I don't see 'it' with Andreas I'm afraid. I would love him to prove him wrong. However, whenever I watch him I am left feeling that he will never be good enough for Man Utd.
The issue is not his ability its his decision making. I think the speed of the elite game is too much for him. When he has time to take a few touches and consider what he wants to do he has the ability to do it. The problem is that, at the highest level of European football, you never get that time. Its one thing doing it against a tiring and mentally beaten LASK team (and even last night there were times when he held on to the ball too long and squandered our territorial advantage). Its another when you're playing in the Premier League and players are flying at you before you can think of what to do next.
I don't think Andreas is a player for the best leagues, and I think his unremarkable time at Valencia reflects that. Maybe if he played somewhere where the game was less hustle, bustle and there was less closing down, his natural ability would see him enjoy a very good career? That won't be in England, Spain, Italy or Germany IMO.
We should never have renewed his contract. It was unfair on him. He is now playing with expectations on his head that he does not have the capacity to get close to matching. Had we let him go on a freebie he might have found another club, in another league, far more suited to him and been able to really enjoy his football. Instead he's become a figure of pity/fun because we're wanting him to do more than he's capable of.