[Link] Japanese playmaker Hiroki Yamada

You can't generalise players by where they're from, especially as we've signed very few players from the Far East. Other clubs have had massive success in the East Asian markets, look at BVB with Kagawa. Every time we're linked with a Japanese, Chinese or Korean player, some moron comes out with "Koki Mizuno" or "Du Wei". If that's the extent of their input, they clearly know * all about football.

 

this bhoy looks good if he shows up well we could get him for a 1m max as hes in last year of contract

 

gaulds price could be to high for us i think we will try for him and see wot it is to pay

 

100% this, would rather see Gauld here.

 

wasn't making any generalizations about Asian players was just responding to the fact that ki and naka were being listed as successful players here while mizuno was being listed as a failure. While ki did make a lot more appearances than mizuno he was at no time a guaranteed starter and aside from the 6 million pounds Swansea gave us for him he didn't really accomplish much.

 

never really got that because he was pretty much a first team starter at Swansea and there fans thought he was awesome, strange one. ah well

 

new coach at swansea wanted something different in the MF. For those saying he couldn't hack it in the EPL, he was rated highly at an impressive Swansea

 

He won the cup with Swansea - their first I believe.

He now runs the midfield for Stoke.

Fine player - I would have him back any day.

 

Plays for Sunderland does he not?

 

*Sunderland

But yeh, agreed. He is doing well in Poyet's new system and he wants him to make the move permanent. Always liked Ki.

 

Tidy player with good close control and technical skill, looks heavily left sided but so was Naka

He'd be kick ti f''k in the SPL, if he could deal with that then grand.

 

here an idea sign Yamada and Gauld Simples!

 

He does!

 

we should be looking at japan and asia for players i remember being super impressed at the confederations cup last year they moved the ball around well with all players comfortable on the ball

 

Im guessing thats who I just saw at the airport. Him and a translator/agent off a flight from Gatwick being met by a club rep.

 

Guess lawell thinks China and Japan are the same thing

 

Why. Can't we look for a player like son of Bayer Leverkusen

 

Scored some crackers in the video I saw of him.

 

I hope we sign him. If he reads this page even he`d be cheesed off with these Mt. Fuji F-ing snow Flakes.

Somebody get Hiroki a bowl of Ice-cream & Jelly. :icon_mrgreen:

 

my friend who is a Japanese football writer told me he is brilliant. he is not gonna be a marketing signing. I want him in Jan