You don't want us to have backups on the bench? Are you a Donny fan or a United fan?
What's the point of a backup if it never gets used? Sit there and collect dust (and wages)? There's no point in Donny being our club mascot. You either play or sell him Doubt he's very content with the role he has now and one thing we should learn from Pep - if a player wants to leave, you let him go, no matter how valuable he is. Just put one of the kids in his place
No, he's a flop (to date) because that describes an outcome that matches his time at the club. We can go into excuses or "reasons" which I'm sure is the correct terminology within the VDB pity society but all the arguments are circular.
I beg to differ here. If you buy a Challenger and never use it, is the car to blame for not having miles or are you? Being a "flop" would imply that he has not performed well and thus was promptly sold. But how is the lad supposed to perform were he never gets to play?
The argument isn't moot at all. Mainly because the interim manager has only been here a month or two so it is too early to write him off as lacking judgment. It also flies in the face of logic to believe that a new manager with a fresh take has come in and ignored the plight of this player that excels every day. How much smoke do you need to understand that there may be a fire with this player?
In the same vein, it's too early to say that the new manager might not fancy Donny. That same interim manager you keep using as your argument constantly says how well Donny performs in training. So explain to me the reasoning why he is not starting? And a manager who I very much rate more than our current one, rates Donny very highly and he was an integral part in his Ajax team that would destroy our team no problem. When you talk about managers, why are you not accounting for Ten Hag's opinion who rates Donny very highly?
And this is the reason why I gave the example with Vinicius. Zidane didn't care much about him, Ancelotti entrusted him. You would have probably said the same thing against Vinicius that you are saying against Donny. The result is that now Vinicius is now one of the most exciting young prospects in the world.
Donny hasn't earnt anything. In your eyes maybe, not in the opinion of many others including the man that actually matters.
All I know is that this team is suffering greatly when it comes to the midfield. Every match it gets bypassed by the most average of players and teams. We have a player who has put in decent performances this season and has given us in those games what RR likes to talk about "control", yet we don't utilize him? Forget that, we don't even give him a chance to prove if he is capable or not. He just rots on the bench. He isn't even used as an option when Fred or McT, for example, are tired. Even when they get injured or red carded, Matic is the choice for replacement despite the fact that an 80 years old grandma can probably pass Matic by. That's horrible man management and you cannot convince me that Donny would somehow be worse. And even if we somehow pretend he would be, it is still worth giving it a chance and seeing rather than continue with the same ol' same ol' were we make teams like Norwich look like prime Barcelona.
My idea isn't to let the ship sink but it's also not to get attached to players for no reason, I care about the right decision not the VDB story. If McTominay and Fred are shit but I know that VDB is worse from my vantage point as manager then no I don't just throw him in. I don't just throw shit at the wall. I presume the manager will be trying to analyse what is going wrong, where the solutions lie in a pragmatic and reasoned way. Throwing in a raft of academy graduates or anybody who isn't currently getting a game is the preserve of forum dwellers not a football manager at the top of the game.
I couldn't care less about Donny as a person. All I care about is the betterment of the club and team. And right now I see Donny as an option to improve the team that is not being utilized. As I've already told you, neither I or anyone here will complain about Donny if we had an actual working midfield, but we don't. We're absolute dogshit in that area. Worse than bottom relegation teams. So it's time for something to change. The hell do you get this "VDB is worse" shit anyway? You're acting like Rangick and Ole are infallible when they are anything but. Ole got rightly sacked (much too late, btw) and it doesn't appear Rangnick would get an important consultancy role at the end of the season if results continue. As far as playing kids and what not, sometimes it's for the best. Do you need reminding in the history of this football club?