Patrick van Aanholt

[BenIsLegend 475]

Fox Sports Netherlands report Patrick van Aanholt has passed his Sunderland medical and signed a four-year contract.

[Tomo 21,733]

i hope theres a buy-back clause

I don't

[Korea 734]

Sunderland has another loanee I thought they were going to sign, Alonso, but I guess PVH will be their starter?

Poyet did a pretty good job fighting them out of relegation and bringing some south americans in.

[Madmax 9,219]

Sunderland has another loanee I thought they were going to sign, Alonso, but I guess PVH will be their starter?

Back at Fiorentina.

[Madmax 9,219]

Officially official.

Van Aanholt departs
NEWS

Patrick van Aanholt has today (Friday) joined Sunderland on a permanent transfer.

The Dutch left-back moved to Stamford Bridge from PSV Eindoven in 2007.

Van Aanholt quickly established himself as a regular in our reserve side shortly after joining, and then spent the first half of the 2009/10 season on loan at Coventry City.

After playing seven times for Newcastle United early in 2010 he moved back to the Blues, making his debut for the club as a substitute in a 5-0 win over Portsmouth. He also came off the bench in our 7-1 win over Aston Villa en route to the Premier League title.

The following season saw Van Aanholt score his first Chelsea goal, in a League Cup tie against Newcastle, before he joined Leicester City for the remainder of the campaign.

He spent a brief period on loan at Wigan Athletic early in the 2011/12 season, before returning to his native Holland and Vitesse Arnhem.

The youngster impressed to such an extent he was loaned back to Vitesse for the whole of the 2012/13 season, playing regularly and consistently as they finished fourth in the Eredivisie.

Ahead of the 2013/14 season it was agreed that Van Aanholt would again return to Vitesse, with his impressive form towards the end of the season earning him a place in the provisional Dutch World Cup squad.

We would like to thank Patrick for his service and wish him the best of luck for the future.

[DavidEU 2,023]

Hopefully he'll get game time there and do well.

Good luck, Pat.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Another case of the "the Kakutas", a player with great potential but a poor attitude. Maybe he'll get a decent run of games at Sunderland and show us what he's made of, but he's nowhere near good enough for our first team IMO.

[didierforever 7,349]

bye-bye. any idea of the fee?

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

i hope theres a buy-back clause

Why would Sunderland buy him then? People are so obsessed with not losing talent that they want to put buy-back clauses on every player but there is a reason they are really never included.

@iii3 Second choice LB is I think, pretty obviously, Azpilicueta.

[nyikolajevics 2,577]

He's 24! When are we going to buy him back?

We just bring our 36-years-old ex-player back Matic was 25 when we resigned him so if Pat turns to be a good player why not?

i hope theres a buy-back clause

We can buy him back anyway... It's Sunderland, all we need to pay a couple of millions if we want him back.

Another case of the "the Kakutas", a player with great potential but a poor attitude. Maybe he'll get a decent run of games at Sunderland and show us what he's made of, but he's nowhere near good enough for our first team IMO.

Kakuta was a big failure in professional level, he was a benchwarmer in Lazio and Vitesse. Van Aanholt has been one of the best Dutch leftbacks, he was included in the previous WC-squad. Probably he is not in our level but it's not fair to compare him to Kakuta, who was almost kicked out of Vitesse because of behavior.

[sherry33 234]

any idea about the fee?

Im curious about this too.

[Korea 734]

Im curious about this too.

sunderland forum said around 2-3m euros

[sherry33 234]

sunderland forum said around 2-3m euros

I was expecting more after Bertrand and Borini rumours.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Luckily for him Marcos Alonso won't come back to Sunderland next season, so the left-back spot is up for grabs.

Good luck Pat!

[ja1 1,166]

I'm actually quite interested to see how this move goes, for £1.5m Sunderland may well have got a potential bargain for a position they've been very weak in past few seasons. Unfortunate for PVA that he couldn't make it here, 2 seasons ago quite a lot had written him off (me included) but he's progression last 2 seasons has been promising, he's at an important stage in his career well and if all goes well he could easily be a Dutch regular and get a move to a bigger club in 2-3+ seasons..we'll see.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Another case of the "the Kakutas", a player with great potential but a poor attitude. Maybe he'll get a decent run of games at Sunderland and show us what he's made of, but he's nowhere near good enough for our first team IMO.

"The Kakutas" . Nice little phrase that I'll add to my vocabulary if you don't mind.

[didierforever 7,349]

Free transfer apparently. So ba, marin and pva for a combined 9mil euros.

Oh well!!!

[Madmax 9,219]

I was expecting more after Bertrand and Borini rumours.

He had 1 year on his contract.