Daylon Claasen on trial

, Sport 24 , 22 April, 22comments | Jump to most recent

Everton are giving a trial to South African midfielder Daylon Claasen. The skilful 23-year-old is hoping to finally earn his breakthrough Premier League move by impressing David Moyes.

According to the Soccer-Laduma website, Claasen recently parted ways with his Belgian club Lierse before the end of the season due to the fact that his contract was set to expire in June, and he had no intentions of signing a new deal with the club.

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James Morgan
1 Posted 22/04/2013 at 17:00:20

It'll be like a new signing.

Steve Guy
2 Posted 22/04/2013 at 22:30:02

Season ticket sales must have been reduced to a trickle......

Karl Masters
3 Posted 22/04/2013 at 23:04:24

Could be another Pienaar so surely worth a look?

Harold Matthews
4 Posted 23/04/2013 at 03:28:30

Hope he's a mobile athlete who can tackle.

Phil Sammon
5 Posted 23/04/2013 at 06:25:27

Or another Mark Fish...

Jim Potter
6 Posted 23/04/2013 at 07:23:17

A younger version of Pienaar would be good - the current version can't seem to pass any more. Since he has cut his locks off he's like Samson - living off his old reputation.

Tom Rowe
8 Posted 23/04/2013 at 10:59:03

Looks like a talented young lad if you go by youtube. Whether he is up to the pace of the PL remains to be seen.

James Morgan
9 Posted 23/04/2013 at 11:21:45

Tom, YouTube made Bilyaletdinov look good. Fingers crossed he is a talent but he will have to wait Osman contracts polio or succumbs to Father Time before he gets a sniff.

Harold Matthews
10 Posted 23/04/2013 at 14:48:13

Bains Pass runs at Wolverhampton this afternoon.

Patrick Murphy
11 Posted 23/04/2013 at 15:13:49

Harold and Tired Blues can't be bothered to chase it.

Harold Matthews
12 Posted 23/04/2013 at 15:23:53

Wolverhampton.3.20

No3 Bains Pass finished 2nd.(lady jockey)

Yes Patrick, plenty of tired Blues about.

Andrew Ellams
13 Posted 23/04/2013 at 16:37:38

Just watched this guys youtube montage and if you are a fan of wild, speculative shots flying miles wide then he is your man.

Jake Lucas
14 Posted 23/04/2013 at 17:11:53

I can't see him adding anything to our squad. Probably just helping the kid stay fit before he finds a championship club to sign for in the summer

Bobby Mallon
15 Posted 23/04/2013 at 18:12:00

He may as well go to another club now before he is left on the bench or plays for the reserves for the next two years and his career is finished.

Peter Thistle
16 Posted 23/04/2013 at 18:24:55

Don't really see the point of taking players on trial for a week. They never get signed up cos ya can't tell enough in such a short space of time.

Jeremy Benson
17 Posted 23/04/2013 at 18:30:32

Agree with Peter. We've had loads of players on v.short trials, and rarely actually sign any up for longer.

We've also got players like barkley, velios and duffy, who can hardly get a game despite being seen 52 weeks a year.

What could it possibly tell you? That they turn up for training 5 days in a row on time?

Tom Bowers
18 Posted 23/04/2013 at 18:53:51

Somebody tell him he's wasting his time unless he's going to do odd jobs at Moyes's house for free... then he may get a game off the bench every blue moon.

Kris Boner
19 Posted 23/04/2013 at 21:19:56

Not impressed, even on YouTube. Certainly hope he proves me wrong if we sign him.

James Stewart
20 Posted 24/04/2013 at 01:13:18

Can't be any worst than Pienaar in current form

Paul Andrews
21 Posted 24/04/2013 at 07:35:02

Sell Fellaini for £23 million and sign Daylon on a free.
Great bit of business for the club

Shaun Brennan
22 Posted 24/04/2013 at 07:49:25

We don't sign players anyway.

Bob Parrington
23 Posted 24/04/2013 at 08:18:33

Not a bad looking player. Great name to go on the program.

Shaun - Even if they're FREE? Davey is a Scot after all!

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