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Everton Transfer Thread 2016

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MoutsGoat said:
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.
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Well that looks pretty definitive.
 
MoutsGoat said:
“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.
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He's bad ass.
 

maccavennie said:
I honestly thought Koeman had tried to sign Depay whilst at Southampton before he went to the Mancs.

maccas transfer compass must have been slightly off with that one.
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Speaking at a BBC Solent fans forum event at St Mary's, Koeman said: "It is true, we were interested in Memphis last year but we heard from his management that he wanted to stay one more year in Holland and then take the opportunity to play for a foreign club.

"I think Memphis, now at the moment, has a difficult time but that's normal because he is 21 and of course maybe the step to Manchester United in all aspects is a difficult one and he needs more time.

"If one day he will be on the market, I'm interested yes but I don't think so because I believe in that player.

"It is a difficult time but (he is) still young. He has to improve a lot and he will go through all these difficult moments."


These comments he made 4 months after the others.
 

I'd have Depay, he's definitely a risk but could be gray player. If you read Rons comments he says it'll take a long time to adjust, well he's had that time now so he might have adjusted
 

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