Anyone seen him play? Class goal record for a 21 year old, but it's Holland.

Holland also gave us Suarez and Fat Ronaldo. Not everyone will turn out to be Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink

Watched his highlights and he looks special. Lots of different finishes and situations. Unlike Lacazette who just scores the same goal 20 times a season.

This is also a Mirror 'exclusive'. He any good?

Claudius wrote:

Holland also gave us Suarez and Fat Ronaldo. Not everyone will turn out to be Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink

That's right. Always hard to know what you get when you buy from there, might be Suarez, might be Afonso Alves. But that happens from France as well I guess.

The kid looks good, scored a lot in the second division as well...moved up a level and scored more. Nice.
Still ... I think all of us would prefer an established class striker...but that will never happen under Wenger...so...

I'm no authority whatsoever, I watched 2 and half minutes of a YouTube video on him and couldn't watch anymore because he looked a donkey to me.

Don't think he looks like a donkey at all. Seems to be able to score all kinds of goals. Maybe I'm just too used to Giroud.

The first goal alone in this video is enough for me to rule out calling him a donkey  😆

Pretty impressive from that video, bit of skill, looks quick enough, good finisher. Most importantly he's already a goalscorer.

Looks like a very good finisher, worth a gamble at 21 years of age.

looks a bit kane-ish. no obvious outstanding quality, but finds good positions and knows where the goal is. our strikers need a total revamp, including the wiltord/kanu back up role

I don't follow the Eredivisie but was told by a Dutch football fan that he has pretty impressive technique, ambidextrous too!

His development has been baffling. I didn't rate him ahead of this season, now I wonder what his ceiling is.

Very reminiscent of Ruud van Nistelrooy in Eredivisie, in that he's not a great footballer, but industrious, and a goal machine.

Van Nistelrooy wasn't a poacher in Eredivisie btw, Janssen isn't either. Really good in link-up play. And really unfazed too.

Something I just read by a Dutch football writer, I like everything I read about Janssen.

Apparently 20 of his league goals have come in 2016.

It's only a short highlight reel, but I would happily do it. But would also want Wenger to put money in a goal scoring AM like Mahrez, Griezmann, etc as well. He looks a natural. Happy to go at players. All three of our strikers are incapable of this

Goalscorers will always sell, if he doesn't work out we'll probably be able to recoup all the transfer fee.

Like vela and Campbell you can sell them anytime you want. It's the sanogos, chamack and bentners that's nobody wants.

This is the kind of guy you sign as well as Higuain or Lewandowski.

Qwiss! wrote:

This is the kind of guy you sign as well as Higuain or Lewandowski.

........ or Zlatan?

He's got potential but very very far from starting material at Arsenal. Don't think signing him is a good idea, unless we get him cheap and loan him out for a year or two.

Rosanero wrote:

I don't follow the Eredivisie but was told by a Dutch football fan that he has pretty impressive technique, ambidextrous too!

His development has been baffling. I didn't rate him ahead of this season, now I wonder what his ceiling is.

Very reminiscent of Ruud van Nistelrooy in Eredivisie, in that he's not a great footballer, but industrious, and a goal machine.

Van Nistelrooy wasn't a poacher in Eredivisie btw, Janssen isn't either. Really good in link-up play. And really unfazed too.

Something I just read by a Dutch football writer, I like everything I read about Janssen.

I never watched a lot of Van Nistelrooy when he played for PSV, but he was a brilliant footballer for Man U and not just a goalscorer. He was a better version of Lewandowski. 

Ruud was pretty brilliant for Real Madrid too for a while. I never thought I'd say this while he was still active, but he might be the most underrated striker of his generation. He won't be remembered among the greats in European football, but maybe he should be. I've never seen anyone who was better at fooling offside traps. He did that thing where he stepped up in an offside position and then got onside again right before the pass was played. Even the best centrebacks in the business got tricked every single time. Falcao tried to copy it during his Atletico days, but he was never as good.

Van Nistelrooy really was brilliant. Not quite in the same class as the best strikers around at that time - they were monsters, unlike these days - but he was a supreme goal scorer and really intelligent in every single thing he did on a football pitch.

I remember he did his cruciate just before he was due to sign for United and ended up spending another year at PSV. They said at the time that he lost just a touch of speed and mobility off the back of it, God knows how many more goals he might have scored had the injury not happened!

Would be easily the best Number 9 in the world if he were playing today, in my opinion. By a mile.

Ferguson signed him of the back of a Bobby Robson recommendation. Like the way he signed bebe without scouting him. It's like getting movie recommendations here without checking them on rotten tomatoes aswell.

The reason Ruud was never that highly rated was because of Henry IMO. He was constantly compared to him in many aspects but Henry is far superior. Ruud was often called Fox in the Box because he doesn't score from outside the box, but due to a lack of top class strikers around these days you start to appreciate strikers like him.

everytime i see this guys name i think of this

Interdimensional cable was the best thing about the show 😆

Ricky1985 wrote:

Van Nistelrooy really was brilliant. Not quite in the same class as the best strikers around at that time - they were monsters, unlike these days - but he was a supreme goal scorer and really intelligent in every single thing he did on a football pitch.

I remember he did his cruciate just before he was due to sign for United and ended up spending another year at PSV. They said at the time that he lost just a touch of speed and mobility off the back of it, God knows how many more goals he might have scored had the injury not happened!

Would be easily the best Number 9 in the world if he were playing today, in my opinion. By a mile.

Ronaldo, the last few years, for me plays as a 9 and he is clearly much better than Van Nistelrooy. I'd also take Suarez of the past few years over him as well, much more in Suarez' locker football wise. But Van Nistelrooy was a very, very good player in his day, have no doubt

Ricky1985 wrote:

I'm no authority whatsoever, I watched 2 and half minutes of a YouTube video on him and couldn't watch anymore because he looked a donkey to me.

Maybe I don't understand your definition of Donkey, but from what I saw, it was anything but donkey...  World beater?  probably not..  but decent scorer seemingly

Fucking van Nistelrooy. Still haunted by his 02/03 season

Ricky1985 wrote:

Would be easily the best Number 9 in the world if he were playing today, in my opinion. By a mile.

I think thats a massive stretch. He isn't rated as highly as the likes of Henry, Shearer, etc for very good reason, he was a one dimensional player and Fergie got rid of him for that exact reason. Good hold up and good at getting onto the end of things but thats about it. He was decent at exploiting the trap but if he played today that would be far less successful because defenders are wise to it.

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Fucking van Nistelrooy. Still haunted by his 02/03 season

Man I wanted to punch that face so bad!

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He's definitely not on the level we should be looking at. Very Spursy.