Manchester United manager David Moyes has insisted that summer signing Marouane Fellaini needs time to settle in at Old Trafford.
Fellaini has failed to reproduce the performances that earned him a £27.5m move to the Premier League champions, and Moyes believes that the Belgium international can have a "bigger influence" at the club.
The 50-year-old told Manchester Evening News: "I think that we are yet to see him properly. I think that he can be a bigger influence, but he will be fine for us. He knows that he can play better. I think that when he came into the team, we were not playing as well as we would have hoped.
"There have been a couple of games where I thought that he threatened to be that big influence. I thought in the opening part of the game against Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukraine, he was an influence and made the goal for Danny Welbeck.
"There have been moments where he has threatened to become that influence but I think maybe being booked in some of the games has taken a bit of that away but there have been signs. We have to give him a chance to get bedded in well enough and for us probably to be playing well enough to accommodate him."
Fellaini has scored once in 15 appearances since his transfer from Everton.
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