Donny van de Beek's Agent Blasts Man Utd for Midfielder's Lack of Game Time

Donny van de Beek’s agent has criticised Manchester United for his client’s relative lack of game time since a £40m summer transfer from Ajax, insisting the team deserved to lose 7-1 to Brighton in their most recent Premier League outing.

Having scored from the bench on his debut against Crystal Palace, Van de Beek was an even later substitute against the Seagulls, appearing for the final minute of normal time plus stoppage time.

But agent Sjaak Swart isn’t impressed that Van de Beek hasn’t started a league game.

“A substitute, I don't like it at all. I couldn't do it myself, standing in with four minutes to play,” the agent told Dutch broadcaster Voetbal Primeur.

Sjaak commented on the impact that Van de Beek had when he appeared, explaining, “I have to say he did three more good things. The penalty, where the winning goal came from, it came from him.

“Normally, [United] should have lost 7-1. [Brighton] have a nice team, but that should not happen to Manchester United.”

Despite not starting in either Premier League game so far, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer preferring Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes as the team’s more attack-minded midfielders, Van de Beek did start against Luton in the Carabao Cup and will likely keep that place this week.

United face Brighton again in the fourth round of the competition on Wednesday night and Solskjaer has hinted it will be a similar team to the one that eventually saw off Luton 3-0.

“Every game lives its own life and, of course at the stage we’re at in the season with all the games coming up, I think teams are making changes,” the United boss told MUTV.

“You can see teams have a cup team and a league team and we’ll make changes. It’ll be very similar to what happened last week against Luton.”

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