DAVID MOYES SAYS Adnan Januzaj will become one of the world’s best players, having hailed him as one of the finest young players he has ever worked with.
The former Manchester United manager gave the 19-year-old his first-team debut during his sole season in charge, and Januzaj has since gone on to become a full Belgium international.
Since the appointment of Louis van Gaal, however, Januzaj has struggled for game time and is yet to complete the full 90 minutes for United this season.
Nevertheless, Moyes is effusive in his praise of the teenager and has compared the winger to a young Wayne Rooney. “Adnan Januzaj is, in my managerial time, the best young talent up there with Wayne Rooney,” Moyes told the Telegraph.
“You can see what he can become. When we had Wayne at Everton you could see the potential. Adnan Januzaj has got all that at the same age as Wayne. He’s one of the best young talents in Europe and he will go on to become one of the best players.
“When we went on tour last year he was one of the pluses. He did very well. There was a lot said about him. We came back and within a month we could not believe the change in him — he could go past people inside, outside, to the left, to the right.”
Moyes also praised Januzaj’s “arrogance,” and has backed him to scale the heights of the world game. “He had a bit of Chris Waddle about him,” he added.
“Chris Waddle used to slow you down and make you feel comfortable and before you knew it he was gone. Adnan has that. He can eliminate people.
“Yes, of course, he was young and he was going to not do it all the time but he has incredible skill, a good temperament and with the right degree of arrogance.
“Wayne was different but in the same way as we saw something special in him at Everton we saw that in Adnan Januzaj. I can only see the boy going right to the top.”
