2017/18 Davy Klaassen

[dannyboy]

Still think he will do well here but he has to find some edge to his game. Far far too soft in the challenge and needs to toughen up.

He needs to find that half a yard quickly. With the type of player he is it's integral to his game. Without it he won't get himself into scoring positions which is surely why we bought him.

 

[COYBL25]

Do you not blow Klaxons?
I am unfamiliar with their operation Joey66 Human.

Why are you chunnering on about, you bad multi ?

 

[griffla]

Given time he'll def be better than Vinny Samways, maybe even John Ebrell. So young Dave lad is sound by me.

 

[tim cahill]

With signing Rooney and Sigurdsson I think the Klassen money would have been better spent on a striker. You pad the squad out when the first XI is sorted. It's clear that the 3 of them shouldn't play together at the same time.

 

[evertony]

Baby Denis will be fine.

Vault me.

 

[SteRobbo84]

Hoping he can get off the mark tonight. Might give him the confidence to be more imposing in future games. Considering Koeman supposedly really wanted him and he came with no fitness problems I'm surprised he's only done 90 mins once in the 6 games he's featured.

 

[thebluenosebolt]

Thing with Davey though is he has only ever played the ajax way really. To take him from there (a technical team) and dump in hoof central.. Were we really expecting him to change that quickly. Give him time.... Personally I feel he has the quick mindedness of a Pienaar type... I would try him in the very same position.. Before anyone pipes up with 'he' s not a winger tho'.... I simply mean to try him there.

 

[bring the ghost on]

Average TBH.

 

[eurosrees]

I reckon he could be a player when we let him play without 2/3 other players in the exact same position as him, too many cooks and all that.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

I reckon he could be a player when we let him play without 2/3 other players in the exact same position as him, too many cooks and all that.

If he is in the game, he should be the only CAM/boxtobox in the lineup. It's hard to 'link up' when there is no movement whatsoever.

 

[hetion]

Paredes was available for the same price though. Sigh.

(Actually think Klaassen is a solid player, just a pointless addition to the squad)

 

[eurosrees]

If he is in the game, he should be the only CAM/boxtobox in the lineup. It's hard to 'link up' when there is no movement whatsoever.

Yeah, he's trying to play one touch passes to people who don't move, even David Silva would struggle to create anything in this squad.

 

[john_r]

I'm not surprised he's not doing well

He has no striker to assist too

And he's playing with two other players in the same position!

If we just played one number 10, had a target man and used wingers we would see a much better player

However for some reason Koeman won't learn that 3x number tens isn't working!!

We could always play Mason Holgate instead of three number tens (see what I did there?)

 

[toffeeblue9]

I think there's a really good player there, but at the moment he looks very unsuited to what we need. Klaassen and Koeman need to adapt to get the best from him here. You can see the football brain, almost every pass is first time and his movement is great, but he's weak, becomes half the player when he has to take a few touches and our lack of attacking threat has meant we've seen next to none of his biggest strength, that ability to ghost into the area and get on the end of things

He'd probably be great for Arsenal or someone like that

 

[Frang]

I think there's a really good player there, but at the moment he looks very unsuited to what we need. Klaassen and Koeman need to adapt to get the best from him here. You can see the football brain, almost every pass is first time and his movement is great, but he's weak, becomes half the player when he has to take a few touches and our lack of attacking threat has meant we've seen next to none of his biggest strength, that ability to ghost into the area and get on the end of things

He'd probably be great for Arsenal or someone like that

Koeman needs to decide who to build a team around. rooney, klassen or gylfi.

impossible to build a team around all three