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Whereas the senior Manchester United workforce has actually seen higher days, each on and off the pitch, the youth workforce continues to blossom.
After falling behind earlier because of a scarcity of consideration and funding, United have made nice strides within the division.
The rise of Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo, simply to call two, is an instance of youth improvement completed proper.
United nearly added one other wonderkid to their youth ranks within the lately completed switch window in Sunderland’s Chris Rigg.
The Folks’s Particular person had reported that Sunderland’s asking value went past what United have been snug paying so the deal didn’t go additional.
Nonetheless, inews experiences that United retain an curiosity within the teenage prodigy.
Alongside Newcastle United, the Pink Devils have been scouting and monitoring his progress on the Championship membership.
Rigg was lately in comparison with Jordan Henderson by Head Coach Tony Mowbray because of his combative model of play and blossoming management qualities.
Like Rigg, Henderson additionally got here by way of Sunderland and impressed sufficient to leverage these performances for a transfer to Liverpool.
Rigg turned Sunderland’s youngest-ever league scorer when he netted on the age of 16 years and 76 days. He’s the second-youngest soccer league scorer of all time solely after Jude Bellingham.
The 16-year-old midfielder is getting pretty common recreation time on the Stadium of Gentle presently so it was unlikely he’d transfer from there to play for U21s at Outdated Trafford.
Nonetheless, if he retains up his meteoric rise for lengthy, it will likely be a matter of time earlier than the large golf equipment come calling.
In such a state of affairs, United consistently being in contact, be it through scouting or monitoring, might lend them an higher hand relating to last negotiations for his signature.
