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Good stuff. Rafa's getting rid of the deadwood. 7.5M is a relatively low fee these days for an international player with 4 years left on his contract, so I think the fee and the destination tells you all about how "good" he has been for us.

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It'll be one out & one in with Daryl Janmaat on his way & DeAndre Yedlin set for NUFC medical. That, for me, is a fairly big downgrade

 

Spot on here.

 

Not if one doesn't want to be here and the other does.

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As far as the fee goes, international or not he's a right back who can't get in our side in the Championship ahead of a midfielder.

 

Also downgrade?, same answer, can't get in ahead of Anita FFS, how can anyone be a big downgrade on that? :lol:

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Never a fan. Lack of discipline and the prototypical "fanny head" you'd expect from an English clogger, not a Dutch maestro. Good sum, thanks for the, lack of good, memories...

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Good first four months and has been garbage since - the number of times he was yards behind the rest of the back four line that cost us goals was ridiculous! Good price for someone who clearly does not want to be here!

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We have definitely looked a better side without him in defense. He was very good in attack to begin with when he started for us, but has massively trailed off since then and been very inconsistent. He's one paced though, and was often made to look a fool by rather poor midfielders as a result. I think he genuinely cared but really lashed out in weird ways and had some embarrassing moments (Southampton away last season, intentional red).

 

Best of luck to him though.

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People keep bringing up that he's a Dutch international. Much like they kept saying Anita was a Dutch international and Ajax graduate, De Jong was Ajax captain, Gini best player in Holland, even Sels best keeper in Belgium. These things really don't mean anywhere near as much as the weight some people give to them.

 

Janmaat himself was player of the year for an actual Premier League side. So was Rob Elliot.

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