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#1) Solskjaer’s hesitance on playing youth despite advocating a philosophy on the same

All season long, Manchester United have spoken on their desire to play youth and look towards the future. However, despite a majority of their top stars failing repeatedly, United have refrained from handing chances to their academy graduates.

Solskjaer’s reason for not buying a striker despite selling Romelu Lukaku in the summer was Mason Greenwood’s development. The Norwegian even went on to say that the teenager had the best attacking instinct in the club and yet Greenwood only gets to play in the dying minutes of a match. Surely he can’t fare worse than their current attacking options.

Then there’s the curious case of Tahiti-Chong, Angel Gomes and Brandon Williams who are all said to be prodigious talents. Yet Solskjaer prefers to play failing players such as Andres Pereira, Jessi Lingard, Fred and Ashley Young ahead of them.

It is obviously important to play a mix of youth and experience but when your experienced players give you no reason to pick them, the better decision perhaps, is to play your youth who are raring to go and waiting for a chance.

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