Huntelaar on the move
Ajax striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar says he is ready to leave the club at the end of the season and move to better and bigger things abroad. Huntelaar has been linked with many clubs over the past few seasons including: Man United, Man City, Arsenal, Real Madrid, Juventus, Lyon and Liverpool. These clubs will be on red alert once the season ends, to notch up one of Europe's most gifted strikers.
Some reports have already suggested that Juventus have agreed a deal in principle to sign the Dutch striker but wheter or not he does sign for the club is another question. "I feel ready for a new experience abroad," he told the Dutch press. "At the end of the season, I'll leave." I personally would love to see Huntelaar in the Premier League because I feel he has the attributes to become a Premier League great.
He is a tall and athletic striker that has scored endless amounts of goals with the club from Amsterdam but I feel it is time he tested himself in a higher league (with all due respect to Eredivisie), like Serie A or the Premier League. I would guess he would cost around 20 million euros for any club to acquire his services and I'm sure that will turn out to be great value for money for whoever buys him.
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You can scratch one of the "big-name" clubs off the Huntelaar search list.
Arsenal will not pursue him at any price.
No disrespect to Huntelaar, but Wenger seeks very specific types of players. Technical skill is important, but pace is an absolute must.
Look at the club that currently leads the Premier League. Then look at the next group of young players who dominated Newcastle in the third round of Carling Cup.
The one common denominator is that everyone in an Arsenal shirt can get up and down the pitch like a blur -- and they can do it all day long.
This is type of game Wenger sees as the future of the sport, and he will build accordingly. Note that the two "big" strikers he's brought aboard -- Adebayor and now Bendtner -- both can run exceptionally well for their size. Ade has amazing pace, in fact, for any size.
Huntelaar is a skilled goal scorer and he'll thrive somewhere, no doubt.
But in the Ajax tournament prior to this season, he played against Arsenal and was a non-factor. The game moved too fast for him. I'd heard so much about Huntelaar, I couldn't wait to see him and by halftime I knew he couldn't play for the Gunners if Wenger were offered him for free.
This isn't a knock on Huntelaar, by the way. Great as he's been, I don't think Wenger would rate Drogba for Arsenal's type of play, either.
It'll interesting to see where this Dutch scoring machine winds up.
I'll have a guess that it's Juve, where ultimately he can take over power-in-the-box duties from the aging Trezeguet.