I have never seen the central midfielder, Jerdy Schouten, and frankly, he doesn't seem very good at the age of 22. Maybe defensively, but I'd have to watch an hour of him on various matchday videos to make an opinion.

The left is quite good for the Dutch league at his age, but has a contract until 2022 (long time), so he wouldn't come cheap. And again.....you bring a left back from the Netherlands when you want a more grounded option for PVA, who is great attacking, but a bit flawed defensively? Well, that's exactly how all the Dutch defenders are.

On the subject of players from the Netherlands, Ajax youngsters Vaclav Cerny (21 yo) and Che Nunnely (20 yo) are finishing their contracts on the 30 of June and don't really have prospects of making the Ajax first team (or they do, but not as starters). They would welcome a higher salary and a chance to play in England. Get them, loan them to the Championship and in 1-2 years time, you might have a 15 million player ready to come in.

Also, some good options from the Netherlands are Andre Vidigal at just 20 yo from lowly Fortuna Sittard, but very talented (when you look at West Ham's second team and see they've already brought in similar players like Xande Silva and Mesaque Dju, you know they have a future) and Alkmaar's Gudmundsson (21 yo), though he would require a fee of about 2,5 million.

Not far from where I live there is a Premiership club that have made a number of signings from the Dutch League.

Of 4 highly expensive signings, only one has been a success.

Approach with caution

The other being Soufyan Ahannach who was signed 2 years ago

Yes remember him now.
Don't think he was that expensive.Possibly £500,000 ?

Edited by Willo (07 Jun 2019 6.17pm)

To be truthful I have hardly had any conversations with Brighton supporters about their team.In actual fact I have not had that many conversations with them about anything ! Don't come into contact with many Brighton supporters.

Edited by Willo (07 Jun 2019 6.37pm)