Luuk de Jong signs for PSV

[STM]

It seems that our club have once again made the right choice... Well unless he turns out to be Messi.

 

16m is half a squad for us.

[Mr. Snrub]

€20m?!  Fucking hell, absolutely scandalous that.  Twente's home kit next season;

 

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[High Five o]

€20m?!  Fucking hell, absolutely scandalous that.  Twente's home kit next season;

 

http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/14591030/2/stock-illustration-14591030-cartoon-robber.jpg

 

Black and white strips, getting tons of money for a unproven striker, it seems familiar

[Minhosa]

Fucking hell. Almost two Papiss's. Presume he's the next Marco Van Basten for that sort of dollar.

[ponsaelius]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

[Minhosa]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Likewise. He'd have to have an absolutely storming couple of years in the Bundesliga to justify that fee.

[Dokko]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

 

[Dan Gleebals]

If 15M is insane for LDJ, then £35M for Carroll is ROFL, LOL, OMG, LOL, OMG.

 

But we knew that, just shows how much we ripped them off.

[Mole_Toonfan]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

[Alberto2005]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

Same, I hope we don't do this

[ponsaelius]

I'm not keen on either of those fees for the respective players.

[Teasy]

Deal agreed at about £16m with Borussia Monstermunch according to Sky.

 

Wow, I really thought they were just talking big, but they've actually gotten the fee they wanted, £16m that's mental!

[Mole_Toonfan]

I'm not keen on either of those fees for the respective players.

 

Neither would i, but if i had the choice between paying 12m for Carroll and 16m for De Jong i would pay for 16m for De Jong.

 

 

[Unbelievable]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

 

I wouldn't. The cheaper option is much more proven at this level. The point about bringing in players from leagues like the Eredivisie is that they provide better price vs quality. Luuk de Jong at 16 million doesn't quite frankly.

[Dokko]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

 

I wouldn't. The cheaper option is much more proven at this level. The point about bringing in players from leagues like the Eredivisie is that they provide better price quality. Luuk de Jong at 16 million doesn't quite frankly.

 

Spot on.

[Mole_Toonfan]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

 

I wouldn't. The cheaper option is much more proven at this level. The point about bringing in players from leagues like the Eredivisie is that they provide better price vs quality. Luuk de Jong at 16 million doesn't quite frankly.

 

While all that is true, at least De Jong has the versatility to fit different systems and actually has the potential to be worth that amount of money.

 

While Carroll is just a huge waste at 12m especially when you consider he isn't much more than a rotation option.

 

I wouldn't do either deals personally, but if i was backed into a corner and i had to make one of those deals i'd take the De Jong one.

[Unbelievable]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

 

I wouldn't. The cheaper option is much more proven at this level. The point about bringing in players from leagues like the Eredivisie is that they provide better price vs quality. Luuk de Jong at 16 million doesn't quite frankly.

 

While all that is true, at least De Jong has the versatility to fit different systems and actually has the potential to be worth that amount of money.

 

While Carroll is just a huge waste at 12m especially when you consider he isn't much more than a rotation option.

 

I wouldn't do either deals personally, but if i was backed into a corner and i had to make one of those deals i'd take the De Jong one.

 

Carroll was worth 3 times that amount one and a half year ago man. That's not opinion, it's fact. And most of us on here thought we got the short straw in that deal too, at the time..

[toontownman]

At the end of the day we know what we are getting with Carroll in every way. A lot of the players know him, the staff know him. While we have extensively scouted DeJong he would be at least a big a risk as Carroll if not bigger.

 

I like the idea of DeJong being able to play out wide but how good is he actually at playing out there and how much has he played out there? I thought he spent all of last central. We have a bit of depth out wide although after being linked with players like Belhanda I would like another player of Ben Arfa's level on the other side.

[Teasy]

Daft money. Glad we've stayed away.

 

Insane money. Would rather have Carroll back for £12m.

 

I'd rather pay 16m for De Jong than pay 12m for Carroll tbh.

 

I wouldn't. The cheaper option is much more proven at this level. The point about bringing in players from leagues like the Eredivisie is that they provide better price vs quality. Luuk de Jong at 16 million doesn't quite frankly.

 

While all that is true, at least De Jong has the versatility to fit different systems and actually has the potential to be worth that amount of money.

 

While Carroll is just a huge waste at 12m especially when you consider he isn't much more than a rotation option.

 

I wouldn't do either deals personally, but if i was backed into a corner and i had to make one of those deals i'd take the De Jong one.

 

Carroll was worth 3 times that amount one and a half year ago man. That's not opinion, it's fact. And most of us on here thought we got the short straw in that deal too, at the time..

 

Well you can argue that whatever someone is willing to pay is what a players worth but I still wouldn't say its fact that he was worth £35m just because Liverpool were stupid enough to pay it.  Also I think only the rarest of crazies on here thought that £35m for Andy Carroll wasn't a fantastic fee as long as it was used to improve us (which it was).

[The College Dropout]

Only the idiots thought we got a bad deal at £35m. That's Zlatan money. Villa money. He was never going to be sold on for that money.

 

[Teasy]

Actually it was £35,012,000

[AyeDubbleYoo]

I didn't really have any idea whether £35m was good money or not, but I was gutted he was going. I didn't know he was going to be shite and I didn't know we were going to buy such class players with the money.

[The College Dropout]

I was worried Fat Mike would pocket the cash but if you couldn't tell 35m was a great deal, you're an idiot.

[Guest palnese]

It wasn't a great deal at the time, imo. We got Shefki fucking Kuqi in as his replacement.

 

I'm aware of the fact that we actually did better pointwise without him in the 2nd half of the season, but at the time it was a minor disaster.

[The College Dropout]

It wasn't a great deal at the time, imo. We got Shefki f***ing Kuqi in as his replacement.

 

I'm aware of the fact that we actually did better pointwise without him in the 2nd half of the season, but at the time it was a little disaster.

 

We wasn't going to challenge for Europe that season nor get relegated. It's shit selling your best players and I would've been very annoyed to see him go for 15-20. But £35million?