I mean , that sounds good but when we sent BorthwickJackson out on loan we had Shaw and Blind for the LB spot . Shaw needs as much game time as he can get see his struggles so far for example so no way it would be worth keeping BorrhwickJackson just to stagnate behind a better , young prospect . As for Varela , you have two RBs in Valencia and Darmian who are better players and a better youth prospect TFM . So it made sense to loan him . As for TFM , he has been given chances and looked well out of his depth if I ' m honest . We are also not in the league position to be blooding young inexperienced defenders in our defence . Nor could we do that in Europe . To do so would be stupid and place unnecessary pressure on them . I think giving TFM and maybe Tuanzebe minutes in the league cup is a good youth plan for the quality of players we have . Mourinho has given good minutes to young players so far Rashford , Martial and Shaw have all got solid game time . Criticism of him for his handling of youth at our club so far is completely baseless it has been handled perfectly well .