - Danny Drinkwater
9 July 1990 - Fabio Da Silva
9 July 1990 - Rafael Da Silva
30 July 1990 - Corry Evans
8 August 1990 - Magnus Eikrem
3rd Year Academy students (born between 1 September 1990 - 31 August 1991)
15 September 1990 - Oliver Gill
26 November 1990 - Joe Dudgeon
26 November 1990 - Danny Welbeck
7 December 1990 - Scott Moffatt
8 April 1991 - Cameron Stewart
12 April 1991 - Oliver Norwood
22 July 1991 - Matt James
22 August 1991 - Federico Macheda
2nd Year Academy students(born between 1 September 1991 - 31 August 1992)
12 September 1991 - Scott Wootton
23 September 1991 - Conor Devlin
5 October 1991 - Davide Petrucci
7 October 1991 - Nicky Ajose
1 November 1991 - Reece Brown
14 January 1992 - Robert Brady
15 January 1992 - Joshua King
Marnick Vermiji (date of birth only known as 1992 so far!)
1st Year Academy students (born after 1 September 1992)
9 September 1992 - Ezekiel Fryers
15 December 1992 - Jesse Lingard
30 December 1992 - Ryan Tunnicliffe
11 January 1993 - Michael Keane
11 January 1993 - Will Keane
13 January 1993 - Tom Thorpe
21 January 1993 - John Cofie
27 January 1993 - Etzaz Husain
2 February 1993 - Ravel Morrison
4 February 1993 - Luke Giverin
9 March 1993 - Larnell Cole
15 March 1993 - Paul Pogba
25 March 1993 - Samuel Johnstone
27 May 1993 - Alberto Massacci
11 August 1993 - Sean McGinty
3 September 1993 - Michele Fornasier
Youngsters!
Joe Coll
Jack Barmby
Tyler Blackett
So the full spread of United’s current players runs from Edwin Van Der Sar, who turns 40 this coming October, right down to the new Italian defender, Michele Fornasier who won't even be 17 until September.
United have very decent youngsters coming out of the academy and with UEFA’s homegrown rule coming into play from 2012, this can come in very handy, but having said that United still needs to buy in the summers in order to put up a decent challenge for the title’s next term. With Berbatov and Carrick heading out of Old Trafford, United certainly needs enforcing not to mention if Hargreaves fails to make a successful comeback and off course VDS can’t go on forever, so even with a decent crop of young blood in their wings United still has to get the cheque books out this summer.
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