Welcome to the first edition of this season's Manchester United academy notebook. The Manchester Evening News provide more coverage of United's academy than any other outlet and we experimented by publishing an academy notebook last season.
We waited for the academy football to get fully underway in 2024/25 to bring it back, and we will bring our readers the notebook each week now it's been relaunched.
The notebook will include the latest academy information in digestible chunks and provide insight that can't be found anywhere else, so look out for the article every Thursday. ALSO READ: United may have found another first-team winger ALSO READ: Erik ten Hag criticises new Europa League format Without further ado, here is a round-up of the latest news from the club's youth set-up... Lusale and Overy are unveiled The MEN revealed in June that James Overy had accepted a scholarship deal at the club, but academy signings are subject to red tape and approval was only received this month.
Samuel Lusale was in the same boat as Overy and the young pair were forced to be patient for Premier League and FA approval for their summer moves to Manchester.
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