In Manchester United's away win over Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League, although Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has changed sides, Dutch midfielder Van de Beek is still unable to get a chance to play. Even if the team took a 3-0 lead in the end, the substitute players were Nemanja Matic and Jesse Lingard, and the Netherlands international once again sat on the cold bench for 90 minutes. Not only that, but an arrangement before the Manchester league made fans feel unfair to Van de Beek.
Bruno Fernandez remained United's starting midfielder for this match, forming a 352 midfield trio with McTomine and Fred. Van de Beek is one of seven substitutes, and it is customary that pre-match substitutes warm up on the pitch along with the starters. However, a fan filmed van der Beek, who had warmed up with other substitutes, but was later summoned by the coaching staff to the box, cameo coaching, passing the ball to the starting teammates and letting them practice shooting.
In the video, the Manchester United fan who accompanied the team to the Tottenham Stadium filmed the 24-year-old Van der Beek responsible for passing the ball to his teammates and letting them get up to attack the goal, which was the duty of the coach. This arrangement of having Van de Beek as a "sparring partner" made the audience complain about the former Ajax core, calling out that the way the club treated him was unacceptable.
The fan said: "I feel like I'm going to cry for Van der Beek and The way United treated him was not kind. We all thought it was disgusting and he deserved better treatment."
In fact, the British media revealed that not only fans sympathized with Van der Beek, but also Manchester United teammates have also advised him, and at everyone's suggestion, he changed his agent in order to win the transfer to leave. It is rumored that after the start of the winter transfer in January next year, if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is still in charge of Manchester United, van der Beek will choose to leave the team 100%. Everton, Wolves, Barca, Real Madrid and other teams are quite concerned about his situation.
But according to the Manchester Evening News, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insisted he was not "hiding" or "abandoning" Van der Beek, but because the new signing, who joined last year for £39 million, has not yet reached the level of starting for the first team. So if he wants to be a regular for Manchester United, he has to keep trying to improve.
Before the start of the season, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer refused to let Van de Beek leave the team and promised to increase his playing time, but has not yet fulfilled his promise. The 24-year-old van der Beek has not played for the team for more than a month and has not played a second in the last six games. Since September 2020, Van der Beek has only started four times in the Premier League. According to the data, the Netherlands international has a total of 25 times on the bench, but ultimately missed to play.
As a result, a "heat map of the activity in van der Beek's game" was also created, and the area was in the bench bench and technical area. But I don't know if it's a satire on the Dutch midfielder himself, or manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Solskjaer has experimented with seven different midfield combinations this season, but has never tried to give Van de Beek a chance. The manager also insisted that no one had offered van der Beek: "We never received an offer from Everton and in my opinion, he is a Manchester United player. Downey (Van de Beck) is still working on it, and I understand Downey, he's annoyed and disappointed that he can't play, but he still continues to train hard every day with a big smile."