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Robin Roefs 🇳🇱 compendium


John J Rambo said:
The inevitable "Patterson must be away" posts 😂. How come every other position has 2 or even 3 players competing, yet it’s totally inconceivable that keepers should be same? Plus, Patterson is injured currently and rumours he could actually need an operation to sort it.
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PSR becomes a reality concern IF we somehow manage to stay up. It’s certainly a pertinent question to ask when it comes to Neil, we don’t want him leaving for nothing.
 
0321safc said:
PSR becomes a reality concern IF we somehow manage to stay up. It’s certainly a pertinent question to ask when it comes to Neil, we don’t want him leaving for nothing.
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Our maximum allowed loss for PSR will increase significantly next season, so no reason to fear over that as of now.
 
nijmegenaar said:
Hello all, I've seen all of Roefs' senior team games as I have a season ticket at NEC. Made an account here as I wanted to see what y'all thought of him and will probably be following the club if he actually gets some time on the pitch.

So some context:

Roefs was always very highly rated in the academy at our club. Joined senior team training camps from age 16 for example. Last summer, we sold Jasper Cillessen (ex Barca, Valencia, Dutch national team and also from our youth academy) so that Roefs would get enough playtime.

Seen a lot of questions here on his passing and that his stats on this aren't great. This, in my opinion, is down mostly to our playstyle last year. We started out by playing from the back quite a bit, but then some of our best build up players got injured or lost form, so most of the season he was just told to hoof it long to strikers that generally weren't great at receiving those types of passes. I think with the right players around him at the back, he's above average on the ball. He's confident with both legs and generally has a decent to good pass. Also not shy

His main weakness last year was that we conceded 2 or 3 goals from direct free kicks where Roefs didn't look well-positioned. This was all in the first half of the season though and he seems to have learned from that.

Aside from that fact that he's obviously pretty good at saving shots, the thing that we always really liked in the stadium was how much he comes off his line to grab a cross. He does that way better than the far more experienced Cillessen.

I really look forward to seeing him in the PL, hopefully he becomes the first choice GK.
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You had me at “how much he comes off his line to grab a cross”
 
PtangYang kiperbang said:
But but, Patto is from the academy, and he’s a nice lad, we should give him a chance etc
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He. certainly isn’t a bad keeper and I would be more than happy to give him a chance, but that is no reason why we shouldn’t be looking for better.
nijmegenaar said:
Aside from that fact that he's obviously pretty good at saving shots, the thing that we always really liked in the stadium was how much he comes off his line to grab a cross. He does that way better than the far more experienced Cillessen.
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That is an interesting insight, because on all the highlights videos, you obviously only see the saves and he looks rooted to his line on those.
 
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RTGAdmin said:
That is an interesting insight, because on all the highlights videos, you obviously only see the saves and he looks rooted to his line on those.
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It's great to hear from somebody who has seen him many times live, because it totally chimes with a Cillessen/Roefs data check
 
nijmegenaar said:
Hello all, I've seen all of Roefs' senior team games as I have a season ticket at NEC. Made an account here as I wanted to see what y'all thought of him and will probably be following the club if he actually gets some time on the pitch.

So some context:

Roefs was always very highly rated in the academy at our club. Joined senior team training camps from age 16 for example. Last summer, we sold Jasper Cillessen (ex Barca, Valencia, Dutch national team and also from our youth academy) so that Roefs would get enough playtime.

Seen a lot of questions here on his passing and that his stats on this aren't great. This, in my opinion, is down mostly to our playstyle last year. We started out by playing from the back quite a bit, but then some of our best build up players got injured or lost form, so most of the season he was just told to hoof it long to strikers that generally weren't great at receiving those types of passes. I think with the right players around him at the back, he's above average on the ball. He's confident with both legs and generally has a decent to good pass. Also not shy

His main weakness last year was that we conceded 2 or 3 goals from direct free kicks where Roefs didn't look well-positioned. This was all in the first half of the season though and he seems to have learned from that.

Aside from that fact that he's obviously pretty good at saving shots, the thing that we always really liked in the stadium was how much he comes off his line to grab a cross. He does that way better than the far more experienced Cillessen.

I really look forward to seeing him in the PL, hopefully he becomes the first choice GK.
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Cheers marra
 
woodlebert said:
I don't quite follow that.

Does it mean we thought Lille were coming in astronomically so we just paid the asking price to get it done, or are they saying our €10.5m was astronomical compared to their asking price?
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I think the latter but it’s not really very different.
 
woodlebert said:
I don't quite follow that.

Does it mean we thought Lille were coming in astronomically so we just paid the asking price to get it done, or are they saying our €10.5m was astronomical compared to their asking price?
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Yep confusing - if it was an astronomical offer why did they accept 10.5 from us
 
woodlebert said:
I don't quite follow that.

Does it mean we thought Lille were coming in astronomically so we just paid the asking price to get it done, or are they saying our €10.5m was astronomical compared to their asking price?
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I read the article in Dutch. It is saying Sunderland bid more than the asking price of €10m (i.e. half a million more and another 3m in add-ons) to ensure he'd go here and not to another club.

The astronomical part is mainly that our previous record transfer was €5.5m. €10.5m is about half NEC's annual budget for the whole club.
 
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