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How Dennis Bergkamp launched Donny van de Beek on his Manchester United journey

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straight to your inboxWhen a young player is coming through the academy at Ajax he is rarely short of a club legend to turn to for advice and inspiration.

For Donny van de Beek, his first big break came at joining the club and going straight into the Under-10s team coached by Dennis Bergkamp.

The former Ajax and Arsenal attacker was a master at working in the spaces of a game, of finding the gaps between the midfield and the defence to pull the strings.As he began his coaching career in the Ajax academy, a young Van de Beek caught his attention.

He saw a similar ability to manipulate space and work in those areas of the pitch where, somehow, the markers just disappeared.Bergkamp was so impressed he urged Ruben Jongkind, who was then working.

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