Ranking Newcastle's Transfer Dealings 2014-15 - Incomings

3. Daryl Janmaat - Signed For £5 Million (From Feyenoord)

Appearances (All Competitions): 40 Minutes Played (Premier League): 3,255 Assists (All Competitions): 6 Goals (All Competitions): 1 Yellow Cards (Premier League): 6 Red Cards (Premier League): 1

Season Rating: 7.5 Value-For-Money Rating: 8.5 If the season had ended in March then Janmaat would have been on for a score of 8.5 or even 9 for his campaign, because up until that point the Dutch international was exceptional. A constant threat in attack - providing six assists from full-back - and the Magpies' best defender by a country mile this season, the 25-year-old looked an upgrade on the departed Mathieu Debuchy, despite costing £10 million less than the Frenchman was sold to Arsenal for. In fact, Janmaat contributed six league assists in 2014-15 - with only Everton's Leighton Baines (nine) and Real Madrid's Marcelo (seven) providing more. However, a stupid sending off away at Leicester City and a number of performances in which he looked disinterested towards the end of the campaign have affected his rating. Still arguably Newcastle's best player throughout 2014-15, and the club will do well to keep hold of him. Janmaat gets a value-for-money rating of 8.5 because even though £5 million is a reasonable-sized outlay for a full-back, it proved to be a bargain when you consider Debuchy departed for £15 million. That piece of business worked with a net £10 million profit - and arguably gave the Magpies a better full-back than the one who left...