Ralf Rangnick makes academy pledge.
Ralf Rangnick has outlined his commitment to continuing Man United’s proud tradition of bringing academy talents into the club’s first team.
Ralf Rangnick Man United interim manager handed senior debuts to two young Academy players-18-year-old Zidane Iqbal and Charlie Savage- – in Wednesday night’s 1-1 draw against Young Boys.
“The Academies are highly important, even more so in England,” Rangnick explains in our matchday.
“If you look at the number of players who have developed in the last 10 years, England is probably in the top two or three in Europe for developing young top talented players.
“We have three of them {English talents} in our own first team – with Jason, with Mason and with Marcus. We need to make sure, in the future, every year or ever other year, one or two, if not three, of those players are being good enough to perform and to play n our level.”
With the first team’s fixture list as busy as ever over the festive period, there may not be much time for anything but preparing for them, although Rangnick has insisted he will make space in his schedule to watch the Academy sides in action.
The Manager revealed: ”Yeah, I will try to watch as many games as I possibly can,”
“Next Friday, there is a big game of the under-23s against Chelsea, so we have already spoken about that.
“I will try watch that game and some, two or three, of our [first-team] players will also be able to get game- time against there in that game.”
