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Manchester United transfer news: United and neighbours Manchester City among Premier League clubs tracking Bury wonderkids Jacob Bedeau and Callum Styles

Liverpool and Everton also watched highly-rated teenage pair in Monday’s League One clash with Sheffield United

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MANCHESTER UNITED and neighbours Man City are tracking Bury wonderkids Jacob Bedeau and Callum Styles.

Merseyside rivals Liverpool and Everton were also in attendance as Premier League sides flocked to Gigg Lane to watch the highly-rated teenage pair in Monday’s clash with Sheffield United, according to .

Jacob Bedeau and Callum Styles
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Jacob Bedeau and Callum Styles have attracted the attentions of Prem clubs

Bedeau, 17, and Styles, 16, have broken into the first team in recent weeks and their emergence has alerted a number of the nation’s top talent-spotters.


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Centre-half Bedeau has played in the League One strugglers’ last six games while midfielder Styles has featured in the last three.

Styles hit the headlines at the end of last season when he became the first player born on the 21 st century to lace up his boots in the Football League.

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Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho is a fan of the Bury pairCredit: Reuters
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The Shakers were then docked three points as he had not been properly registered – dropping them from 14th to 16th in the final standings.

Bedeau and Styles are rated as two of the best players to come out of Bury’s impressive academy in recent seasons.

15-year-old Emeka Obi moved to Liverpool in October while Everton signed defender Matthew Foulds a year ago.

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