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Pretty sure i remember reading Koeman quoted as saying something along the lines of if he had to rate Depay as a person, he'd give his personality a zero out of 10 lol
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Sounds like a rumour to hurry up palace, plays the same position basically, would be fine with him as Kidman knows him well and United wasted/mishandled him
Azza
Player Valuation: £80m
Nicole ?
Steve Wigan
Player Valuation: £35m
Has Nicole Kidman joined our staff now? Excellent !!! Well done Walshy!!
Southampton manager Ronald Koeman has said that Man United have overpaid for a youngster who will not be able to play every week – and a top Dutch scout has also given a damning insight into the 21-year-old's personality.
Wide-man Depay 's talent is undoubted, but it seems United could have a player with the personalities of Liverpool’s Mario Balotelli and Raheem Sterling rolled into one on their hands if things turn bad.
He has moved to Old Trafford in a £25million switch from PSV Eindhoven, and Koeman - who was the Dutch club's coach when Depay was a youth player there - said: “I think they paid a lot of money.
"Because it is United, where they already spent £200m on players like Angel Di Maria, such a big figure is put in perspective.
“If you pay millions for Di Maria who hardly plays, if you pay a fortune in wages and rent fee for [on-loan] Radamel Falcao who NEVER plays, than £25m is not a lot of money for them…
“He won’t play every game. I have learnt, while I am here in England, that Dutch players can’t make the jump to the top of the Premier League easily. And young players can’t play 38 games anyway.
“And I see another lack of quality with the Dutch kids, that I have also noticed with other young stars in the Premier League: they don’t communicate! They behave like individuals. Stuck to their smartphones.’’
Koeman is not the only man to sense difficulties for Depay, as influential talent spotter Henk Grim also has doubts over the 21-year-old.
Grim is one of the master scouts in Dutch football, who has been tracking Depay over the past five years.
He said: “I watched the young Memphis Depay often enough. I was doing scouting work on him when he was playing in the Under-16 side for PSV Eindhoven, and there was this game against FC Twente.
“I always work with a list of five specific qualities: skills, tactics, physique, attitude, personality. I did not get any higher with my average ratings than 5.6 out of 10.
"And you know what brought the rating down most of all? The rating for his personality. It is only because of the fact that I could not go any lower than zero out of 10, otherwise I would have rated him well below that.
“It was absolutely disgusting, the foul language that boy used towards his fellow players and towards people in the crowd.
Lets swerve.
Wide-man Depay 's talent is undoubted, but it seems United could have a player with the personalities of Liverpool’s Mario Balotelli and Raheem Sterling rolled into one on their hands if things turn bad.
He has moved to Old Trafford in a £25million switch from PSV Eindhoven, and Koeman - who was the Dutch club's coach when Depay was a youth player there - said: “I think they paid a lot of money.
"Because it is United, where they already spent £200m on players like Angel Di Maria, such a big figure is put in perspective.
“If you pay millions for Di Maria who hardly plays, if you pay a fortune in wages and rent fee for [on-loan] Radamel Falcao who NEVER plays, than £25m is not a lot of money for them…
“He won’t play every game. I have learnt, while I am here in England, that Dutch players can’t make the jump to the top of the Premier League easily. And young players can’t play 38 games anyway.
“And I see another lack of quality with the Dutch kids, that I have also noticed with other young stars in the Premier League: they don’t communicate! They behave like individuals. Stuck to their smartphones.’’
Koeman is not the only man to sense difficulties for Depay, as influential talent spotter Henk Grim also has doubts over the 21-year-old.
Grim is one of the master scouts in Dutch football, who has been tracking Depay over the past five years.
He said: “I watched the young Memphis Depay often enough. I was doing scouting work on him when he was playing in the Under-16 side for PSV Eindhoven, and there was this game against FC Twente.
“I always work with a list of five specific qualities: skills, tactics, physique, attitude, personality. I did not get any higher with my average ratings than 5.6 out of 10.
"And you know what brought the rating down most of all? The rating for his personality. It is only because of the fact that I could not go any lower than zero out of 10, otherwise I would have rated him well below that.
“It was absolutely disgusting, the foul language that boy used towards his fellow players and towards people in the crowd.
Lets swerve.
ham2
Player Valuation: £10m
Papa?
“He won’t play every game. I have learnt, while I am here in England, that Dutch players can’t make the jump to the top of the Premier League easily. And young players can’t play 38 games anyway.
“And I see another lack of quality with the Dutch kids, that I have also noticed with other young stars in the Premier League: they don’t communicate! They behave like individuals. Stuck to their smartphones.’’
And heres the reason why Koeman wont be buying any young players in his time here.
“And I see another lack of quality with the Dutch kids, that I have also noticed with other young stars in the Premier League: they don’t communicate! They behave like individuals. Stuck to their smartphones.’’
And heres the reason why Koeman wont be buying any young players in his time here.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
LAToffee
Player Valuation: £20m
No thanks. Has failed at Man Utd with plenty of time to shine. Just don't think he's suited to British game.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Sounds a good fit for the rs
ritterefc
Player Valuation: £750k
In every way
I've just been a little bit sick in my mouth again
if you want dutch winger then go no further than Anwar El Ghazi
Just about to say the same, its why we are buying 27 - 31 year olds!!!
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