Virgil van Dijk

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

I,ll tell you what he would do! He,d continue to moan about how shit everything is with us, along with the other needy types. This place is ridiculous at times. I know, we haven't played for a few days, let,s find a thread to moan on.

You only have to look in this forum, to see who people would buy.
Just because they happened to see them have a good game, once.

 

[Rorz88]

Van Dijk looked inferior to Denayer whilst they were at Celtic in fairness.

I don't agree with this, watched Celtic on a number of occasions, just to watch Denayer and thought Van Dijk was equally as good if not better. He could take a freekick or 2 aswell

 

[Chipmeister]

What about giving them Denayer or a loan as a replacement, with buy back clause. Players need experience at our level but how do they get that experience with every game so crucial, it's the reason players like Van Dijk become so much more valuable after a season or more in the Premier league the experience is what clubs pay for.

 

[geoff clipp]

What about giving them Denayer or a loan as a replacement, with buy back clause. Players need experience at our level but how do they get that experience with every game so crucial, it's the reason players like Van Dijk become so much more valuable after a season or more in the Premier league the experience is what clubs pay for.

My guess is they don't want Denayer. They've got a decent track record at bringing their own youth players through so its hard to see that they'd want one of ours who hasn't managed to establish himself at Sunderland. The idea that if they were to actually manage to bring the best out of him that we would then exercise a buy back clause would be even less appealing. We clearly have no intention of developing this guy ourselves and all other clubs will know that so I doubt anyone would accept a buy back clause arrangement. A lot of our fans seem to think our youth products would just walk into the side mid table teams even though this has been proven not to be the case time and time again.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

Van Dijk looked inferior to Denayer whilst they were at Celtic in fairness.

Myth.

 

[AshLunn92]

Myth.

In fairness I will hold my hands up and say I only watched 4 games whilst they were there but in my opinion, whilst they both looked good, denayer looked significantly better. Better judgement, better going forward and somehow less "panicky"

 

[AshLunn92]

Three, arguably four are still yet to reach world class levels, some even aren't top class yet. Our recruitment over the last three years has been below par. We're not the only club to struggle though in the transfer market, so it's probably easier said than done.

Nah mate, four out of five were some of the worlds most coveted players. If you are talking about not getting enough established players then what about otamendi, fernando, de bruyne, Nolito and Bravo? (Whatever you think of bravo, otamendi and fernando, you can't deny they didn't look good when we bought them). We've bought experience, we've bought young first team players and we've cleaned up in buying under 18 youth.

We've done a damn good job. Is there room to improve? Yes. Have we made mistakes? Absolutely. Have we got one of the best recruitment teams in the world? Damn right

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

Ha

In fairness I will hold my hands up and say I only watched 4 games whilst they were there but in my opinion, whilst they both looked good, denayer looked significantly better. Better judgement, better going forward and somehow less "panicky"

ha 4 games quality

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

In fairness I will hold my hands up and say I only watched 4 games whilst they were there but in my opinion, whilst they both looked good, denayer looked significantly better. Better judgement, better going forward and somehow less "panicky"

That's called commitment. Most on here have made their minds up after a 2 minute youtube montage ;-)

 

[City_Sean]

I'd much rather us sign him than Laporte, he's at least proven in the Premier League.