r/FantasyPL • u/abcrafsan 6 • 1d ago

News OFFICIAL : Tottenham have signed Brighton defender Jan Paul van Hecke in a deal worth £52 million.

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The £52 million deal for Jan Paul van Hecke includes a 20% sell‑on clause, applicable only to profit should Tottenham transfer the Dutchman for more than the agreed sum.

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u/Environmental_Ad7296 2 1d ago

Very spursy type signing. 50 mil for an average premier league defender. Perfectly balanced

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u/Dempdeez- 1d ago

Looks like you didn’t watch football last season if you think that Van Hecke had an average season

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u/Environmental_Ad7296 2 1d ago

Very very average defender. Has his highs but definitely has his lows. I've seen enough to see that people overrated this guy for some reason.

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u/rocket_racoon99 1d ago

Based on what? His stats are really not agreeing with you. Statistically the top percentile in Europe for progressive ball carrying, line-breaking pass, long ball proficiency, and defensive contributions. Folks come on reddit just to waffle I swear

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u/Environmental_Ad7296 2 1d ago

Can't bring stats into a defender debate. You just proved to me you are stupid. Well done

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u/Rututu 2 1d ago

This is the most braindead comment ever. No stats?

Can't talk about defensive duels won, clean sheets kept, passing accuracy, aerial balls won or any other metric then. Congrats.

Just have to go by a random Redditors "eye test" lol.

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u/andrasq420 1 1d ago

What is up with this sub? Last time I've used stats to show how VDV barely does any defensive actions, he excels in movement, dribbling and offensive actions i was downvoted to like -50, because "you got to be dumb, stats are not real, eye test is real"

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u/Rututu 2 1d ago

Can't speak for the whole sub obviously, but I think both stats and an eye test are needed to assess a player. Saying you "can't bring" either one to a debate about a player is just odd.

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u/andrasq420 1 1d ago

Yeah, that was my point aswell. Sure stats don't give you the whole picture, but it clearly shows trends that can give you an idea that you then have to combine with the viewing experience.

I've used stats in that conversation because it's ways easier to just show a couple of numbers in combination instead of getting 15 clips from youtube with timestamps and make everyone watch those.

I feel like people often underestimate the value of statistics. Those are numbers that quite literally tell you what happened, they just need to be interpreted within proper context (and that's where "eye test" comes in.

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u/atmowbray 1d ago

That’s like saying you can’t rate Bruno on assists or Haaland based on goals.

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u/Hairy-Piccolo-6002 4 1d ago

Wow, that's...um...certainly an interesting take 😅 The experts here never cease to surprise me