Confirmed Signing Davy Klaassen

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Yes mate it would.

I try not to get personal on here and mostly succeed. The use of the insult "WUM' is a toxic one and is trundled out way too liberally. If someone has a different pov = 'WUM". Is that where we are?

By being contrary about every single Everton story since El Fraudo was chucked over the side, then you reap what you sow Dave.

 

[BenscoAJAX]

Hey mate cheers for the insight how would you describe his playing style ?

i would descripe him as a box to box midfielder, really talented with the ball and good passing skills in close spaces. Great header and he can score. He made 20 goals in 50 appareances last year and was club topscorer in 13/14. That year was golden for him, he scored a hatrrick (). His mentality is gold, a sober guy. This guy just loves football and he loves Ajax. He could have gone to bigger clubs for almost 2 years now but he stayed because he wanted to achieve something with Ajax. He is a real valuable player to our club and really talented. Johan Cruijff himself acknowledged that and Koeman knows it too, thats the reason why he is pushing Everton so hard to get him to the club.

 

[Bud McBlokeski]

@davek - you seem to be getting a lot of flak on here for your often contrary opinions. Some I agree with, some I don't (with you on Moshiri to a degree, not with you on Koeman). So I pose this question to you: what positives do you see from what Koeman has done and is doing thus far? Not baiting - genuinely interested.

 

[ProZ]

highly unlikely that Koeman was aware of Klaassen at the youth academy at that time. Koeman knows Klaassen from his time as a coach at Feyenoord and he is a Ajacied so he is found at a regular base at the club. Klaassen is considered one of the bigger talents of the eredivisie, Koeman has seen his abilities and knows that he can grow out to an amazing footballer.

but i get your point, the price is high even for everton standards but considering the prices being payed for players nowadays this is considered a normal market value. In exchange you will be getting a very promising talent which has won prices for being the biggest talent of the club, the division and even the MVP award of the year. Klaassen wont fail, there is no doubt in my mind.

He best friggen not or I'll report you, you got that pal.

 

[Badge1878]

Klaassen is the number 10 we have been crying for. He was brought up as a striker so will be more Dele Ali than Tom Davies - edit: I hope!

I don't profess to be a FIFA nut, or understand the qualities of every young player in Europe, so my knowledge of Klaassen is probably more limited than others on here. I've seen him in a few Europs Cup games and to be honest was disappointed by his overall contribution in the final, but since our interest was first made public I have also seen a fair few Eredivise games and he was the standout player as Ajax chased Feyenoord. I agree it's hard to judge relatives when the standard of one league is lower than another but as a player - lower standard or not - he gets on the ball a lot and makes good use of it.

If it's a fair comparison or not in the games I've seen him at his best he reminds me more of Eriksen at Spurs who followed a similar path. He has good technique, scores regularly and finds space for others, but equally he may find it too physical and fast at first. It took Eriksen time to adapt here and it may be the same with Klaassen - we are known for our patience aren't we? - but we may have to accept that €30m doesn't now get you match winning consistency straight away. We may not like it, but that's how it is these days.

Looks a very good signing from where I'm sat and hope he has a long and successful career in Royal Blue.

 

[DualityNSNO]

He went to Scotland and up there shone in their CL programme against very good opposition.

He also eventually was sold for a reasonable price for a player never having played in a decent league.

So Scotland is now decent, after I've seen you slate it quite well previously? And the Dutch are crap? lol

He played in the CL against some very good opposition, you mean the mighty Reykjavik (sp?), Maribor and Legia? Or Quarabag and random Icelandic team? Or when they lost to Malmo afterwards? He literally played 0 "very good" teams ffs, Dave.

He grew tenfold in the Prem, credit to him, but I saw quite a few Celtic fans being indifferent to him leaving and actually celebrating the price.

 

[Billy Dean]

Not sure why we're going after midfielders. It's the last area we need to strengthen. Where does this leave Walsh and Davies?

 

[BornBlue76]

If it's a fair comparison or not in the games I've seen him at his best he reminds me more of Eriksen at Spurs who followed a similar path. He has good technique, scores regularly and finds space for others, but equally he may find it too physical and fast at first. It took Eriksen time to adapt here and it may be the same with Klaassen - we are known for our patience aren't we? - but we may have to accept that €30m doesn't now get you match winning consistency straight away. We may not like it, but that's how it is these days.

Looks a very good signing from where I'm sat and hope he has a long and successful career in Royal Blue.

I don't profess actually to know him at all. Retracted that statement soon after you might see.. if he is more Eriksen I would be super happy!

 

[BlueToff]

Not sure why we're going after midfielders. It's the last area we need to strengthen. Where does this leave Walsh and Davies?

It's not the last area we need to strengthen in at all though.

Klaassen will add a bit of goal threat to a midfield that has none. He's ideally suited for how Koeman likes to play and we shoul dhave a very busy season.

When/if Rom goes, we aren't going to be able to replace him like-for-like. We need a new way of playing and how Koeman likes his frontlines is with players who can all contribute 10+ goals throughout the season.

In Klaassen, we've got someone who could feasibly get into double figures from midfield, also.

Davies will get plenty of game time. Walsh is still very young and is fine in the U23s atm.

 

[Niapper]

Not sure why we're going after midfielders. It's the last area we need to strengthen. Where does this leave Walsh and Davies?

On the bench.

 

[Tez]

We play three central midfielders. We could potentially play near 60 games.

Schneiderlin - Barry / Gana - Besic / Davies - Klaassen

Actual depth. No deadwood. Even out of Europe that isn't bad to have two genuine options for each of those three places.

Davies is quality but he's only 18 remember. It would be irresponsible to have to play him every game, he is still learning and developing.

I don't know about Barkley but I think McCarthy may be gone. It could be Besic but he was playing a lot last pre-season before the injury and McCarthy has obviously got on the wrong side of the management.

 

[Badge1878]

I don't profess actually to know him at all. Retracted that statement soon after you might see.. if he is more Eriksen I would be super happy!

I was criticising at all mate, I agree with you, from what I've seen I think he's in that 10 mould. My Eriksen comparison may be no nearer the mark either, more the role he plays, or can play is more advanced as he don't look that much of a ball winner!!!

 

[jinkyali]

He went to Scotland and up there shone in their CL programme against very good opposition.

He also eventually was sold for a reasonable price for a player never having played in a decent league.

I say it again.
Coleman came from Sligo Rovers.

 

[SiEdmo]

So Scotland is now decent, after I've seen you slate it quite well previously? And the Dutch are crap? lol

He played in the CL against some very good opposition, you mean the mighty Reykjavik (sp?), Maribor and Legia? Or Quarabag and random Icelandic team? Or when they lost to Malmo afterwards? He literally played 0 "very good" teams ffs, Dave.

He grew tenfold in the Prem, credit to him, but I saw quite a few Celtic fans being indifferent to him leaving and actually celebrating the price.

he said never played in a decent league, ie Scotland is NOT decent

 

[mixed_up]

You have to factor in the opposition strength.

Only 5 different English teams have won the Champions League or European Cup, compared to 3 Dutch teams. Not much difference. The Dutch league doesn't have the money that England, Germany and Spain has so can't attract the best players or pay big wages. So you can't expect their top sides to dominate Europe. They also get less teams into the CL group stages and Europa League group stages automatically (Just one automatically in each competition). And a lot of teams in the top leagues like Spain, England and Germany are rubbish too. Hull? Middlesbrough? Norwich? Sunderland? RM's Wigan?!! To name just a few crappy teams in the PL in recent seasons. Every Ajax side over the past 10 years would have competed with RM's side and probably won 6/7 out of 10 matches against the team he left us with.