As Donny van de Beek battles to be fit for the final week of Everton's battle for Premier League survival, there might be knowing nods from successive Manchester United managers who doubted his ability to cope with the demands of the English game.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ralf Rangnick both ignored the claims of Van de Beek for a place in a misfiring United midfield and both held similar concerns about his physicality in the centre of the pitch in the Premier League.
A January loan move to Everton was an ideal chance for Van de Beek to prove them wrong, but he's not played in two months now and has made the bench for only one of the Toffees' previous nine Premier League as he battles niggling injuries.
