Manchester United have been running the rule over five Brazilian starlets this week.
The quintet have arrived from United's Brazilian partner club Desportivo Brasil.
The Daily Mail says confidentiality agreements prevent Desportivo Brasil from revealing which of their 100-plus teenagers have a pre-contract agreement with United, but it' been revealed that the five players who were spotted at Old Trafford are called Gladstony, Aguilar, Lucas Evangelista, Agnaldo and Rafael Leao.
The five are now visiting Dutch champions Twente, who United plan to use as a holding club for the boys to gain European Union passports.
Striker Aguilar, who was 16 a fortnight ago but was called up by Brazil’s Under 17 squad for training in January.
Aguilar was signed by Belo Horizonte side Cruzeiro in 2009. However, because contracts are not valid before a player’s 16th birthday, Desportivo Brasil were able to take him to Porto Feliz a year ago, prompting an angry reaction from Cruzeiro president Zeze Perrella.
Aguilar’s former coach Joao Paulo Tardim said: "There is no doubt about his quality. Saying he will become a great player is an exercise in predicting the future, but the chances of it happening are very high."
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