Do you remember Class Jan Huntelaar?

[deselina]

He has signed for Real Madrid.

I always follow the Mickey Mouse leagues and I believe there is a lot of talent there who can make the step up to bigger clubs.

Huntelaar was once of those players and he finally signed for a decent size club. I believe he's a striker.

 

[mil1lion]

So operation Arshavin does not exist? Great.

 

[Partizan]

He has signed for Real Madrid.

I always follow the Mickey Mouse leagues and I believe there is a lot of talent there who can make the step up to bigger clubs.

Huntelaar was once of those players and he finally signed for a decent size club. I believe he's a striker.

 

[tototoner]

good stuff, happy for him

 

[donny1013]

I follow Barca but i will be keeping an eye out for how KJH does at Real. RvN is a big loss to Real so there is going to be big pressure on Huntelaar straight away. I think he has an ankle knock at the moment which will keep him out till mid January so it might take him a bit of time to get back to match fitness. Weird that 10 years ago it was Barca with the mass Dutch contigent now it is Real.

 

[Bronno]

Never heard of him....

I so wanted Huntelaar in the summer, him and Arshavin - that was the dream. Lost count of the amount of times those two were written down as my front line on one of the numerous scraps of paper around my desk. Modric behind, Bentley right, Capel left.... Good days.

 

[donny1013]

KJH has now officially signed for Real for January a statement says on the clubs website. £23million was the price, i remember a sulky Frenchman went there for around the same price and scored twice......

 

[SpurSince57]

Rather them than us.

 

[PT]

The ITKs can slip back under now that one has proven to fall on a rocky hard place.

 

[Kendall]

Rather them than us.

You seem to have it in for Huntelaar and I'm not sure why. He's not really done anything but prove he's quality at whatever level he's been presented with.

 

[SpurSince57]

The ITKs can slip back under now that one has proven to fall on a rocky hard place.

I don't think we've had any ITK linking us more than peripherally with him.

You seem to have it in for Huntelaar and I'm not sure why. He's not really done anything but prove he's quality at whatever level he's been presented with.

I don't have it 'in' for him. I just doubt that in practice he'd be any more effective than what we have.

 

[sunnydelight786]

I don't think we've had any ITK linking us more than peripherally with him.



I don't have it 'in' for him. I just doubt that in practice he'd be any more effective than what we have.

That's about right, not good enough for us but good enough for the self proclaimed biggest club in the world. If, and when, he starts knocking them in for Madrid I wonder what excuse you will make for saying he was not good enough for us...

I know you watch alot of Dutch football and see it as a Mickey mouse league, but this Mickey mouse league has on a regular basis supplied top clubs around Europe with quality players.

 

[SpurSince57]

He may do well in Spain, but again, that's a different story, isn't it? Kanoute's been banging them in there—but he never did in England. Morientes flopped massively in the EPL. Would Huntelaar reproduce his Eredivisie form here? I don't think he would. He might do as well as Bent or Pav, but no better. Not much point in signing him, then.

 

[InOffMeLeftShin]

He is clearly a good player and it is good for him that he will be testing himself at a higher level. It is difficult to know how players will do when moving from Holland or France into the big leagues. Some players who have been prolific their haven't prospered in other places. Huntelaar is definately a good finisher though that isn't in doubt.

I think the issue may be more that players that have historically done well in the Premiership have either been very fast, very physically strong, or have a great footballing brain. Almost every top striker in the Premiership has one or more of these. Maybe these players are suited to the English game because of the pace and physicality of it. Huntelaar while being a very good striker, who may have done well in England, it is impossible to prove he wouldn't have, doesn't actually possess any of those characteristics. Therefore £23m would have been a lot of money for a clearly good striker who might not have suited the English game.

 

[Chaplain]

He may do well in Spain, but again, that's a different story, isn't it? Kanoute's been banging them in there—but he never did in England. Morientes flopped massively in the EPL.

The reverse could be true - just look at Torres. Even someone like Benni McCarthy can come from the portugese league and do well here (and others might flop, hard). Sometimes it's down to the club they join and the style they're used to. Who's to say Morientes would've flopped at a different club from Liverpool? He had all the assets to be a top striker, sometimes it can be down to the system employed. Nobody has been banging them in regularly for them since Owen (apart from the beforementioned Torres). Huntelaar has shown all the makings to be the next Nistelrooy, who's been banging them in both here and in Spain.

 

[Scutch]

Dutch players tend to do well in Spain, TBH. Particularly strikers and wingers.

 

[Petyr]

He has signed for Real Madrid.

I always follow the Mickey Mouse leagues and I believe there is a lot of talent there who can make the step up to bigger clubs.

Huntelaar was once of those players and he finally signed for a decent size club. I believe he's a striker.

Real Madrid may sign all Dutch internationals but this wouldn't help them winning the title in Spain :razz:

 

[deselina]

they already did twice in a row, this year they go for the champions league.

 

[SpurSince57]

That's about right, not good enough for us but good enough for the self proclaimed biggest club in the world. If, and when, he starts knocking them in for Madrid I wonder what excuse you will make for saying he was not good enough for us...

I know you watch alot of Dutch football and see it as a Mickey mouse league, but this Mickey mouse league has on a regular basis supplied top clubs around Europe with quality players.

Well, pardon me for actually having watched a player and passing an opinion that isn't based on FM. Note that I'm not saying he's shit, just that I very much doubt that he'll come anywhere near to replicating his Eredivisie form in the EPL. I could be wrong, but £20m (or the thick end thereof) is an awful lot of money to pay for a striker who in practice is unlikely to be any better than Bent.

Alves, who actually looked better-equipped to succeed in England, hasn't exactly been tearing up trees. The Eredivisie's current top goalscorer is one Mounir El Hamdaoui—remember him?

 

[Adam]

they already did twice in a row, this year they go for the champions league.

Not. A. Chance.