I dont think anybody expects him to be a revliation. I just don't forsee him being any worse. He deserves a chance of a proper run in the side before being dumped abroad and reignite his career.
The few times we've seen him in CM he's performed absolutely fine, if anything he gives us a much different option to the ones we have already. He has the best/most consistent short passing range of all our midfielders IMO.
The issue is Ole just doesn't care about retaining possession. What he looks for in a midfielder is old school off the ball abilities.
Yeah, like most, I'd like to see more of him so we can gauge what he has to offer.
I'd say his appearances have been ok, pretty average if were being honest, but not bad (and certainly no worse than the rest of the midfield this season), but granted they are such a small sample size that we cannot let him go at this point. Up until this season where almost every player to a man has been woeful I think I understood why Ole couldn't give him many minutes, but the midfield has been so poor this season that he would have expected to get more minutes for sure. Ole just doesn't trust him to improve the issues we have in the pivot and for obvious reasons won't drop Bruno.
I don't think the club want to let him go, particularly because any new manager may well want to utilise a player with Donny's abilities. I think we will see him this weekend, hopefully he makes an impact and offers us something different, for what it's worth I like him and his attitude to try and make a difference when he is on the pitch.
I've suggested it a few times but I would like to see us push Bruno up as a false 9 off Ronaldo and player a flatter midfield 3 to include Donny. Provided the fullbacks can give us some width. Then sub on the likes of Rashford/Sancho/Greenwood/Cavani where required. We are desperate for some control in midfield and structure to our play and the current system isn't working for us/Ole.