The Newcastle lot sound bitter about Ba leaving http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/188249-Ba-Bye-(official)
Hi lads, wrote a blog today on the Eredivisie transfer targets, hope you guys like the read and hopefully find a name in there you could see Liverpool buying: The transfer market is open again and things are stiring in the Dutch football league, the Eredivisie. In this blog you will find the hottest transfer targets, rumours and the best prospects around in The Netherlands. Let's start with the targets, in my previous blogs I made lists of hot prospects and some of the names in that list are now playing for English clubs. Buttner(ManU) and Assaidi(Liverpool) for example. This winter a couple of new youngsters are on the verge of making the transfer to the EPL. Here are some of the names: Jeremain Lens(PSV), 25 year old striker and right winger has been linked with several EPL clubs this summer and the rumours haven't subsided ever since. With Tim Matavz not fit, Lens was the starting striker in the beginning of this season and he delivered. Making it to the national team and scored in the qualification match against Romania: [video=youtube;i4B32ebASqY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4B32ebASqY[/video] This fast, agile and versatile striker has a contract till summer 2015 and will cost a big sum of money, a bid of at least 9 million pounds will be needed to pursuade PSV Eindhoven to sell him in January. Could go up as much as 15 million pounds looking at his contract. Dries Mertens(PSV Eindhoven), 25 years old LW/RW fills the transferrumour page every day: Spurs, Liverpool and almost every other EPL club were linked with Mertens in 2012. His contract with PSV ends in 2016 and will cost an arm and a leg for the club that wants him. He has been on fire in 2012 scoring on a weekly basis. The main problem is that he has a bit of a 'Robben' syndrome. He only knows one trick, perfected it to produce goals, but once any centre back figured out how to stop him he is rendered useless on the pitch. Last time that happened PSV lost 2-0 in the away game at Ajax Amsterdam. But being a transfer hype I estimate he will cost any club around 11 million quid, possibly up to 16 seen his contract lenght. Christian Eriksen(Ajax), this 21 year old Danish super talent has made the transfer rumour list a couple of times in recent years. The attacking midfielder has been linked with a lot of team with Manchester United and Arsenal in particular. ManU bought Kagawa this summer and the Spurs got themselves Dembele which tempered the stories in the papers. In December he was linked again with a couple of EPL clubs for example Liverpool. But this young Danish will cost a lot more than the listed above: around 15 million pounds. Maybe up to 20 milion pounds but that seems unlikely as his contract runs out in July 2014. Kevin Strootman(PSV), this 22 year old midfielder career skyrocketed after a transfer from Sparta Rotterdam to FC Utrecht. Where he played alongside Dries Mertens and created a stir in the 2010-2011 season in the Europa League. They drew 1-1 home and away against Liverpool, aided by the FC Utrecht goal you all may know: Michel Vorm. Mertens and Strootman stayed together and transferred at the same time to PSV Eindhoven in 2011 for a combined sum of 15 million euro's(around 12 million pounds). Strootman went from the second division to a top Dutch league club in 12 months and to the national team in just 18 months since his departure at Sparta Rotterdam. Estimated value: 10 million pounds. Douglas(FC Twente), Douglas Franco Teixeira Dutch Nationalized Brazillian defender of age 24 has been heavily linked with Newcastle United throughout 2012. The Geordies were unable to sign him this summer due to his nationalization status, Douglas had to stay with a Dutch club untill the end of August to become a Dutch citizen. In January this newly Dutch defender is now on the market as his contract runs out in July this summer. In the past six months he had to take over captaincy in the defense as veteran defender Wisgerhof was benched by Steve McLaren. Since then his bad temper seems to be under control and he looks a lot more mature on the pitch. FC Twente want to make some profit while they can but they won't get the jackpot. Estimated value: 3 to 5 million pounds. Now these five players may be the hottest targets in the Eredivisie, there is a huge amount of talent flying under the radar that deserve to be mentioned. The foremost are: Ajax: - Siem de Jong, CM/AM/CF/ST 