Kevin De Bruyne only trained briefly with Jadon Sancho when the pair shared a dressing room at Manchester City but the Belgian saw enough to realise how good the teenager was.
Sancho occasionally trained with the Blues' first team during De Bruyne's first two years at the Etihad, before the winger moved to Borussia Dortmund for £8million in the summer of 2017.
Since then Sancho has gone from strength to strength, becoming the hottest prospect in European football and an England regular at the age of 19.
He could return to Manchester this summer, but at Old Trafford rather than the Etihad, with United keen on making Sancho a key piece of their rebuild under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
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