Well when he does turn out for Sydney FC, you can bring along a video camera and take your own videos and post them up on YouTube. lol

Anyway, seems like a good signing to add some much needed depth to the squad that all of a sudden seemed wafer thin after a sale, injury and suspension. Will just have to wait and see how he fits into the FC system but surely it is better option than having to get a midfielder to play out of position at the heart of defence.

Somebody mentioned that the defender was going to be some Serbian dude and I looked him up on youtube and I found a video of him making covering tackles and clearing headers. So you are wrong, such videos do exist, but highlights videos do not show mistakes a defender makes and that is very important. 

This deserves some applause

First thought there is Zwaansvijk hand-picked his replacement at CCM in Marcel Seip who turned out to be a dud. I guess any player is a ganble though.

Good resume.

He's got a resume Jurman or Ryall could never hope to match. Let's see what's left after his injury.

Nice, replace Jurman defender with a Dutch one 

How many highlights videos has anyone seen of someone making cover tackles or clearing headers? None. Highlights are just that, the sort of things that grab people's attention. Getting a clean sheet won't get you on the news, but scoring the winning goal will.... So of course he shows his goals and not his tackles. 

Hopefully he can defend though! Decent pedigree and age. Not many/any genuine ball playing defenders in the HAL. Could really boost our attack, so long as he's solid in defence. Can't see him being worse than Ryall though

Nothing gets past you , does it ?

looks solid on paper,  but I haven't been able to find any good video of him defending.  All the highlights I could randomly find were of free kicks, goals etc.  Makes him seem like a really attacking player, not sure how that is going to go with us. 

Spot on. No coincidence surely. 

just watching his video he seems like quite a character on the pitch, almost gascoigne-esque, quite an unusual type of centre back

By going Dutch I assume he is paying for himself.

Yup thats what I was thinking. More likely to be Arnies Dutch contacts through Breda than Griffiths.

He also played a number of years at NAC Breda, where Zwaansvijk came from and Arnold is a legend. So the same contacts used for Zwaansvijk would probably have been put to use.

He arrives early next week, so won't be available for the derby.

The most promising thing about this signing is he played at Roda with Rostyn Griffiths. I would have thought Arnie would have really pushed Rostyn into if he's quality or not, and they both have the same reference to point in Patrick Zwaansvijk to compare to. So I imagine Arnie would have asked Rostyn for a direct comparison, and the signing would have been based off that advise. 

Monday.

When did he fly into Sydney? I just read that he might start on Saturday night.

Having watched some of his highlights I still don't know what to make of him. Looks more a Grant, Zullo replacement more than a Jurman one. Highlights can be deceptive but from them it looks like he's a defender who will take a lot of intercepts like Bosschaart and then unlike Bosschaart power forward into attack. Not sure how that will fit in with the system we are playing.
It will be interesting to see how he goes. I don't recall having seen such a seemingly attack minded CB play in the a-league before.

Definitely looks promising! If he can gel with the team quickly the defence may be even more formidable then the first half of the season

Looks extremely promising, although you just never know with foreign signings. This could make or break our season.

never had a red card, averages only about 3 yellows per season, scored 3 penalties in a match once, strong at taking set pieces only major injury was out for 9 months in 2014/2015 with an ACL 

Could be good or could be a dud, we shall see. 

Could be a good signing, hope he isn't. :)

Yes because we obvouisly are trying to actively sign all of Papadopoulos, Williams, Thwaite and Bruijs and it wasnt the club looking at multiple options for one spot. 

Club had mentioned though that we'd saved money on the Redmayne/Vedran swap and Jurman was on a fair bit so there was definitely cash there to make one good signing. 

Haha, sounds like you've simply been played ;)

Every time I have eaten with Jurs he's made me pay for his cevapi that's why. 

Why would you assume that?

Seems the guy is coming from a club that was not even paying wages, come to a good country and join a club that is top of the league for 4 months and be guaranteed to get paid. Not sure he would be demanding too much.

Also Rhys Williams isn't too concerned about $ either, having offered to pay out his own contract.

Assuming he gets paid more than Jurman, and with them also trying to get a very $ (by local standards) Rhys Williams, Sydney have to be congratulated for doing a maginificant job of fitting all these players under their cap...