Unbelievable

FFS

True sadly. I was hoping that promising defenders moving abroad at an early age might have an effect, but the likes of Rekik and Bruma still don't look polished. Midfielders and forwards who have been snapped up by the likes of Chelsea and Man City at age 16 are generally never heard of again, unsurprisingly. I fear the effect of this on our NT in a few years time. The best young talents who previously would have been through Ajax' and Feyenoord's academies only to move abroad after a few years in the first team are snapped up for small compensation by your big clubs nowadays, only to be ruined.

Same as no conclusion can be drawn beforehand for any transfer. Name me one league or club where buying a player from them is a cast iron guarantee for success.

coin FFS

Howay man, they're a massive club in their own right. How many players have excelled there and got big transfers? Not like they are some Euopean football's backwater.

Plus it's been nice weather so they will be seeing Newcastle at it's best. I still remember Tino turning up in the snow wrapped in fur like some scene from Game of Thrones.

Groundhog day, but I will not have a bad word said about Afonso Alves' record in NL or its significance. He was a world beater in his time at Heerenveen. His failure at Middlesbrough and subseqent money grabbing in The Middle East does not take away from that. He simply went the way many Brazilians have gone before him and was more interested in coon than in his reputation, becoming the best player he possibly could or winning trophies. The PL isn't the be all and end all of football, even if it pays the highest wages.

Romario, Ronaldo, Van Basten, Bergkamp, Van Nistelrooij, Zlatan, Kluivert, Van Persie amongst others say hi.

Seriously, who does his father think he/his son is?

http://www.football-oranje.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ray-Clarke.jpg one s***-hot season for ajax, one season at nufc that was plain s***

You should consider the other way. What is the last English player to have made an impact in the Eredivisie?

Last two or three seasons!?

Yep

That last line suggests to me we don't expect him to be here much longer

If not this season, and it doesn't bare thinking about really, the three stooges will all be gone by this time next season as their contracts run out, so a complete overhaul is needed in any case. Might as well start now.

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