FA Youth Cup winners Vladimir Weiss and Ben Mee are tipped to make a first team breakthrough under Manchester City boss Mark Hughes this season.

"I am young enough to still have that energy and drive not just to drive a team but also a club," Hughes declared.

"I want to be able to build from within. I have seen it happen with older managers where that determination to drive a club forward as a whole isn't there because it saps their energy and what they do on the training pitch and on a match day becomes enough for them.

"I think I am young enough and have enough energy to be involved in every part of what we do here.

"The Academy is part of that and it is first-class. The quality of the players it has produced in recent years suggests there is very little wrong with what the operation is doing at the moment.

"I like to give youth its chance and I know that City fans, like to see 'their own' coming through.

"Those players have a real empathy with the club. They regard it as 'theirs' and they desperately want to play. If you get a nucleus of players like that together then they have something extra."