Talk:Manchester United F.C. Under-21s and Academy

message: Anything I submit will inevitably be deleted so I will direct you to United's club page on uefa.com, where you'll find two new squad numbers listed JPMJPMJPM 21:40, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks pretty official, but would you mind if we waited until the new numbers were confirmed by the club themselves? - PeeJay 22:10, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks even more official now, but unless he gets on, this is not sufficient as evidence, no? Excuse me if I am not familiar with every clause and subclause of your rulebook. JPMJPMJPM 19:18, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  40 & 41 

message: Well?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.184.156.108 (talk) 16:40, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well what? Rhain Davis is not in the Manchester United Academy. – PeeJay 16:48, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

text: He's currently training with the club's Under-10s, IIRC, and due to his age, he can't move to another club for a few years. – PeeJay 10:49, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rhain Davies 

message: I believe this section could do with trimming, as I'd argue against the notability of some of the listed players.  However, rather than just doing it, can we come to some sort of consensus on who to include? Darkson (Yabba Dabba Doo!) 10:47, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable former Academy and Youth Team players 

message: Have reverted his nationality to English, couldn't fit an explanation into the edit summary box so i'll put it here - Stewart is English but qualifies for Scotland via a parent/grandparent. He has recently been named in Scotland under-17 squads but hasn't taken up the invitation to join up with them, instead preferring to continue representing England at that level (and indeed he played for England u17's last week, check www.thefa.com for details). - NickOGS20  23:55, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've changed Stewart's nationality back to English, as I reverted a big edit a few mins ago. However, I couldn't find any evidence that Tom Cleverley or Chris Fagan are officially in the Reserves, or that anyone named Joshua King or Oliver Brady were in the club's youth squads. – PeeJay 23:07, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cameron Stewart 

message: I've just edited the positions to fall in line with the rest of the football world. Another think I'd like to be seen done is for the squad list of the Academy to be formatted in the way any other football squad is formatted using the relevant template. I also don't understand the need for players to be listed twice on this page..in both the Reserves and Academy sections e.g., Tom Cleverley. ForeverDevil (talk) 12:24, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Was about to look at an audit of the Academy squad list. My assumption is that the only qualification for listing players under the Academy head are those listed as this on the official website? ForeverDevil (talk) 16:51, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that's it. Unless you have a copy of the club yearbook for 2008, in which case you should use the list in there. – PeeJay 17:07, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup Needed 

message: What about the likes of Devlin & Dudgeon who have featured in many reserve games this season surely they should be added to the reserve squad list unless we are just going by who's on the roster on the reserve profiles page??  cooki2222 (talk) 13:25, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Got it in one. We're going by the reserve team list on the official site. – PeeJay 12:02, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reserve squad 

message: What happened to Daniel Galbraith? RicoRichmond (talk) 13:43, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC, he's been sold to Hibs. – PeeJay 14:08, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You sure? He's still listed on the Manchester United site. RicoRichmond (talk) 21:23, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Man Utd site is notoriously unreliable for up-to-the-minute info on the club's squads. Anyway, this BBC report would seem to confirm the matter. – PeeJay 21:30, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daniel Galbraith 

message: How do we know he's Scottish? Brian McClair was Scottish, but was Liam not born in England? How do we know that he has chosen to be identified as a Scottish International? Is there any sourcing for this? RicoRichmond (talk) 13:18, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that Liam's place of birth has much to do with his nationality in this case. Brian McClair is one of the most Scottish people around, so it's fairly certain that Liam identifies as Scottish too. – PeeJay 13:49, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Liam McClair should probably be removed from the page - he hasn't played for the academy since August 2007 and was removed from the official site academy player list months ago. Oliver Gill has also now signed professional (see news item on official site last week) so is no longer an academy student. - NickOGS20 (talk) 22:23, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is Liam McClair no longer with the club at all then? I can find him on any of the current squad pages on the club's official website. – PeeJay 22:35, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  As far as I know he left in 2007, very shortly after initially being announced as an academy student, but the official site kept his profile up for about a year, while last season's yearbook still inexplicably included him (no real shock given the usual lack of accuracy of both those). He was taken off the official site player list at some point last season and definitely isn't at the club now (or any other club as far as I know). NickOGS20 (talk) 22:46, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liam McClair 

message: is now at fulham.
he should be deleted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.60.246.109 (talk) 20:49, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you prove that? – PeeJay 21:37, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jack Dean 

message: What are we using as a source for this? Surely players like Macheda are no longer academy players. And why are we using a different table to that used above in the Reserves section. 
I would have though we would have used: http://www.manutd.com/default.sps?pagegid={A4EE59F6-31C1-4AAB-8038-9EF74A45166F}&teamid=437&page=2 as a source? Tom (talk) 16:26, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been using the list of academy students that can be found in the official club yearbook each year. – PeeJay 16:53, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Academy Section

message: Just wanted to explain an edit I've made to the reserves squad concerning Cameron Stewart - while he is on loan at Yeovil, that deal is a 'Youth' loan, which means he's still eligible for our reserves.  As he appears to be a regular for the reserves (report from last night's match here) I thought it was better to show that he was still part of our squad.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RSB689908 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's interesting. I'd never heard of a "youth" loan before today! – PeeJay 22:39, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Cameron Stewart

