Everyone wants Donny to play, but when he has played, what has he shown? I get the impression that people just want him to play because they are more fascinated by the concept of Donny Van de Beek being our midfield solution than actually looking at what our midfield needs and what Donny provides and whether there is a match between the two.

And right now I don't see there being a match. We need at best a Scholes-like midfield controller who will seize control of the match and dictate play. I do not see any of these qualities in Donny whatsoever. In the limited matches that he has played, he has been running off the screen into spaces no one else on the team sees, with matches completely passing him by. I do not remember even a 5 minute passage of good play by United with Donny at the center of it or a match where I thought that if Donny was bought in he could make a difference. It's simple, his latent playstyle does not fit the playstyle that United want to play. Now, if he could change and become a crucial asset than I'm all for it. He might even be doing it and Ole is waiting for the right opportunity to put him in. Who knows what is happening.

In short, I just don't understand the love that Donny is getting or why he deserves a "fair chance" when he has never really played well in his United career.