Donny van de Beek has admitted he was left questioning everything when Manchester United sent him on loan to Eintracht Frankfurt last season.
Voetbal Primeur cover comments from the Dutchman today in which he explains how much of a disaster the loan spell proved to be.
The 27-year-old is now at Girona and working his way back after joining the Spanish side in a €500,000 deal from Manchester United in the summer.
That move brought an end to a miserable four year stay at Old Trafford after he joined the Red Devils in a €39m move from Ajax in September 2020.
He never really settled under a succession of managers at the club and eventually found himself being shipped out on loan, first to Everton in January 2022 and then Eintracht Frankfurt in January 2024.
Neither of those moves proved to be the right ones for him, with him managing just eight appearances and 357 minutes in total for the Germans and seven appearances totalling 483 minutes for the Toffees.
The move to the Bundesliga was seen as ideal at the time but proved to be disastrous, and the former Manchester United man has explained what was going on behind the scenes.
“I came from so far away, needed rhythm and a series of matches, but that was simply not possible. The result was that I started to drive myself crazy. I had to show what I could do in a match, which meant I went way too much. doing, and passed myself by,” he said.
“In addition, my home situation was anything but pleasant. Estelle was heavily pregnant, and we decided that she would stay in England for the birth. My daughter together with her.
“She in Manchester, I in Germany. I was there on my own in Frankfurt. My family in England, things weren’t going well with football. I thought During that period sometimes really: What am I doing?
“If you play so little, you also lose confidence. That starts to eat away at you, and that’s not good as a player.”
