I've been really impressed by this 18 year old kid LvG has been playing from our academy. He just had his best game against Liverpool in a United shirt. With all this talk about us finding a new replacement for Luke Shaw due to his injury, I say look no further than Cameron Borthwick-Jackson. He has been showing maturity well beyond his age and has been improving game after game this season. He has got the toughness, speed, build and composure to be the next united left-back for a decade. The competition with Shaw will only make him better.

Games so far this season:

West-Brom:

Wolfsburg:

Bournemouth:

Chelsea:

Sheffield United:

Shaw is easily better, and it will be good for Jackson to be behind him for awhile. One very positive aspect of Jackson playing LB is that it lets Darmian play RB, where he's a rock, as opposed to LB, where he's awful.

I am a huge fan of our academy right now though. It's pushing out player after player with incredible potential.

this guy did play very well today though.. good player..

Only thing I remembered from him today was when he almost dropped the ball on a throw-in! Will make sure to follow his progression! Gotta love when clubs play their own talents from the academies

@Sunflash: Shaw is better due to his experience. Jackson could easily make Shaw a backup with regular game time and performances like this. I don't know if you have noticed, but this guy could cross too. Reminds me a lot of Ashley Cole back in the day...regardless, I would like to see him and Shaw at LB for the next few years but doubt that will happen. IMO, we should sell Shaw when he still has a good market value as he is highly injury prone. Paddy McNair needs to see some game time as well. I wish Jones does not get injured, but we need a CB. Seems like him and Rojo are always injured.

@ashwin

You can't call Shaw injury prone after a leg break. Injury prone means weak muscles, half-healed messes, etc. That challenge Shaw suffered would've broken the leg of anyone in the world. It was a clean break and he should be fine for the long-term.

Shaw's pace, crossing, and reading of the game was off the charts in the time he played this season. And as good as Jackson has played, he's not even close to that. In addition, if we're going to sell Shaw, we'd have to make a gain, which we won't because we overpaid for him to begin with.

Very good thread, TheGame.

Rise, Borthwick-Jackson. Rise, youngstar.

@Sunflash I agree with you on that one, Shaw is the better of the two for me and he also seem like he has more potential but Borthwick-Jackson sound like a solid replacement for now. Also, Borthwick-Jackson is way too long, we need a nickname for that guy! :D

@Emobot7 I see what you did there ^^. [B]orthwich-[J]ackson

The guy makes good runs sometimes, but I wouldn't go as far as calling him a good player at this point in time. Once Luke Shaw is all geared up and back in his game, B.Jackson shouldn't expect to be played regularly. I haven't seen a player as good as Shaw nowadays at the back left, and for the price we paid to get him in to OT, it would be treason not to be seeing him played regularly. He's that good, imo.

@JozeMourinho BJ is approved! ;) +1

@Sunflash: Injury prone isn't just weak muscles. It also means that the player goes for rash challenges even in awkward positions. Look at Phil Jones. That dude goes into rash challenges every time, and gets injured. Shaw has been the same too. FYI, I have no problem with him. But I just don't see him staying fit for us for an extended time.

@ashwin

Ok, I can accept your definition, but Shaw doesn't go into those challenges...I'm fairly certain that both times he was injured HE was the one being tackled, not the other way around.