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Newcastle hand trial to 19 year old Dutch striker.

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  1. Lieutenant

    Lieutenant Well-Known Member

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    http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11678/8365053


    Newcastle are set to hand a New Year trial to Dutch teenager Denzel Slager, according to RKC Waalwijk's technical manager.

    The forward, 19, has made two substitute appearances for the Eredivisie side this season and is a key part of their successful second-string team which is currently higher than Feyenoord, Ajax and PSV in the Dutch reserve league.

    His contract runs until the summer of 2014, with the club having the option of extending it to another season.

    But Waalwijk's technical manager Janus van Gelder says he is happy for the teenager to try his luck on Tyneside.

    Van Gelder told Dutch newspaper Brabants Dagblad: "Slager is a big talent. He will get the opportunity from us to prove himself at Newcastle in the first week of January."
     
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    a cracking name that.
    Cove.. any view from your side of the fence?
     
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  3. Cove

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    Never heard of him, hasn't played for the first team by my knowledge
    Oh and slager literally translated means Butcher
     
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    I don't know anything about this young player, I shall await a verdict from 'Our Man in the Dam' <laugh>
     
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  5. Lieutenant

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    I'm guessing he is of the same mold as a Ibrahim Affelay, or am I hoping? I don't know.
     
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    Surely we need to be focussing on signings which are first team ready, not more reservists.
     
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  7. TheJudeanPeoplesFront

    TheJudeanPeoplesFront Well-Known Member

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    We most certainly do!!!

    I do however think Ashley is genuinely convinced he can turn us into Arsenal, poaching youngsters and spending relatively little next to gross profit... Unfortunately for him, Arsenal had to spend quite a lot and invest massively in the academy before they could survive with the current policy, and we need the same to be as successful (although they aren't exactly trophy winners either... I'd take 4th every year to be truthful) at some point.
     
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    I'd take 4th from top rather than 6th from bottom too.
     
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  9. Warmir Pouchov

    Warmir Pouchov Better than JPF

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    I want him to be good. He's sounds like a rugged detective who doesn't mind bending the rules.

    Stop my drink.
     
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    Tap duly stopped.
     
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  11. Clarence Acuna

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    We've declined the trial apparently. Probably the next Bergkamp
     
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