Donny Van De Beek | he stays!

[crossy1686]

We need some tough love - chuck him in the reserves. It won't happen though.

He's been in the reserves, he needs to be told to go and train on his own in Turkey until he finds a club.

 

[NLunited]

We need some tough love - chuck him in the reserves. It won't happen though.

Donny hasn’t done much wrong, he trains hard and performed well in pre-season. But he needs to fire his agents or listen to them. Waiting until the last minute to deal with Lorient was just stupid and disrespectful.

He needs to play regularly: that won’t happen here.

 

[Lee565]

This is all on ole, the guy frooze him out for a whole season and then instead of selling him, he decided to keep him for another season where he snubbed hik again during his final season

 

[The-Mezzala]

We need some tough love - chuck him in the reserves. It won't happen though.

I would say Maguire needs that treatment also

 

[lex talionis]

This is all on ole, the guy frooze him out for a whole season and then instead of selling him, he decided to keep him for another season where he snubbed hik again during his final season

A lot of it is on Ole, but Donny has to accept some blame as well for not adapting his game to the needs of the squad. Though to be fair, the squad was mismanaged for Donny's first two seasons and if you're in a rut for two seasons it's pretty hard to get out of that rut in the third season. Where Donny would be best deployed is in Bruno's position and Bruno is not to be displaced, although he is consistently overplayed by his managers and we see Bruno hit a wall a bit too often for my liking. But the moment Mason was signed, that was officially the end of Donny's career at United.

 

[Bwuk]

I agree on the tough love. He shouldn’t be making match day squads and told to find a club in January or play in reserves.

 

[Care_de_Bobo]

I agree on the tough love. He shouldn’t be making match day squads and told to find a club in January or play in reserves.

Pretty hard to find a club when you've barely played for 2 years. The players keep being blamed, but the club has to protect their value by actually playing them and getting performancs out of them to attract buyers. The likes of Maguire, Van de Beek, Martial and Sancho get a lot of stick, but when this kind of thing is happening repeatedly to our big money signings then it's clearly on the club more than the players.

It's not solely down to recruiting the wrong players, but how we utilise our squad. We constantly overplay our best players and fail to utilise our whole squad which leads to our fringe players' value depreciating significantly. Hopefully this is something Ten Hag has realised and can address over the next few years.

 

[golden_blunder]

Nothing transfer related.