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Is this why Solskjaer chose to sign someone like Van de Beek from Ajax?

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Manchester United have completed the signing of midfielder Donny van de Beek and according to Dutch football expert Marcel van der Kraan, Solskjaer wants the 23-year-old to be an attacking threat next season.

He told Sky Sports News: “I think Donny has learnt in the Ajax academy to play everywhere on the pitch.

“Of course, he concentrates on the midfield but he is very versatile.

“They learn at Ajax from a very young age that they have to play left-back, right-wing etc, and in that midfield, he can almost play everywhere.

“His strength, though, and I think Solskjaer has put this to him, is getting in the box. He’s got massive stamina, he’s got an eye for goal and he’s got loads of assists.

“I think in that Champions League year where Ajax got to the semi-finals he proved his point that, ‘I can play at the top level, I can do this at Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona’, and he has his chance now at Old Trafford.”

Donny van de Beek is a typical box-to-box midfielder and this is something that Man United have lacking for quite some time now.

While the likes of Pogba and Fernandes are brilliant going forward but the same cannot be said about their defensive abilities.

So it will indeed be interesting to see how the Man United manager opts to use Van de Beek when they return to action in the Premier League on the 19th of September against Crystal Palace.

Will he be handed the defensive midfielder’s role or will it be Paul Pogba who will be deployed a bit further down the pitch?

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