Having been nabbed from Crewe as a highly-rated youngster in the summer of 2012, Powell immediately went into the fringes of Ferguson’s first team. He since made over 100 appearances in the Championship for Reading and spent a season at Nottingham Forest before joining MLS outfit FC Cincinnati in 2021. Blackett was sold by Van Gaal’s successor Jose Mourinho in 2016. “He can play at this level, but can he play match after match? I can’t answer at the moment,” the Dutch coach said of the young defender as he got to grips with the United squad. What Phil Jones thinks his testimonial attendance would be vs What it'd actually be /ApQSgYnisTĪn injury crisis during the 2014-15 season saw Blackett get some senior opportunities under Louis van Gaal. Jones has made just 13 appearances in the last three seasons and according to reports has been told by Erik ten Hag to train separately from the first-team squad. Injuries reduced him to just 13 Premier League starts during the 2012-13 title-winning campaign, but the future looked bright as the club looked forward to a time beyond Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic.Īlright, the ‘new Duncan Edwards’ tag was always overstated and unhelpful, but you’d still have expected more. Jones genuinely looked one of the best young defenders in Europe in his early days at United. Instead, he joined Crystal Palace following the expiration of his contract at the Hawthorns. In the summer he was linked with a romantic return to United following Dean Henderson’s loan departure. That form resulted in Johnstone receiving regular England call-ups, and at the time of writing, he’s received three caps for Gareth Southgate’s Three Lions.
He joined West Brom and made a name for himself there, starring in their 2019-20 promotion and making the most saves of any Premier League goalkeeper as the Baggies suffered relegation in their first year back. He was named on the bench on a number of occasions during the 2012-13 campaign but never made a senior debut for his boyhood club.Īfter no fewer than 10 loan moves, he eventually departed Old Trafford in 2018. The Carrington academy graduate was a regular for United’s Under-21s and Under-18s during Ferguson’s later years. We’ve taken a look through the FM Scout database to pick out Manchester United’s 10 wonderkids from Football Manager 2013 and taken a look to see whether the real-life players have lived up to their early potential a decade later. Few of their class of 2013 went on to quite reach their potential, either.
Things haven’t quite gone to plan, with a nine-year – and counting – wait for another league title since Ferguson retired in 2013. Not only that, but the club’s famous academy was continuing to produce a healthy batch of eye-catching youngsters as FM2013’s list of United wonderkids underlines. New signing Robin van Persie was banging in the goals and they’d eventually reclaim the Premier League title at a canter. Sir Alex Ferguson was still at the helm and already had a healthy lead at the top of the table in their quest to knock the champions Manchester City off their perch. The mood at Manchester United was good when Football Manager 2013 was released back in early November 2012.
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