2017/18 Davy Klaassen

sageyefc · January 30, 2018

Played nearly all his career in an attacking role, so what do we do, play him deep midfield.

hktoffee · January 30, 2018

sageyefc said:
Played nearly all his career in an attacking role, so what do we do, play him deep midfield.

He does not get a fair chance while his teammates are dosh.

NCLBlue · January 30, 2018

Rate him more than Schneiderlin

jonnyboy316 · January 30, 2018

He has had 13 appearances and it was clear the lad is not a PL player

onlyme · January 30, 2018

If you assess his skillsets as in pace,strength,dribbling, tackling, heading would you give him more than 1 out of 5 for any ? So it's difficult to see WTF Koeman and his scouts saw to conclude he was worth the fee we paid.

macdog · January 30, 2018

CynicalBlue · January 30, 2018

jonnyboy316 said:
He has had 13 appearances and it was clear the lad is not a PL player

I'm not disagreeing but Morgan has played far more games and still not a PL player.

Toffee-nerd · January 30, 2018

jonnyboy316 said:
He has had 13 appearances and it was clear the lad is not a PL player

Neither was ericsson or bale on that logic

LiamG · January 30, 2018

maccavennie said:
Make it so Napoli. Loan deal with view to buy for 15m would be good for all concerned

If it's a loan I would want to make a profit if he does well and they want him. A bit like the Sandro deal.

I would take 15m now if offered.

The Blue Watch · January 30, 2018

I will never understand how we can not give a 25 million, Ajax captain, Dutch international a proper chance.

Granted, he didn’t set the world alight, but I don’t recall him being THAT awful in the limited minutes he’s played. Should be given a chance to adapt, and I don’t buy the excuse that we’re not in a position to do that either, because we’re in a position to have Schneiderlin starting every game apparently.

You’d have thought we’d know better after the Niasse debacle.

Barnfred 55 · January 30, 2018

onlyme said:
If you assess his skillsets as in pace,strength,dribbling, tackling, heading would you give him more than 1 out of 5 for any ? So it's difficult to see WTF Koeman and his scouts saw to conclude he was worth the fee we paid.

True. But if he was looking for a midfielder who's skillsets included passing, shooting, vision, work rate and arriving late in the box, then you can see from his days at Ajax why he went for him.

The fact that Koeman then bought 2 other players who did pretty much the same, then opt to play a brand of football that didn't suit those skills set, isn't really the lads fault.

Librarian · January 30, 2018

Image rights? I though his image rights belonged to Seven Naismith.

VentureBrosEFC · January 30, 2018

jonnyboy316 said:
He has had 13 appearances and it was clear the lad is not a PL player

So are we disregarding the countless numbers of players that don't hit the ground running but end up being amazing? If you need a current obvious example look at KDB, because I can't bring myself to say the "others" have one playing for them.

ToffeeTim · January 30, 2018

Looks like he's on his way out.

dannyboy · January 30, 2018

VentureBrosEFC said:
So are we disregarding the countless numbers of players that don't hit the ground running but end up being amazing? If you need a current obvious example look at KDB, because I can't bring myself to say the "others" have one playing for them.

That's fair enough but how many games do you give him? We bought so many players, it was inevitable some of them wouldn't work out.