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Van de Beek to Frankfurt | Loan with no mandatory buy option.
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Feck it, at least its £2m less that we’re not paying him.
I wonder what had really happened to him. When we bought him, he was one of the brightest midfield prospects. I thought he just didnt fit into the tactics of the past managers and he could have resurrected under his ex boss who knew him very well. But even his ex boss is using Mctominay over him now, it just doesnt add up. He doesn't seem to be lazy or unprofessional to me as compared to some other players.
Wish him the best nevertheless.
Wish him the best nevertheless.
Some players just can't make that big step up.
Romano overrules, it's like top trumps
No, it means in two years time we will pay £80+ million to bring him back.
One of the biggest wastes of space I’ve seen in my time as a United supporter and that’s saying something. He’ll leave and barely a single person will give a shit or even really remember he played for us in a year or two.
Best of luck Donny. See you in June.
Should be a permanent move, which will hopefully happen in the summer. He was a bad signing, and it was clear early on that he was never going to make it here, but I don’t get the hate - he can hardly be blamed for our underperforming team over the last few years seeing as he’s hardly ever played. The blame should go to whoever approved the signing in the first place.
He never played poorly. He just didn't really play. Always seemed to have good touches and play decent passes in the few minutes he got.
A real mystery as to how he never really kicked on here. Wish him all the best.
He never was one of the brightest midfield prospects. A bit of a copy of Klaassen who was not able to cut it at Everton.
Absolute waste that we bought him and a testament of the dire state of our transfer department.
Wish him all the best and I think he can be useful for a mid table club in a bigger competition, but never good enough for us.
Baffling
I mean he was literally one of ETH’s best players at Ajax and he can’t even get a kick under him here its all so odd
I mean he was literally one of ETH’s best players at Ajax and he can’t even get a kick under him here its all so odd
Best of luck with to him. I hope for everyone's sake he gives a good account of himself there which can lead to a permanent transfer there or elsewhere. Clear that he's just not cut out for it in England but he could still be a very good player elsewhere.
Talksport just now reported that he does have a buy clause at the end of the loan should they want to make it permanent
Just checked and he played 62 times in 3.5 years for United and we paid £30m for the privilege. Absolute shambles of a transfer.
"For me 35m is a lot of money." He knew himself that he had conned his way to Old Trafford.
Shocked he played as many as 62 times. Feels like a lot fewer
Not really baffling. He's an attacking midfielder who's nowhere near Bruno's level with the latter being an availability freak too...it was never going to work out.
Good luck to him. He’s actually a decent guy. Didn’t kick up a fuss despite never starting. Just got on with it. Deserves to be playing somewhere else
I mean he's started like 6 games in 3 years that's not because Bruno is a better CAM
Let’s change that narrative; he never conned anyone. He played football and we bought him
Another thing that goes down to the recruitment team. Wasting money on a guy that can’t start in his preferred position. It’s ashame he couldn’t fit in at CM because he’s a better player than Mctominay yet he keeps starting.
It’s more because he can’t play any of the CM roles.
Most bizarre transfer for United in a long time. It's weird how he has barely gotten a chance to do anything here. I realize Bruno plays his position, but surely there would be various midfield combination, where he could be fitted in. I guess he must have been quite bad in training or something.
Best we can hope for is to get some of the transfer fee back, when we offload him.
Best we can hope for is to get some of the transfer fee back, when we offload him.
What does VdB have other than off-ball movement and link-up play?
McTominay offers more, it's just controversial to state it right now because we are in a crisis.
Be surprised if he plays more than 5 or 6 games
Couldn't really get a game at Everton when he went there
Couldn't really get a game at Everton when he went there
He did and he played quite well, he just got injured.
Excellent servant to the club
All the best
All the best
€15m buy option sounds pretty steep by Frankfurt's standards:
The fee for Jovic was a buy option they exercised in order to sell him to Real the very next day, so Donny would be their most expensive transfer ever in a way.
The fee for Jovic was a buy option they exercised in order to sell him to Real the very next day, so Donny would be their most expensive transfer ever in a way.
Bruno didn't strictly play as CAM also. And then, we bought Jason Mount who's almost similar type of player.
I totally forgot we had sent him there.
Basically another player who will have his contract run out here.€15m buy option sounds pretty steep by Frankfurt's standards:
The fee for Jovic was a buy option they exercised in order to sell him to Real the very next day, so Donny would be their most expensive transfer ever in a way.
He started well for the first game or two. From memory his form had already dropped right off before his injury. In saying that, he'd barely played for 18 months and he only got 6 games before the injury, so maybe he would have played himself into some form given a bit more time.
One of the worst player I've seen at United...
Hope we don't see him again.
Hope we don't see him again.
He’ll be back in June
I wish we'd bought Jason Mount instead of Mason Mount, probably would have featured more.
Bye Donny, don't come back
I think most people would do that if they were in his shoes. He's reportedly earning around €7m p.a. right? Even if he shows great performances there they'd probably offer him around half of that.