It’s official, Newcastle United have signed Vurnon Anita from Ajax! Anita will take the number eight shirt at Newcastle and has signed on a five-year deal.
Newcastle manager Alan Pardew is clearly very pleased to sign the 23-year-old and told the Official Newcastle United website: “We are delighted to secure the services of Vurnon. He is an exceptionally talented footballer with great technical ability, which is exactly what I’m looking at in a player. And, at 23-years-old, we hope his best years are at Newcastle.”
Anita himself is equally as happy with the move and has said: “I won almost everything in Holland so the step was not difficult to make. Now I think we can also win trophies with Newcastle and it’s time to do that.”
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Vurnon also revealed that Newcastle goalkeeper and countryman Tim Krul helped to convince him to sign for the Magpies, adding: “He [Krul] told me to join Newcastle, and said it was a very nice club with great supporters and everything is nice and that he would like me to come here. I trust him so I think we can have a nice time here.”
Anita finally let us know what his preferred position is, stating: “I talked to the manager and the coach and they know that I want to play in a defensive midfield place and that’s why they brought me here. But I can play at left-back or right-back, so that’s also no problem.”
Here is Vurnon Anita putting pen to paper at Newcastle:
Let’s hope he can have a very successful five years at Newcastle!
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