Eight years can feel like a lifetime in football. In 2014 Louis van Gaal was talking up the merits of signing players for Manchester United from Holland, while this summer he's been warning his Netherlands internationals about the risks of moving to Old Trafford.
United's transfer strategy under their second Dutch manager this summer isn't hard to decipher. There is a thread running through all of their targets and that is experience of life in the Eredivisie.
Frenkie de Jong fired himself onto the world stage through his performances at Ajax and has since spent three years at Barcelona before his expected switch to United.
