Unbelievable

He's 20 years old, scores goals for fun and he has a better scoring record in Belgium than Romelu Lukaku. That makes me excited. Wait, wasn't Lukaku like 16 years old when he played in the Belgian league?

Ronaldo's man crush for Shawcross is well strange, somewhat creepy even.

Fuck off

At the risk of sounding like Ronaldo, but a one in two record in Belgium isn't really all that impressive. Plus the guy looks like he would be worthless without proper service from wide areas.

Ings on a free was the one I wanted most, but I agree there don't seem to be many standout candidates in our range. Austin is best of the rest for me.

Sorry, meant to say forwards. Berbatov is another good example however.

I'm not sure if I want him tbh, partly because of what I've read about his personality, but also because I don't think his record is all that impressive and neither are the Dennis Wise scouting vids I've seen. On top of that I can't really think of many Eastern European forwards who have done well in the PL, Dzeko aside. They seem a better fit to Italy in general somehow.

Considering he wasn't apparently a regular at Forest anyway I would be surprised if he would be a starting centre back already. Better to ease him in over the next season imo.

Love how he said "bigger than Feyenoord" (De Kuip) about SJP

Phonetically more like Wine Ahl Durm

Never thought he would seriously entertain foming to us. Well chuffed! Hopefully the start of a proper recruitment drive that also addresses the key weaknesses in our squad.

Huge Newcastle fan yet wants to go to Portugal

Three of them (already) play professional football too.

McClardvew out!

Newcashul New Castel tbh

Second rate? Well yes, a squad full of Krul's, Janmaat's, De Jong's, Anita's and Wijnaldum's without your Robben's or Sneijder's wouldn't get you to a World Cup final and semi final in all honesty.

Bah, our club is getting all the second rate Dutch players and all of yous couldn't be more delighted because at least they know how to trap a ball and have a bit of intelligence and style about them. Pretty soon you will all be wanting Holland to win the Euros again.

Fuck off

I'm not complaining. I just think there are players of similar quality, or who could be better in time, in Holland available for less. Doesn't mean I'm not really happy about this deal provided we follow it up by bringing in at the very least a striker and a centre back.

Isn't he rated to be the better than Depay as well? Not even close So how good is he? Well, to my mind Memphis Depay, who is 4 years younger, is already a better player and has the potential to become Van Persie/Robben level. Wijnaldum on the other hand is what I would classify as a fairly solid squad player at international level for Holland. For me, he probably wouldn't have been a starter in Brazil, and I think he was often the weak link when he played. Probably a similar level to Cabaye and Sissoko for me. He was very highly rated when he was younger iirc? Who? Wijnaldum? Never as highly as Depay. He moved from Feyenoord to PSV for 3m at around the same age as Depay moves to Man U for 30m. Not in comparison to Depay but Wijnaldum would always have been a pretty well known young player on some of the Dutch underage teams Of course. I will also say this: as far as I know he has never had any serious injury problems and his mentality is spot on. Apart from maybe overpaying a little and it perhaps not being a position of urgent need this looks like a very good signing indeed, which hopefully will not be to the detriment of other signings we require. Signing will mean absolutely nothing if it's not followed up with other quality signings of positions we require. Overpaying for a player of this calibre from Holland I think we'd all agree seems a good deal on the surface. If he was English, what's the price then? Doesn't even bear thinking about. Fair point. However I think Jordy Clasie will go for half as much (as a Schneiderlin replacement at Southampton?) and is of similar quality, albeit a bit more defensive. In the attacking midfield/winger positions you have the likes of Ziyech and Boetius who would probably command even less and could turn out to be better, although they are not quite as good as Wijnaldum today.

Isn't he rated to be the better than Depay as well? Not even close So how good is he? Well, to my mind Memphis Depay, who is 4 years younger, is already a better player and has the potential to become Van Persie/Robben level. Wijnaldum on the other hand is what I would classify as a fairly solid squad player at international level for Holland. For me, he probably wouldn't have been a starter in Brazil, and I think he was often the weak link when he played. Probably a similar level to Cabaye and Sissoko for me. He was very highly rated when he was younger iirc? Who? Wijnaldum? Never as highly as Depay. He moved from Feyenoord to PSV for 3m at around the same age as Depay moves to Man U for 30m. Not in comparison to Depay but Wijnaldum would always have been a pretty well known young player on some of the Dutch underage teams Of course. I will also say this: as far as I know he has never had any serious injury problems and his mentality is spot on. Apart from maybe overpaying a little and it perhaps not being a position of urgent need this looks like a very good signing indeed, which hopefully will not be to the detriment of other signings we require.

I can confirm that looks suspiciously like Newcastle airport.

Isn't he rated to be the better than Depay as well? Not even close So how good is he? Well, to my mind Memphis Depay, who is 4 years younger, is already a better player and has the potential to become Van Persie/Robben level. Wijnaldum on the other hand is what I would classify as a fairly solid squad player at international level for Holland. For me, he probably wouldn't have been a starter in Brazil, and I think he was often the weak link when he played. Probably a similar level to Cabaye and Sissoko for me. He was very highly rated when he was younger iirc? Who? Wijnaldum? Never as highly as Depay. He moved from Feyenoord to PSV for 3m at around the same age as Depay moves to Man U for 30m.

We'd score one, maybe two every game and concede about five.