MU BEAUTY! HOW TEEN IS DRIVEN TO SUCCEED

AS most City training sessions end, two figures are generally left out on the pitch.

- By SIMON BAJKOWSKI

One is assistant coach Kolo Toure, and the other is 18-year-old attacker Divine Mukasa.

The teenager has been with Pep Guardiola and his senior squad for the majority of this campaign, dipping down to play in academy games to keep his match fitness before usually returning to test himself against the best again.

Despite having slogged it out against stars who are stronger and quicker than he is, Mukasa wants more so his former coach from the Under-18s Toure sets up some extra finishing practice to make sure those shooting boots are as sharp as they need to be. Toure spoke last week about how he tells Erling Haaland what centre-backs will hate playing against, although he also doesn’t mind telling the players that he made his debut as a striker.

Mukasa's debut came up front as well, in a League Cup match at Huddersfield this season where he set up Phil Foden for the opening goal and showed many of the qualities that Pep Guardiola wants. He had already been a permanent fixture in first team training by then, and the manager has raved to staff about a youngster who has put himself on the fast-track since moving from West Ham two years ago and instantly making an impression.