Confirmed Signing Donny van de Beek

[Goat]

Hope you are right. We could do with a 8

I have limited knowledge on the boy bar what ive read and watched in the last day or 2, so we shall see.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Hopefully he feels he has something to prove and plays really well to show Man United what they're missing

 

[Terrarian]

Keep needing to remember this is a loan with no option to buy, so I won’t get too attached, but hope he’s what we need

We'd still be able to bid for him in the summer if he does well, a decent offer and Utd will talk, he's hardly been used there. I wouldn't read too much into that.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

If he does well for us mate it will lead to a few clubs coming in for him, if he's boss for us then we've done the Mancs a favour.

Plus, if he does well here and rejuvenates his career then other players might look at us as somewhere you want to go for a loan to get yourself back on your feet, opening the doors for better loan targets going forward

 

[Martin Alvito]

Problem is if he does well Utd are the sort of snide club that wont sell him to us even if he ends up rotting on their bench.

They'll probably try to sell him abroad if they decide to sell. Howard's about the ceiling on what they'll voluntarily sell to another Prem club.

 

[Eggs]

Problem is if he does well Utd are the sort of snide club that wont sell him to us even if he ends up rotting on their bench.

…funny how a few Rafatonians take a view that we can only sign mediocre players and mediocre managers, yet here we have footballers who clearly had a number of options yet chose Everton.

 

[hallamblue]

…funny how a few Rafatonians take a view that we can only sign mediocre players and mediocre managers, yet here we have footballers who clearly had a number of options yet chose Everton.

Can we not use Benitez' name in any posts please. That way with a bit of luck we'll forget he was ever here.

 

[Eggs]

Can we not use Benitez' name in any posts please. That way with a bit of luck we'll forget he was ever here.

….yep, I like that suggestion.

 

[UptheTofees]

Happy he is here

We are more the level of his quality but he is an improvement over what we have

 

[NewRadical]

How much are Palace hating us right now? Grab van de beek from them, they turn their attention to alli and we end up with him too.

That'll learn them for beating us in the Zenith Data Cup Final!

 

[Toffe3m4n]

From his Wiki:

At Ajax, Van de Beek played as a central midfielder. The Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo writes that he plays a more offensive role compared to his counterparts on other teams. According to former Ajax manager Frank de Boer, Van de Beek plays best at the number six position. Goal.com described Van de Beek as a player who has "excellent control and a great eye for a pass as he links up with the attack and is dangerous as he makes runs into the box". While playing for the Ajax academy, he was compared with Davy Klaassen. However, Van de Beek rejected the comparison and said that he was a player who wanted to keep the ball at his feet. Former Ajax captain Joël Veltman described Van de Beek as a player who "works very hard and can play between the lines".

Haha own up - who wrote the Davey Klaassen line?

 

[Death]

That moment of sadness in his eyes when asked "How does it feel to be an Everton player?" is poignant.

He truly is an Evertonian now. We all can relate.

 

[little elfin]

 

[Nymzee]

My worry is he plays class, we spunk loads on him in the Summer, then he just flops after getting the move.

 

[Hangleton]

My worry is he plays class, we spunk loads on him in the Summer, then he just flops after getting the move.

This is a certainty. It’s what we do best. But at least it means we will have stayed up.