23 years old captain of the Dutch Eredivisie Champions of 2012, 10 million pounds - Toby Alderweireld CB/RB way off the level of Vertonghen but still a decent defender, 8 million pounds Vitesse: - Wilfred Bony, 23 yeard old striker from Ivory Coast, goal magnet and current top scorer in the league, 10-15 million pounds - Tomas Kalas, 19 year old Czech defender, on loan from Chelsea, extremely fast and strong, 7-12 million. Feyenoord: - Stefan de Vrij, 20 year old defender, played for the nation team, linked with Chelsea, 7-10 million pounds - Bruno Martins Indi, 20 year old CB/RB, scored for the national team, 5-8 million pounds - Jordy Clasie, DM/CM/AM 20 year old talent, just a tiny bit bigger than Anita, 6-8 million pounds. FC Twente: - Dusan Tadic, 24 year old Serbian AM/LW, very creative midfielder, 8 million pounds - Roberto Rosales, 24 year old RB rom Venezuela, makes a lot of errors but still hot in the press, 5 million - Nacer Chadli, 23 years old Belgian LW/AM, not as creative as Tadic but still good, 7 million pounds SC Heerenveen: - Filip Djuricic, AM/CF 20 years old, massive talent but a bit selfish and complacent at times. 6-8 million pounds. AZ Alkmaar - Adam Maher, AM/CM 19 years old dubbed the new Wesley Sneijder, PSV is interested, 7-9 million pounds - Jozy Altidore, US striker 23 years old. 5-6 million pounds - Roy Beerens, very talented winger, 25 years old, 3-5 million pounds <- bargain And there you have it, an oversight of all the targets, potential targets and prospects in the Eredivisie.
This was the approach i really wanted in the sturridge deal. In that case Chelsea actually wanted to get rid of him and sturridge himself wanted out. I still think we could have got him for less than 10mill but well, it's done and dusted. But why exactly are we after Ince, when we can get him for free in the summer. He's not going to be having and immediate impact here so i really don't see why we are after him. And does anyone know about the Gameiro deal. I read somewhere in the forum that Jeremy LFC is a reliable source, and he apparently says the deal is happening, any news on that front? and who exactly is this JEREMY?
Cheers Cove. I read the blog you wrote about Eredivisie targets that included Assaidi before he joined us and everything you said about him has been spot on. Keep up the good work
How would we get Ince on a free in the summer? Did he only sign a 1 year contract or something? Not sure how it works so any info would be appreciated A number of sources including Tony Barrett (from the Times) has said that we are very interested in Gameiro. Jeremy is pretty reliable with his information.
http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/basics/spielervergleich/basics_145988_157368.html Looking at a comparison between Zaha and Ince is quite revealing. Ince, with fewer games and fewer minutes, has scored and created more, both this season and overall in the Championship. Given the choice, I'd choose Ince every time.
My thoughts exactly - he seems to have more output (i.e. goals and assists) to his game than Zaha and Sterling, hence why I think he would be a good player to rotate with Sterling.
His contract finishes in 2013, so i assume he signed only a one year deal. His contract info is mentioned in this link http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/thomas-ince/profil/spieler_157368.html
He signed a 2 year deal with Blackpool in June 2011, so he's out of contract this summer. However, as he's under 24 if he walked in June Blackpool would still get a tribunal set fee, hence the reason they're hanging out of a reported £6M now.
Goals and assists aren't everything. The player could be running riot meaning the opposition double up on him, this then gives other players more time/space. Thats a better team output. A lot depends on the teams style too.
I think his Dad was behind it. He was only ever going to use Blackpool as a stepping stone, so tying himself down to a long term contract would have possibly caused him a problem in terms of being able to move on. Given his family, it's hardly surprising that he had the self belief to only want a 2 year deal.
Blackpool pl26 w8 d10 L8 +43 -38 diff+5 pts34 Crystal Palace pl26 w13 d8 L5 +50 -34 diff+16 pts47 Ince has had a hand in 23 of 43 goals Zaha had a hand in 11 of 50 goals Again, I'd look at that and still go for Ince...
True, So went to play a live match with Liverpool last night but forgot that they don't update the squads until February. Ah well, Pierre in my career mode will have to do.
