Donny van de Beek’s struggles at Manchester United this season have actually been well-broadcast.
The Dutchman, who was signed from Ajax final summer time, has solely gone on to make 12 begins in all competitions for the Purple Devils since his arrival, scoring only a solitary aim and offering only one help.
Is Donny van de Beek a Manchester United flop?
Positively, he is been garbage.
No, he is nonetheless supplied one thing.
That’s actually not the output that Ed Woodward or Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would have been anticipating or anticipating from a participant who has now and again been talked up as “excellent” by former Purple Devils midfielder Owen Hargreaves.
That poor kind has now and again seen his signing known as into query. Nevertheless, an actual indicator is the sheer quantity of funds that United seem to have wasted on Van de Beek.
Rated as excessive as £49.5m by Transfermarkt in December 2019, the £35.7m price that United then agreed with Ajax might have been perceived as a discount.
Nonetheless, the 23-year-old’s score has dropped even beneath that all through his Previous Trafford profession with Van de Beek now rated as little as £31.5m – an enormous fall of £18m since his peak.
Contemplating that the substantial dip has occurred in only a year-and-a-half, it actually signifies how little of an impression the Dutchman has had since his arrival at Previous Trafford.
While it’s considerably too early to label Van de Beek as an outright failure at Manchester United, the dramatic fall in his switch score coupled together with his peripheral involvement on the membership ought to actually be a fear for the Purple Devils and particularly Ed Woodward.
It stays to be seen whether or not he will likely be afforded extra alternatives between now and the top of the season, however the 19-cap Dutch worldwide will certainly be eager to get better his fame sooner reasonably than later.
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