The Summertime Transfer Thread Take 2

Not much relation to Dutch football but Chelsea is talking with Lukaku and De Bruyne. For the latter one they are discussing a contraption where he is loaned to Anderlecht prior to going to London. Looks like we can rule out the possibility of him playing in the Eredivisie.

 

Anyone have an update on Sig going to Ajax?

 

Newcastle, apparently, is interested in Sulejmani, though i doubt anything will come of it. Ajax won't want to loose money on his transfer, and i doubt Newcastle will be willing to depart with nearly half of their transfer budget for him

 

Reliable PSV board member claims that Wijnaldum will sign a 4-year contract for PSV at 1th of July 2011.

 

So Wijnaldum´s wage demands are too much for financially healthy Twente while financially in trouble PSV meets his needs? That´d be the situation in Dutch football in a nutshell really.

 

Have no idea, I normally don't post these kid of rumours since they are often bullshit, but I trust him since he never posted any nonsense and has proved in the past that he knows things at PSV.

But it of course can be a reliable guy who suddenly became an attention whore.

 

If true I just think it tells a story that exemplifies the financial situation of Dutch clubs that´s all.

 

I would say that describes the financial situation in many European leagues in general, wouldn't you?

 

PSV offered 10 million for Mertens and Strootman and 1 million for Korean striker Dong-Won Ji.

Bakkal is linked to Spartak Moscow for a 5 million euro transfer.

 

What,..who's trying to push me out of the limelight

 

Don't worry, a guy called debelg, you don't have to worry losing your leading position as attention whore at BigSoccer since he will not come here.

Doubt it's true anyway.

 

I don´t think you´re getting my point.

Fact is Twente is doing well financially, while PSV are restructuring. And here we have PSV who are apparently willing to pay Wijnaldum the wages he wants, while Twente is not, and Twente not willing to move ahead with Strootman because of the too high asking price, while PSV apparently is willing to move ahead. So why again are PSV in trouble while Twente is not, financially? Well there you have it.

I´m sure Paga has more indepth knowledge about this than I do and perhaps he´ll put me right, but on the surface of it it seems odd that PSV, despite having to restructure, is still willing to pay more than financially healthy Twente.

The Dutch FA has been banging on about the majority of Dutch clubs paying silly wages for years now. The message just doesn´t hit home it seems. The irony being that you don´t actually HAVE to pay such high wages to be successful in the Dutch league.

 

On topic, I heard through the grapevine that Twente is close to signing Fer. He apparently has less elevated ideas about what he wants to earn than Wijnaldum hehehe

 

Or.. perhaps Wijnaldum just prefers PSV. Schaars also said that he would only leave AZ for Ajax or PSV in Holland.

With Ajax out of the question for Gini, PSV seems like a logical choice when looking at his future. PSV players are more appealing abroad than those at Twente, afterall look where Afellay ended up.

 

And meanwhile with all that superior status to Twente PSV hasn´t had any CL football in years and is in deep financial trouble. By the way, do you seriously believe the alleged status of PSV is more important to Schaars and Wijnaldum than the fact that PSV pays more than Twente?

 

How do you know for sure? Like Pag said, it's only gossip when nothing has been confirmed.

And even when being confirmed by your club it's still not 100% for sure, like Munsterman expressing his confusion about "new signing" Guidetti not showing up for training today lol.

Twente has been in the CL once.. how does that favor your club to PSV? All I'm saying is with their track record of bringing Stam, Ruud, Kezman, Robben etc. to big EPL clubs and with the EPL being Wijnaldum's dream it's really not that far fetched to think.

 

The fact is that Twente has performed better than PSV for years and is a club on the up while PSV is restructuring. If historical status is all that matters to Wijnaldum why would he leave Feyenoord for PSV in the first place.

An Ajax fan bigging up PSV. Whatever else is next.

 

A PSV fan bigging up Ajax

Reputation is still an important factor, it's easier to go from Ajax -> Manchester than from PSV -> Manchester than from Twente -> Manchester.

But as I said, I think the Wijnaldum rumour is not true.

 

Are we doing this again? Your logic failed in Ajax' case when someone pointed out that Ajax has only failed to end higher than Twente in 2 occasions since god knows when and with PSV being the most successful Verein this decade I don't really see your point about Twente performing better nor your argument about historical status since it's clearly not the case here.

 

Good god you traditional top three really are trying to hold on to the old biosphere!

We´ll see, it´s early days still. It´s not exactly beyond Twente to play dirty games so let´s judge this when the transfer window has closed.

 

If Ruiz played for Ajax we'd have sold him for €30M by now.

 

PSV has been outperforming Twente for decades.

 

My favorite is the one that Twente outperformed Ajax in '07-'08 because they won an end of season playoff to get a chance to qualify for the CL, completely disregarding the fact that Ajax completed the season 7 points clear and two positions ahead of Twente in the table.

As a matter of fact if that same scenario happened this season Twente would have been stuck in the playoff to qualify for the Europa League and Ajax would have been in that automatic spot for the CL qualifying round. Funny how that changes.