Had nine starts under Van Gaal in two seasons... people were losing their shit about it at the time given how he was one of our star performers in the Moyes season.
He was then given zero starts by Mourinho before being flogged to La Liga.
A lot of his bad attitude rep comes from his time at Dortmund when he was accused of having his mind elsewhere ie. United.
The loan to Dortmund was a stupid idea and Sunderland wasn’t particularly great for him either given they were battling relegation.
Felt like he was never given a fair crack at it under either of our last two managers, one who was bat shit crazy and the other who never gives youth a chance.
Real Sociedad seems like the first
time in a while he’s been somewhere where he can develop and get plenty of game time. Hope he does well there.
Nah, not really, he was sent to a doghouse here alongside Pereira because they were apparently trying to score directly from corners against some team in the reserves, which pissed off quite many people, LVG included. Right, so Dortmund was not a good fit because why exactly? They were always keen on playing young players, done incredibly well in developing them, if he didn't want to be there then why did he go there in the first place? Then Sunderland not a good fit either because they were relegation fodder. Well, in this case you've got a whole lot of possibilities to be a superstar there, drag the team, make a history for yourself.
LVG was giving a chance to any youth player here, make it be Rashford or Lingard who stuck around or mediocre players like Paddy McNair or Blackett. To be fair he's even had an upper hand compared with Rashford as he was already known here by his Moyes season. If you want to complain that Mourinho was never giving the youth a chance, then you've got the polar opposite in LVG under whom a 12 year old could get a chance, yet he never managed to actually cut it under him too.
There's a trend here. Everybody's fault but Januzaj's. He was given numerous chances at numerous places but it was him who has never taken one. I wish him all the best as I hold no grudge against him, liked him as a player but let's not rewrite the history. Him not making it here was his own making.