When Manchester United's Under-21s played Monaco in November, a French journalist in the press box recommended keeping an eye on 17-year-old Eliesse Ben Seghir, who had built a reputation as a supremely exciting prospect in his country.
Ben Seghir was kept quiet under the floodlights at Old Trafford, but a few weeks later, he scored a stunning brace on his Ligue 1 debut for Monaco's first-team and showed the beauty of attending such academy fixtures: gems can be unearthed.
On Friday night, a new generation of youngsters, Jack Kingdon, Elyh Harrison, Louis Jackson and Ethan Williams, were chosen to make the next step in their careers, as they were given their full debuts for United's U21s in the Premier League 2 against Arsenal.
