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Van Gaal and United's youth problem

Manchester City 9, Manchester United 0. It wasn't the first team nor the under-21s, who have won their league in each of the past two seasons, but City's under-14s destroyed United's at the weekend. City we so strong that one observer said they would have still won with ease had United been at full strength.

On one level, the result of a game in which only one or two of the players may reach their club's first team doesn't mean that much. On another, it can act as an indicator for the problems with United's youth system, which I wrote about in July.