message: According to the "on loan" section, it says that Corry Evans is at Carlisle United until the 21st of November, and that Oliver Norwood is also at Carlisle, although his loan ended on the 17th of November. Shouldn't we remove them from the "on loan" section because their loans have ended? Velociraptor888 07:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you think something needs changing, just bloody change it! – PeeJay 01:36, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loans ended 

message: In the beginnings, these two cups were played by the senior team, not by the reserves. I would suggest putting the early cup winnings in the senior Manchester United FC article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.217.160.189 (talk) 12:09, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manchester and Lancashire Senior Cup 

message: I think we should reword the area and have only players who represented their country in senior international game. We can remove the "...regularly at a high level of club football.", almost all United players who been in the academy end up playing in one team or another, and also in thier country in those under-XY teams. Right now the list is incomplete with at least more than 50 years of missing players. What everyone else think? maybe even remove it completely? as its far from been an encyclopedic table and adding of needed citations.   – HonorTheKing (talk) 15:37, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 100% agree, I was thinking the same thing a few days ago. doomgaze (talk) 15:44, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I am glad you think the same, Do you think the first option of rewording is better than the second option of removing it entirely?   – HonorTheKing (talk) 16:40, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I also agree. If we limit it to players who have made an international appearance, that would probably be sufficient, although it may end up including some randomers and excluding some fairly prominent players. – PeeJay 18:32, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we should at least give the only-international-apps criterion a shot. I'm not sure how long the list would be, might be a bit trickier for older players. When was the academy even founded? The article doesn't say. doomgaze (talk) 21:50, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we'd be looking at the 1930s, when the MUJAC (Manchester United Junior Athletic Club) was founded. – PeeJay 21:52, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

text: Ok, I will redo this tonight and will see how it will look.   – HonorTheKing (talk) 09:40, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section Notable former Academy and Youth Team players; Take 2 

message: Shouldn't he be in the current squad? The official site lists him in the under 21s profiles. (KOwool (talk) 06:42, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gyliano van Velzen 

message: Where have they gone/ They aren't listed in either the under 21's or first team squad.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.234.75.43 (talk) 14:43, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blackett And James 

message: Sean Goss and James Weir are listed in both the 1st team and reserves. They are different teams that train separate therefore they need to be in one or the other. The same can be said about Marcus Rashford and Axel Tuanzebe in the 2nd year scholars so why are these listed twice when they have progressed into the first team.
:They're listed twice because the sources (i.e. the squad lists on the club website) list them twice. How can you know which squad the players train with? The only reliable source we have is the club website. – PeeJay 18:32, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Training with the first team isn't always a permanent thing. How do you even know the first team and reserves don't always train together, with separate training for the under-18s? This whole discussion is moot anyway, as we have reliable sources for who should be included in each list. Please stop messing with that. – PeeJay 10:13, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  First team or Reserve squad 

message: The new players have been added to the official websites for the under 21's & under 18's wold you be kind to amend this page?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.171.185 (talk) 15:46, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  2016/17 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Can we please only use the clubs official webpages for squad numbers? Dean Henderson, Joe Riley & Regan Poole have no official number listed on the website so why are we presuming they have the numbers 34,41,49
:Because they were given those numbers last season and we have no reason to assume the number has since been rescinded. – PeeJay 16:22, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, those numbers came from UEFA.com, as the players were given those numbers for the Europa League campaign. – PeeJay 16:29, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

text: Yes, it's possible that they may be removed if they're not listed in a few weeks. And training shirt numbers aren't related to a player's squad number; sometimes they're the same, other times they bear absolutely no relation. – PeeJay 18:01, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

text: Those are just their training numbers. For first-team players, those numbers do match up with their training numbers, but unless a player has been officially registered with the Premier League or UEFA with a specific squad number, we shouldn't add it here. – PeeJay 16:07, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Squad Numbers 

message: Jacob Carney needs leaving as a 1st year scholar and not kept on moving to a 2nd year scholar. 
The offical Man Utd website states Jacob is a 1st year scholar in the 2018/19 intake, for 2017/18 he was an academy student. This year he becomes a 1st year scholar  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.198.42.106 (talk) 11:37, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the info. However, he did join the club in July 2017, so I've changed that back in the article. – PeeJay 20:35, 8 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jacob Carney 

message: The Manchester United Reserves won the Manchester Senior Cup for the first time in 1999. In this article there are titles won by the first team. The fact that some people considered "minor honours" doesn't allow them to misinform — Preceding unsigned comment added by Angel Millo (talk • contribs) 04:55, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, have removed the ones noted before that. Govvy (talk) 09:14, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First team, reserves and honours 

message: There is not a squad number column for the U18s some of these players have squad numbers due to playing in the EFL trophy, can a squad number column be added? 5.198.42.106 (talk) 15:21, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Squad number columns 

message: Why does the page have two separate info boxes on it? I am inclined to remove the second one as most of it is just repeated information from the top most box. Do others agree? Govvy (talk) 09:16, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's quite clear they refer to different aspects. – PeeJay 09:30, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  info boxes