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Manchester United the striker always had his critics, but no one doubts him now after prolific form
This article is part of the Guardian’s Euro 2020 Experts’ Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 24 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from two countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June.
When Memphis Depay was named biggest talent of the Dutch Eredivisie in 2015, his price was a Cruyff court (a very neat artificial grass court from the Cruyff Foundation), built wherever he liked. Eventually Depay decided it should be put in Moordrecht, the small rural village where he grew up. Depay said into a microphone during the opening in the summer of 2019: “I was always out here on the pitches, always playing football; you see the result.”