United prides itself on the blossoming of its youth-team graduates and Jesse Lingard is the latest to flourish on the big stage. Lingard signed professional terms with United in 2011 before spending periods on loan at Leicester, Birmingham, Brighton and Derby in England’s lower leagues from 2012-15. “These boys, they jump or they don’t jump,” United manager Jose Mourinho said. Some players are not capable of making that jump, some players go from that … to normal players. Instead, United climbed to second place, 12 points behind Manchester City, whose game in hand is against Watford on Tuesday.

Source: National Post January 01, 2018 17:05 UTC