Donny van de Beek | van de Beek's father: "[Moving to United] a dream come true."
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I'm pleasantly surprised by how quick we completed this deal. Just 3 days ago there were no strong links at all. Love these out of the blue signings.
Good news. For that price i prefer this deal to 80 million for Grealish.
A classy club to be honest.
Dortmund should learn from them.
Mourinho was after Donny? Can't see it. He is not 34 years old, not 6 meter tall.
True, they are known for it. When Ajax buys or extends a player they will also make a deal with Overmars to let them go for less money to a club they desire. They did the same with Ziyech. I do not have a source for this but they have done this for years.
Which is why people claiming the Sancho deal is dead is so laughably naive.
Yup it does, but still people on here refuse to believe it...
OGS probably told him "do not worry Donny, the team will play 4-1-2-1-2"
fecking Jose
Sweet 
Very good news to top off the weekend.
Very good news to top off the weekend.Few things I like about this
- For 40 million we appear to be getting a huge upgrade over Periera and Lingard.
- He's a player from the Ajax school of football so his fundamentals and ideas will be solid whatever his natural abilities may be.
- He seems to be a modern midfielder capable of quick thinking, energetic terrier like precessing etc which hopefully helps us move to a more progressive style of play
Typical Mourinho. Literally, it's his modus operandi to go steal his previous club's signings at the 11th hour (or a rival like with Fred).Feck off Mourinho
Overhyped in terms of price, ability or both?
Fans would be a lot more excited if the agreed price was 90 million euros. The fact that hes an absolute bargain is a shock. You do not get players of this quality for that cheap!
About time we added some Dutch class in the ranks. Midfield is starting to look full of options now for a long season ahead. On to the next target which I hope is bloody Sancho.
Maybe not immediately, but you never know. He's even younger than McTominay!
Must be about time to compile a list of clubs and guess how much we'll receive for him when we try and get rid of him when he's our latest roaring failure of a signing.
Why are all the mods sleeping? No change in the title?
Very happy we’re continuing to target younger players that could be around for a while. We have the outline of a team that could be around for 4 or 5 years. If we can get to the point where each summer we can focus on one or two high quality additions, instead of having to bulk buy each season, we’ll be in a great position.
The Mirror is such a pathetic outlet - recycling stories from Dutch media as exclusives
I think Mctominay's game time will be reduced the most in the short term. Fred and Matic will rotate in the DM spot, and Van de Beek will be the first change option for both, Pogba and Bruno.
Not getting my hopes up until I see an unveiling or at least and official statement from Utd. We had the whole 'personal terms agreed' ' player wants to come' etc and all the same messages regarding Sancho and look how that turned out.
What's the price? A signing at last!
Whats the point?
Ajax reached a UCL SF more recently than Dortmund and win their league every year but you've missed my point entirely anyway
I like the lack of haggling, there's a really good relationship with Ajax, so might as well not place any bids well below their expected value.
And Sanchez too! He was about to move to City.
He does not need to. We can't rely on 2 midfielders to play every single match in the whole season. Especially coming season, which will be more packed together than ever.
I am not sure Donny wil manage to keep up, but you can't get around the fact that he is very hard working, does have a lot of skill and depth in his game (maybe even a bit to much, but that was at Ajax) and is only 23 years old while having a good bag of experience. It will at least improve our quality in midfield as soon as Pogba or Fernandes are not available or in need of a rest.
Out of those 7 there's probably only 1 or 2 that would get into any other top 6 club. We need a quality CB to team up with Harry
Spot on! We're actually set for great things in 2 to 3 years if we keep progressing. Should be peaking while the current lords of the manor are rebuilding.
Maybe people will stop thinking that United are totally inept and actually be happy for once?
Or are we still going to keep banging that drum?
Well happy for this signing and hope it’s one of many
Or are we still going to keep banging that drum?
Well happy for this signing and hope it’s one of many
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If we are in contact with them anyways, might as well just pick up Tagliafico as well. Williams was absolutely crap last few matches and Shaw can use some real competition/back-up. Tagliafico is not to expensive.
Looks like 40m. Great business.
What number will he wear? I think 16
We have 2 domestic cup competitions we need fillers for too. Basically a game every 3 or 4 days for 9 months.
There will be loads on injuries. Plenty of games to go round for all.
Up to each player now to impress the coaches and get game time. If they can’t, ship them out.
Fred is just a far better play than McTomminay though so this doesn't make sense.
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