I disagree, Valdes will be anything but happy to sit on the bench for another year, especially behind someone who is nowhere near as established or highly regarded as the man he was behind last year.
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If LvG tries to sign Cillessen as first choice he's taking the absolute piss, tbf.
Have you watched him more than a couple of times or are you judging primarily on reputation?
Would be a very underwhelming signing, but then again, I've watched him around 10 times, give or take. So he might be better than I think.
Don't you round up on me!
Well either way, if we can improve our team as a whole as we should, we'll be far less reliant on having a world beater of a goalkeeper.
This can't actually be real, he's a country mile off being good enough. If we sign him that will handicap us immediately, we'll have 2 keepers that are not of the required level and both will be a bullseye for every team we play.
Watched him a good few times....Doesn't fill me with confidence.
Don't be an arse.
He had to sub him for penalties. So, if he suits the system, what he gonna do?! Sub him everytime we concede a penalty?
i hope this is a joke
dont want him
he's bad, bad, baad
dont want him
he's bad, bad, baad
If we sign him he will probably compete with Valdes for the #1 spot.
So GifLord does give opinions. is the account shared?i hope this is a joke
dont want him
he's bad, bad, baad
Not sure if Cillessen is good enough, but why do people keep mentioning him being switched out for Krull for the penalty shootout in the World cup? That was a tactical switch by LVG because Krull is better at saving penalties. During our Champions league final against Chelsea, Fergie put Nani and Anderson into the match because he knew that their was going to be a shootout, it;s just a tactical switch.
No thank you
Lloris, Leno, Oblak, Cech, Ter Stegan all better than him.
Lloris, Leno, Oblak, Cech, Ter Stegan all better than him.
God help him if we do sign him, he'll have half his own fans on his back from day one. 
Cillessen hasn't saved a penalty in his career so far.
If so, should check out the US U-20 keeper, Zach Steffen. He saves them for fun.
Seriously, if LVG signs Cillessen, he'd be choice 1b to Valdes 1a. You don't want 2 starting GK's, neither of which is EPL battle-hardened.
This does seem like Blind all over again and it didn't take long for him to shut up his doubters
Apart from the WC I've never seen him play but he looked fine there
Apart from the WC I've never seen him play but he looked fine there
Don't know the stats as far as saving penalties, but it's not like he will never save one. If Hoek thinks he can work with Cillessen, then i would not question the transfer, if it is LVG, then i would worry. Hoek has a reputation of being a top goalkeeping coach, so he might have seen something in Cillessen that he liked.
The Dutch league is notorious for weak defenders. Stam was the last quality Dutch defender from what I can remember and there have been like 15 years now. For every VdS there are 100 Van der Gouw's.
Also being 26 with 60-70(for Ajax) games in Eredivisie doesn't fill me with confidence.
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Agreed. Nothing wrong with him at all, and wouldn't be surprised to see him come in and quietly shut the doubters up.
Is it true that Valdez is on +100k a week? It would be stupid to have a second GK that is paid that much.
His handling is impeccable and he makes great use of his legs. Im starting to warm up to the idea of signing him. We have so many other options too.
Valdes only has barely a year left on his contract, I don't think the club bought him as the long term solution anyway. He was here mostly for his rehabilitation from his injury.
Normally, Monaco are paying almost all of it.
Fancy footwork
So I take it he's never faced one from Rooney or van persie
"Sources in the Netherlands, meanwhile, have played down the notion that United may sign the Ajax goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen to replace De Gea. United manager Louis van Gaal is thought to have indicated privately weeks ago Cillessen was not his target."
From Independent article.
From Independent article.
Having seen pretty much every Ajax match this season I can only completely agree with you. Has a lot of good moments, the occasional shit moments and is pretty much always level headed and cool. With Vermeer declining, he saw a chance and took it.
Important to note however, is the fact that he recently signed a new deal and expressed his desire to stay at Ajax. If he's making a transfer, it will be to a club where he is #1, he won't want to lose his spot as the NT goalkeeper.
All this negativity is because he looks like a massive pussy- that is all. We need to look past the pussy.
I just don't think we should replace our only world class player with this guy. Our squad is getting worse not better it seems
I know, I've also read that article. I think Cillessen knows staying at Ajax will be best for him, he's a late bloomer(?) at 26 and is at a good club where he's guaranteed first choice to develop. He's been on the bench alot in his carreer and only played 2 seasons at Ajax now, there is no rush for him to move as he said so himself. This transfer rumour is Dutch connection bollocks.
Besides that I'm sure van Gaal wants a keeper who's better at sweeping or has the potential to. Cillessen is decent at it but it's not really his strong point yet. Lindegaard didn't fit the keeper profile and that's why van Gaal said he signed Valdes, whatever keeper he signs if de Gea leaves will fit that profile too.
So Mata, Van Persie, Rooney and Di Maria are not world class?
Indeed. A pussy wouldn't do what I posted in the video above
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