Good to see he's forged a decent career for himself.
Was highly rated in that youth team, and many touted him to be a United regular eventually. Shows why fans need to be careful when they make comments like 'Give Tunicliffe a chance, he can't be much worse than x' or 'We don't need another CM, as we've Tunicliffe coming through' . If a player is good enough, the majority of times they will get a chance to prove it, especially at a club like United. There's not been many youth players we've let go who we should have kept. Every 1-2 years we have a claim for these youth players to be good enough, and to be promoted instead of signing a new player.
Pique was on the fringes of the first-team at the time, and starting games, easy to see why he left as he was behind the 2 best CB's in the world, and had the lure of his boyhood club coming in for him. Pogba was more his agent and him angling for a move.