Donny van de Beek has to stay with Ajax for another year. That is the opinion of Henk Spaan, who in the case of a transfer finds Real Madrid a better option than Manchester United.
“Where are we going to see Donny run box-to-box next season?” Spaan wonders in his column for Het Parool. “It is a calculation that has nothing to do with money. The sum, made up of variables, ends with the result: playing time. I don’t know a flute about mathematics, otherwise I could write something like talent: competition = playing time. ‘
Spaan sees the most opportunities in Spain for Van de Beek. ‘At Real Madrid, Modric gasps, Kroos visibly loses interest and Isco is not a professional. Only Valverde and Casemiro can be taken seriously. Here Donny would certainly get playing time, but does he want such an easy sum? In midfield in Manchester, Pogba, Fernandes, James, Matic, Fred and McTominay fight for a starting place. In every system that is a brain teaser, especially in the 4-2-3-1 desired by Solskjaer. ‘
Ajax may well become the smiling third, Spaan thinks. ‘The solution = simple: Donny stays with Ajax as a big man. “Another year, another year, Donny another year,” all of them. “
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