Former Machester United and Liverpool midfielder Paul Ince has accused United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer of 'taking the p***' out of Donny van de Beek at the club.
The Dutch midfielder has struggled to get game time at United since arriving from Ajax last summer.
Van de Beek is often a late substitute in Premier League and Champions League games, when he has minimal time to impact the game in a positive way.
"Donny van de Beek gets four minutes against Atalanta. What worries me is the choices Ole makes," Ince told The United Stand.
"This is a player who Ole said, 'come to Old Trafford, you're going to start in my team, you'll cost £40 million, you're going to be the centre hub of the midfield'.
"This is what he said and Donny thought, 'f*** me, this is my dream, this is what I've been waiting for'.
"Two years down the line he's on the bench. Ole's actually taken the p*** out of him.
"Not only has he taken the p*** out of him, he gives him four minutes against Atalanta and then goes, 'oh by the way, here's your chance, go and have 10 minutes against Manchester City where we've not touched the ball for 85 minutes and show me what you can do'.
"If I'm Donny van de Beek I would've said, 'f*** that, I'm not going on now, you want me to go on for 10 minutes when we haven't touched the ball for 88 minutes?'. Now you're taking the p*** out of him even more.
"It's decisions like that baffle me, they really do. I don't understand.
"He stopped Jesse Lingard from going to West Ham because he said he'll be part of his team. You're 2-0 down and you don't bring him on.
"You see the situation with Pogba now, he's starting to get sent off all the time, all that is starting to flare up again. He'll be gone by the end of the season."
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