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Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has made a “change” to first-team training which has produced a “real spark” at Carrington according to sources close to the club, an inside report reveals.

Mixing old and young

GIVEMESPORT explains Amorim has started to “include more and more youth players” in senior training with the Portuguese tactician believing the combination “adds hunger and energy to sessions.”

While previously senior players and academy starlets had often trained separately, Amorim has been increasingly “blending” both groups in “tactical and technical drills” which encourages greater “competition and communication”.

One well-placed source contends this has an immediate effect with the first-team squad benefitting from the injection of enthusiasm from their younger counterparts, and vice versa in terms of the sharing of experience at the highest level.

“Training’s got a real spark to it again. The young lads aren’t there just to make up the numbers – Amorim wants them learning the standards and pushing for places,” the source reveals to GIVEMESPORT.

There are downsides, however, with some of the academy graduates “tak[ing] time to fully settle” as they “are still adjusting to the pace and physicality of first-team football”.

But Amorim and his...