
Manchester United manager Michael Carrick confirmed that JJ Gabriel is “too young” to appear in a Premier League squad this season but that hasn’t stopped him jumping on the hype train.
Premier League rule L.22 in the handbook states that senior teams can only call up players from the Under-16 side or above. These age groups are decided by school year according the British academic system: Year 7 is made up of children between the ages of 11 and 12, so they would correspond to the U12s team. Those in Year 8 fall into U13s and so on. Therefore, a player must be in Year 11 to be old enough to play in the Premier League.