Players who might sign this summer: Bas Dost « Untold Arsenal: Arsenal News. Supporting the Lord Wenger; coach of the decade
By Tony Attwood
This series of articles is based around names of players that come up in newspapers and elsewhere as players “Arsenal are Tracking…”
Of course very few of them actually do come, but in my view it is always good to be prepared – and we have over the years even got one or two of them right.
Bas Dost was born in 1989. As a striker he plays for the Netherlands under 21 team (and has in fact played 10 times for them, scoring five times) and for SportClub Heerenveen.
Now here’s a couple of interesting pointers to expand your knowledge of European football and bore everyone stupid down the pub: Heerenveen have only ever won one major trophy: the KNVB Cup. That was on 17 May 2009. On 31 August 2009 they sacked their manager because of a poor start to the new season. Here’s another one – the manager for this coming season is Marco van Basten. Wow.
Bas Dost has only played in the Netherlands. His first transfer from his youth club to Heracles for around £280,000 where his real talent began to flourish and he signed for SC Heerenveen on 4 February 2010 on a five year contract.
On 10 December 2011, Dost scored all five goals in Heerenveen’s 5-0 win away to Excelsior and became the league’s top scorer with an amazing 32 league goals in 34 matches. In all with Heerenveen he has scored 45 goals in 66 games.
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