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Paul Pogba (Man Utd)
The Frenchman’s move on a free from Manchester United to Juventus in 2012 has passed into infamy as an example of what happens what a club fails to secure the services of a major talent within their midst.
In Italy, Pogba blossomed to become one of the most exciting and talented midfielders in the world. United may now have to pay a world record fee to bring him back to Old Trafford. They could have kept their cash in their pockets had
Sir Alex Ferguson given the youngster more of a chance in the first team.
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Jerome Boateng (Man City)
At Bayern Munich, the German centre-back has developed into arguably the best and most complete defenders. The only prize that has alluded him since leaving the Etihad after a single season in 2011 has been the European Championships for his country.

Fast, strong and brilliant on the ball, he was Pep Guardiola’s rock at the back in Bavaria. With Vincent Kompany once again suffering injury problems, what would his former manager and former club do to have him join up with them again now?

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Eric Dier (Everton – loan)
Perhaps the only English player to depart Euro 2016 with their reputation enhanced, Tottenham Hotspur’s versatile anchorman might not have had to wait to make a breakthrough back in his homeland had his loan move from Sporting to Everton provided him with more than just a bit of experience of life in the Premier League.
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Gerard Pique (Man Utd)
Back across town to Old Trafford, and another world class European centre-back who really has won it all for club and county despite being allowed to depart the Premier League with minimal fuss, Barcelona’s Gerard Pique.
With Spain he has reigned as a champion of the Europe and the World. As a Barcelona player he has so far won three Champions League titles, two trebles and numerous leagues and cups. United, meanwhile, have struggled to replace Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic with players of similar quality. Pique would have fit the bill perfectly.
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Kevin De Bruyne (Chelsea)
The Belgian was already highly-rated when he arrived at Stamford Bridge from Genk in 2012 after four seasons of senior football. However, despite his promise, Chelsea never saw the best of him. In 2012 he was loaned out to Werder Bremen. After impressing in the Bundesliga, Wolfsburg snapped him on a permanent deal in January 2014. He flourished as the team’s focal point, topping the charts across Europe for chances created in his first full season with his new club, convincing Manchester City to put down some serious cash to sign him. Chelsea’s loss was a major rival’s gain.
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Mikel San Jose (Liverpool)
A Spain international and defensive stalwart of Athletic Club, it’s often forgotten that San Jose was a Liverpool player for three years from 2007 to 2010.
Who knows if he would have come as good at Anfield as he has done in Bilbao but Jurgen Klopp could have certainly done with a player of his calibre last season.

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Arjen Robben (Chelsea)
Much like De Bruyne, Robben was already an emerging star in his homeland when Chelsea came calling in 2004. He lasted three seasons in England, winning the Premier League twice along with two League Cups and the FA Cup. But after falling out with Jose Mourinho he was sold to Real Madrid and then later moved on to Bayern Munich. In Germany, he became more than just a dangerous winger but one of the best players in the world.
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Nikola Kalinic (Blackburn Rovers)
The Croatian didn’t live up to expectations with Blackburn, scoring just seven goals in 44 league appearances, yet after leaving the North West of England he has thrived for both club and country. In Ukraine, he scored 37 goals in
86 league games for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and last season fired home 12 in 36 for Fiorentina as they surged to the front of the pack during the first portion of the Serie A season.
For Croatia, he has scored four goals in four during 2016, including the equaliser against Spain in the their 2-1 Group Stage win.
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Diego Forlan (Man Utd)
In 2001, it looked as though United had managed to snag the next big thing in South American football: with 40 goals in 91 games for Independiente, much was expected of Diego Forlan. But after spending three frustrated seasons in the Premier League he left for Spain where he became one of the most prolific goalscorers in Europe.
That’s not to say that the Uruguayan didn’t leave his own during his time in the North West of England. United fans still sing his chant on a match day and venerate him for his goals against their bitter regional rivals, Liverpool.
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Adrien Rabiot (Man City)
The Paris Saint-Germain midfielder isn’t exactly Manchester City’s own version of the Paul Pogba debacle endured by United, but during 2008 the 21-year-old was on the club’s books. He is now regarded as one of the most complete prospects in his position in Europe and exactly the sort of player Pep Guardiola would love to work with at the Etihad.
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Danny Drinkwater (Man Utd)
A Premier League champion with Leicester City in 2016, Drinkwater is one of many solid, dependable midfield players to come through United’s academy over the past decade or so, and the finest example yet that some of those who have been allowed to leave before being properly tried out perhaps should have stuck around.
His calm, composed style of play alongside the more frantic N’Golo Kante was the driving force for the Foxes’ march to the title, tidying up loose balls and tackles in front of his back four and creating chances from deep. In the same season, Louis van Gaal’s United often looked short of ideas and security through the middle.

