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David Moyes compared Adnan Januzaj to Wayne Rooney as the finest young talent he has seen and believes the 19-year-old will go on to become one of Europe's top players. Former Manchester United manager Moyes gave Januzaj his debut in last season's Community Shield and promoted him ahead of more experienced players. And the 51-year-old Scot, who was in charge of Everton when Rooney came through the youth system at Goodison Park, saw similarities with another teenage prodigy. Moyes told the Daily Telegraph: "Adnan Januzaj is, in my managerial time, the best young talent up there with Wayne Rooney. 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 tended to use Januzaj, who has opted to play international football for Belgium, on the flanks and compared him to an England winger of the 1980s and 1990s. He added: "He had a bit of Chris Waddle about him. 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."
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