Former Manchester United youth team coach Paul McGuinness believes that Michael Keane compares favourably with the Germany and Bayern Munich defender Mats Hummels and that his former club should endeavour to re-sign him this summer.

McGuinness left United in February 2016, after working in the club’s academy for 23 years and is widely credited with aiding the development of scores of players to emerge at Old Trafford, including, Darren Fletcher, Jesse Lingard, Paul Pogba and more recently Marcus Rashford.

Keane, made a graceful England debut against Germany on Wednesday evening and was a peer of Pogba and Lingard’s on the last occasion that United, under McGuinness’s tutelage, won the FA Youth Cup in 2011.

He was then allowed to join Burnley in 2014, becoming, according to McGuinness, an ”unfortunate” casualty of the post Sir Alex Ferguson years.

“Sir Alex could give a young player a game and there was no pressure on him, where as the other managers (David Moyes and Louis van Gaal) were under pressure so they couldn't do it as much,” McGuinness said.