Although the Dutchman has so far only played in defence for the first - team, regular watchers of the club's
academy teams suggest the former - Ajax youth product's ultimate destiny lies further forward, as an unassailable midfield general.
Not exact matches
Reports are keen to
suggest and hint that our full - back would relish
teaming up with Pep Guardiola, who he spent time with at Barcelona in his younger years, as well as claiming he would be eager to return to Barca where he previously served at the
academy.
United appear to be on a real drive to raise the levels of quality within their
academy, with the report also
suggesting that two Belgian teenagers could be heading to United, with the Red Devils perhaps responding to the fact that City have recently opened the # 200 million Etihad Campus in a bid to produce more young players for the first
team.
Not only has the 23 - year old graduate of the Southampton
academy failed to secure a regular first
team place since coming to north London as a highly rated and promising teenager, but a quick look at the recent trophy success of the two clubs would
suggest that playing for Chelsea is more likely to fill up your trophy room.
United have Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford, Timothy Fosu - Mensah and Sam Johnstone in their first
team squad, with players such as Joshua Harrop, Matty Willock, Ro - Shaun Williams, and Axel Tuanzebe coming through the ranks, which is something that would, to me at least,
suggest that City's all singing and all dancing
Academy is not as good as it is portrayed.
To their surprise, the researchers found that the samples from the thermokarst sites had lower levels of colored dissolved organic matter than did reference sites,
suggesting that the carbon in the deeper soils exposed by thermokarst failure is significantly different from the carbon draining from the topmost, active layer of the permafrost, the
team reports in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
The
team's findings, published in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences today,
suggest new applications in areas such as tissue engineering and soft robotics where hydrogel is commonly used.
The
team, led by Liz Pellicano of London's Institute of Education,
suggests that while autistic kids may be good at spotting preset visual patterns, they find it harder to work out rules from apparently random events (Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1014076108).
In contrast, the man displayed peaks and valleys of brain activity that closely matched those of the healthy volunteers,
suggesting that he might have been following the plot, the
team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Many trees now growing in and around the Jemez villages sprouted in the 1630s and 1640s,
suggesting that the communities were abandoned around that time, the
team reports today in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
This lack of a physical response
suggests that marijuana abusers might have damaged reward circuitry in their brains, Volkow and her
team report online today in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
Despite these miniscule variations, the flies showed a consistent preference for one arm of the maze over the other, the
team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences,
suggesting that the flies could tell the difference between the odorants.
This keeps the phages in the mucus, where they have access to bacteria, and
suggests that the viruses and the mucus - producing tissue have adapted to be compatible with each other, the
team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
A paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National
Academy of Science by MIT professor of geophysics Daniel Rothman and other members of the Foundations of Complex Life
team suggests the P / T extinction resulted from methane - producing archaea called Methanosarcina suddenly blooming in the oceans.