[Albion] Joel Veltman signs from Ajax in a 3-year deal

[peterward]

Still the best £0.9m EVER spent.

Signed at age 28, a Dutch international in the recent past, 53 UEFA club games under his belt. To my mind a £15m plus player.

It's a deal, it's a steal, it's the sale of the f**king century!

 

[Weststander]

Deserving of more caps, or have they got great RB’s just now?

 

[aolstudios]

Deserving of more caps, or have they got great RB’s just now?

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They have Dumfries, at Inter. Who's admittedly a bit good. JV was in last years Euros squad though

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Needs a song. Fantastic consistent player.

 

[Sirnormangall]

He rarely lets us down and has put in some great performances, but today must have been one of his best for us.

 

[clarkey]

Needs a song. Fantastic consistent player.

Joel V to the tune of Jolene, you’re welcome

 

[Dave the hatosaurus]

Absolutely love the very bones of the man .
Still cannot help feeling he was robbed of player of the season last year , possibly due to dodgy voting ?

 

[Billy in Bristol]

Absolutely love the very bones of the man .
Still cannot help feeling he was robbed of player of the season last year , possibly due to dodgy voting ?

Trump has gone on about nothing else since...

 

[Munkfish]

Needs a song. Fantastic consistent player.

We met him in a bar in old Amsterdam
He was smoking a spliff he was drinking a can
Oh Joely Veltman, oh oh Joely Veltman.

 

[WhingForPresident]

One of the best bits of transfer business we have ever done. Top player.

 

[Perkino]

Our best player at defending

 

[brighton_tom]

As I understand it his low £900k fee was something set by Ajax in order to let him easily join a Premier League club, as it was a desire of his to play in this league, and they wanted to let this happen as a sort of parting gift for his years of good service. But..how did that Premier League come to be us? If it was common knowledge that a player of his quality was available for £900k then surely most of the league would be interested, or do we have any connections to Ajax that would have helped us quietly get the deal done?

 

[Originunknown]

As I understand it his low £900k fee was something set by Ajax in order to let him easily join a Premier League club, as it was a desire of his to play in this league, and they wanted to let this happen as a sort of parting gift for his years of good service. But..how did that Premier League come to be us? If it was common knowledge that a player of his quality was available for £900k then surely most of the league would be interested, or do we have any connections to Ajax that would have helped us quietly get the deal done?

Joel has mentioned in interviews that Davy Propper commended and endorsed the club prior to signing.

 

[Eric the meek]

As I understand it his low £900k fee was something set by Ajax in order to let him easily join a Premier League club, as it was a desire of his to play in this league, and they wanted to let this happen as a sort of parting gift for his years of good service. But..how did that Premier League come to be us? If it was common knowledge that a player of his quality was available for £900k then surely most of the league would be interested, or do we have any connections to Ajax that would have helped us quietly get the deal done?

I read that we had been tracking him for two years, and we were aware of the low price, way before he joined us.

We clearly take our recruiting seriously and play a loooong game.

 

[Machiavelli]

Absolutely love the very bones of the man .
Still cannot help feeling Bissouma was robbed of player of the season last year, due to dodgy voting

Corrected for you

 

[Machiavelli]

As I understand it his low £900k fee was something set by Ajax in order to let him easily join a Premier League club, as it was a desire of his to play in this league, and they wanted to let this happen as a sort of parting gift for his years of good service. But..how did that Premier League come to be us? If it was common knowledge that a player of his quality was available for £900k then surely most of the league would be interested, or do we have any connections to Ajax that would have helped us quietly get the deal done?

Oh, I can answer this in two words: Paul Winstanley.

 

[Springal]

Agent would have been shopping him around and making the £900k release clause known. Helped we had some Dutch players around no doubt

 

[aolstudios]

Our best player at defending

This. Not even close, tbh

 

[seagullwedgee]

That bit yesterday where JV won a blockbuster 50/50 smash right down in front of us, and then raised his clenched fists in front of us with a massive “come on” which lifted our noise another few decibels. Was one of those iconic footie moments, bloody brilliant, well done JV. Great performance, again.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

That bit yesterday where JV won a blockbuster 50/50 smash right down in front of us, and then raised his clenched fists in front of us with a massive “come on” which lifted our noise another few decibels. Was one of those iconic footie moments, bloody brilliant, well done JV. Great performance, again.

Great post - it was brilliant……