Three Manchester City youngsters are training with the first team ahead of their Premier League trip to Brighton. Pep Guardiola asked for Reigan Heskey, Ryan McAidoo and Divine Mukasa as the Blues start preparations for Sunday's game.

It meant that Ben Wilkinson was without the academy trio as the Under-21s headed to Oldham in the EFL Trophy, with the game ending in a 5-1 win. However, it bodes well for the young attackers as they look to put themselves into the first team picture.

Mukasa was the only youngster to be involved with the first team over summer after Guardiola made the decision not to take any academy players to the Club World Cup. With four summer signings through the door and a manager already unhappy at the bloated nature of his squad, the academy players missed o

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