Manchester United Academy Briefing 13 August 2025 season begins

UNDER-16s IN HONG KONG

Our Below-16s are proudly representing the membership overseas in the mean time, as a part of a long-standing partnership with The Hong Kong Jockey Membership.

The group will have interaction in cultural actions, sharing experiences with native footballers and coaching collectively at improbable services, with ex-Reds Peter Schmeichel and Phil Jones travelling with them to offer recommendation.

United will play two pleasant matches, on 15 and 17 August, at Mong Kok Stadium. The primary match will function the Manchester United Academy Below-16 squad versus a Premier Youth League Choose Workforce, whereas the second match might be between Manchester United Academy U16 and the Hong Kong, China U16 Consultant Workforce.

POSITIVE STARTS

Nicely finished to our gamers out on mortgage, lots of whom have loved very optimistic begins to their short-term spells within the EFL.

Goalkeeper Radek Vitek was named ‘Choose of the Match’ on his debut for Bristol Metropolis within the Championship, as they defeated Sheffield United 4-1. Jack Moorhouse confirmed indicators of wonderful ball-carrying capacity in his first appearances for Leyton Orient, and the identical was true of Ethan Wheatley for Northampton City, additionally in League One.

Though Shrewsbury City had been crushed within the Carabao Cup first spherical, Elyh Harrison made a penalty save on his aggressive debut for Michael Appleton’s facet. The Shrews supervisor, who graduated from our Academy himself within the Nineties, mentioned Elyh “had a extremely good night and we noticed what he’s able to by way of making saves [and] extra importantly, what he does with the ball as nicely.”

Jonny Evans is in common contact with all of our loanees in his new position as head of loans and pathways, and continues to work on securing optimistic strikes for different gamers nonetheless working laborious at Carrington with the Skilled Growth Section (U17-U21) group.