Radja Nainggolan

we could get reach to indonesia by default (he is half indonesian i think)

How do you mean he's not perfect for a possession based football? Roma plays exactly that type of football, most of the time they dominate their opponent like against Juventus, Sampdoria, both games vs Feyenoord etc, vast majority of them. Or I've been watching something else?

He's exactly the type of player I think van Gaal will go for, too much similarities with Vidal, the player van Gaal rates very highly. He's not on the same level as Vidal has been pre injury but van Gaal is proved to be able to turn shit into gold already so I think Nainggolan, who is almost gold in my book, would improve massively under his belt.

He is exactly that type of a #8 he wants to bring in.

Don't get me wrong Nemanja, I've been saying for a while that he is the type of profile we're lacking, a box-to-box destroyer to add some serious bite and muscle.

But when I hear that LVG dropped Herrera for so long because he thought he was wasteful and "careless" at times, I don't see how LVG would justify bringing in Nainggolan who is far more careless and wasteful at times. He does have immense quality, and has that ability to accelerate the game in a split of second with a well placed pass (sometimes Carrickesque passing!). But for every successful one, there is one or a couple of misplaced ones. That feature, combined with his ball-winning capabilities makes him an interesting player for a counter-attacking style imo.

I do think Nainggolan could be converted to LVG's "philosophy" and that specific possession/tactical approach, because he does have some skills with a ball at his feet and has good passing quality (unlike many "destroyers"), but that won't happen overnight. Hence why I don't know if LVG would go for him, knowing there will be work to be done. Wouldn't LVG prioritise someone who would fit in straight away? That's the question I am asking.

But as far as I am concerned, I would very much like someone like Nainggolan to add that bite and that muscles we have been lacking for too long. But you can find other players, who are naturally more "tidy", who would add what we're missing and yet satisfy LVG's tactical criteria (based on what we have seen this season of course, as no one quite knows what he has in mind for this summer). Players who spring to mind are Schneiderlin and Kondogbia.