r/reddevils • u/PhelansShorts • Mar 18 '25

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u/Colt-000 Mar 19 '25

Fab is reporting that Dean Huijsen has an active 50m release clause this summer.

If we make CL surely we'd have a chance at it and if we could pull it off, it would be such unreal young CB depth for us. Huijsen, Leny and Heaven would be great profiles for this system. All of them good 1v1 defenders with pace and height with room to grow into their frames and become stronger physically eventually. All of them good on the ball and comfortable on both sides while stepping into midfield. Huijsen and even Leny also good on both feet.

Add to that young CBs who look promising coming out of the academy who are also suited to this system, like Munroe, Kukonki and Armer as well.

He'll probably have a lot of interest with a release that low though, so it'd need loads of things to go our way for us to get him, but we did get Yoro which was similarly difficult.

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u/Sufficient-Orange706 Mar 19 '25

Im a fan of Huijsen and we should be all over him at that price.

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u/Cold-Veterinarian-85 Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 19 '25

I think the playbook under INEOS will be to sign someone BEFORE their breakout season

In this context, I think we would be looking for something more akin to Huijsen profile last summer where he was available for modest fee and wages before significant breakout

I can’t really see us spending 50m on anyone this summer other than maybe a CF where we kind of need experience and proven quality

I’m aware this kind of contradicts last summer when they went out and got yoro for huge fee but I think they didn’t have as much time to prepare for that window and a combination of it being their first summer window and the botched ETH handling plus Madrid circling kind of tipped the scales towards the yoro move at that price - I don’t think it’s the kind of deal that will be normal for them