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Shkodran Mustafi (Everton)
At just 24 years of age, Mustafi is already a World Cup-winner with Germany and the cornerstone of Valencia’s defence. He is also a former Everton player who managed just one substitute appearance in his two-and-a-half season stay on Merseyside before moving on to Sampdoria and then to Spain in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
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Jeffrey Bruma (Chelsea)
This summer, the 24-year-old Dutch centre-back left PSV Eindhoven after three seasons to complete the third permanent transfer of his professional career, moving to Wolfsburg after winning back-to-back league titles in the Netherlands.
Between 2007 and 2013, however, Bruma was a Chelsea player and yet another talented footballer allowed to leave a Premier League squad too soon.

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Giuseppe Rossi (Man Utd)
Long before Marcus Rashford and James Wilson there was Giuseppe Rossi – the New Jersey-born Italian-American wonderkid striker who combined excellent technical skills with predatory instincts and a low centre of gravity to look every bit the modern centre-forward the age of David Villa and Lionel Messi.
However, a loan move to Newcastle United under Glenn Roeder proved to be an ill-suited setback rather than an opportunity and injuries robbed him of his momentum. Like Forlan, he was allowed to move to Spain where he soon became one of the most dangerous attackers in La Liga before injury ruined his progress, and scuppered a move to join Barcelona. At least United didn’t have to watch on with even more regret as their former youngster conquered Europe with the Catalans too.

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Iago Falque (Tottenham Hotspur)
After spells with Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus as a youth player, Roma winger Falque certainly had the CV of a prospect with a pedigree when he signed for Spurs in 2011 after a breakthrough season out on loan with Villarreal. However, like with so much of the talent that has passed through White Hart Lane over the years, it never really happened for the Spaniard in north London. He left in 2014 after making only one Premier League appearance.
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Denis Suarez (Man City)
Last season, Denis Suarez was the creative star at the heart of a Villarreal side that reached the final four of the Europa League and fourth in La Liga. This summer, he has moved to Barcelona after having originally left the club to join the Yellow Submarine in 2015 but before he was a player for the Catalans he was a young talent on the books of Manchester City. Who knows what Pep Guardiola would have made of him had he been kept at the Etihad?
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Ryan Shawcross (Man Utd)
Stoke City’s bruising enforcer used to be on the books of the United academy before he moved to the Potteries on a permanent basis in 2008 after a season on loan.
While his style of play may not always endear him to the aesthetes he remains a very effective and troublesome defender for attackers to deal with. After watching their centre-backs crumple under minimal pressure in recent years, the calls to bring Shawcross back to Old Trafford have become a common feature most transfer windows.

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Borja Valero (West Brom)
Today, Valero is the beating heart of Fiorentina’s midfield but in 2008 he rocked up at the Hawthorns for a spell in the Premier League that never saw the midfielder showcase his true potential. After two seasons on loan with Mallorca and then Villarreal, the former Real Madrid youth product moved to the latter on a permanent basis to become one of the most celebrated players outside of the big three in La Liga.
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Stefan Savic (Man City)
Boateng isn’t the only young centre-back whose potential City have failed to make the most of in recent seasons. In 2011, Stefan Savic was signed from Partizan and immediately cast as the future of the club’s defence. However, he lasted just a season before being moved on in a part-exchange deal with Fiorentina for Matija Nastasić, who has also since departed for Schalke. Savic spent four years in Serie A before moving to Atletico Madrid, with whom he reached the Champions League final in 2016.
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Oguzhan Ozyakup (Arsenal)
A winner of the Premier League Academy league in 2009 and 2010 with Arsenal as well as the prestigious FA Youth Cup in 2009, Oguzhan “Ozzy” Ozyakup left the Gunners in 2012 and has since gone on to become a regular for Besitkas, making over 140 appearances in all competitions and winning 23 caps for Turkey. In that time he has directly contributed to 54 goals for his club and won the Turkish Super Lig in 2016.


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