Five Manchester City youngsters who could enjoy breakout summers during pre-season tour - gallery

The group that travelled to America is made up mainly of underage players.

Manchester City’s travelling squad has been named for this summer’s tour of the USA.

With the majority of the first-team group missing, even the most passionate of City supporters can be forgiven for knowing only a handful of names in the 27-man roster.

Jack Grealish, Erling Haalaand and Ederson are the most high-profile additions, while Stefan Ortega, Rico Lewis, Kalvin Phillips and Oscar Bobb all played for Pep Guardiola’s first team last season. Scott Carson, Joshua Wilson-Esbrand, James McAtee and Maximo Perrone are also deemed first-team players, but are very much on the periphery.

Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic are set to meet up with the group at a later date, but 14 players who were at Euro 2024 or the Copa America won’t play any part in America. It means several youngsters are likely to be given the opportunity to play in friendlies against Celtic, AC Milan, Barcelona and Chelsea.

That could be an intriguing prospect given the plethora of talent City have in their youth ranks and they are regular winners at Under-21 and Under-18 levels, with the latter winning the FA Youth Cup last season.

But which youngsters could be the breakthrough stars this summer and even possibly force their way into Guardiola’s plans?

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