Tuesday 12 July 2016 19:32, UK
The Eredivisie's top scorer from last season is now a Premier League player after Vincent Janssen joined Tottenham - but how have the careers of Holland's other leading marksmen panned out?
Janssen's rise over the past 12 months has been remarkable and after moving to AZ Alkmaar for around €400,000 last summer, he scored 27 goals in the Dutch top flight.
He has now moved to White Hart Lane for a fee understood to be £18.6m - 55 times the amount he cost just a year ago - following the successful completion of his medical on Monday.
In the 1990s, Dutch football was a hotbed of emerging talent as the likes of Romario, Dennis Bergkamp, Ronaldo and Jari Litmanen all had turns of being the league's leading scorer.
Now, as Janssen prepares for a new start after finishing top of the charts, here's a look at what others who have done the same thing, since the turn of the century, have gone on to do…
Memphis Depay (Top scorer in 2014/15 - 22 goals)
After a sparkling season for PSV Eindhoven at the age of just 21, Depay's 22 goals in their run to the Eredivisie title saw Manchester United beat Paris St-Germain to his signature. Handed the club's iconic number seven shirt, big things were expected but the youngster's first year of his four-year deal was a disappointment as he made just 16 Premier League starts and scored only twice. He fared better in Europe, starting nine games and scoring five goals.
Alfred Finnbogason (2013/14 - 29 goals)
Finnbogason might only have played 75 minutes over three games for Iceland at Euro 2016 but it's not long since he was the talk of the Eredivisie after his 29 league goals in 2013/14 for Heerenveen. His efforts there saw Spanish side Real Sociedad sign him and he was a regular substitute in the team after David Moyes arrived at the club. Last season he struggled on loan at Olympiakos but then spent the second half of the campaign with Augsburg and scored seven times in 12 outings.
Wilfried Bony (2012/13 - 31 goals)
Bony had two prolific seasons with Vitesse Arnhem, the second of which saw him score 31 league goals and at one point he netted in 10 successive games. That earned him the Dutch Footballer of the Year prize and a £12m move to Swansea. An impressive 25 goals in his only whole campaign at the Liberty Stadium saw Manchester City sign him halfway through his second but he hasn't been as prolific there. Restricted largely to substitute appearances, he has just 10 goals in 46 games.
Bas Dost (2011/12 - 32 goals)
Another Heerenveen player, Dost was just 22 as he struck 32 goals in the 2011/12 campaign - the highlight of which for him was all five of his side's goals in a 5-0 win at Excelsior. Two other hat-tricks against Den Haag and NEC Nijmegen affirmed his star quality and Wolfsburg moved to sign him in the summer of 2012. He remains to this day and although he isn't always a starter, 19 goals in 2014/15 including four in a game at Bayer Leverkusen helped him break into the Holland squad.
Bjorn Vleminckx (2010/11 - 23 goals)
Belgian forward Vleminckx's 23 goals for NEC Nijmegen in 2010/11 - which included three hat-tricks and four goals in a game against Roda JC - was very much a one-off. Scoring 29 times in all competitions, the total is almost double what he has achieved in any other campaign. His exploits earned him a move to Club Brugge but just 10 goals in a year and a half saw him loaned to Genclerbirligi. Vleminckx did enough there to win a switch to fellow Turkish side Erciyesspor and he is now at Goztepe.
Luis Suarez (2009/10 - 35 goals)
Suarez's 35 goals for Ajax six years ago were a mere prelude for what was to come elsewhere. He remained for another half season before Liverpool bought him and after a slow start, 20 goals in his first full season showed he was building momentum. Another 61 in his next two campaigns led to Barcelona making their move and he ended his first year in Spain with a goal in the Champions League final against Juventus in May 2015, before a phenomenal 60 goals in all competitions last term.
Mounir El Hamdaoui (2008/09 - 23 goals)
Having failed to make a first-team appearance at Tottenham, then scoring only three times over two loans spanning four months at Derby, El Hamdaoui's 23 league goals for Alkmaar in 2008/09 demonstrated improvement. A spell with Ajax followed but it ended abruptly when he fell out with manager Frank de Boer and he was sold to Fiorentina. He struggled in Italy and did no better in a loan to Malaga so rejoined AZ before going to Qatari side Umm Salal in January.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (2005/06 and 2007/08 - 33 goals both times)
Huntelaar's talents were evident from an early age and halfway through the 2005/06 season, at the age of 22, Ajax bought him from Heerenveen and he continued his good scoring form to finish the campaign with 33 league goals. He repeated the feat two years later and that prompted a switch to Real Madrid but he lasted just half a season before moving on to AC Milan. A season in Italy preceded a transfer to German team Schalke, where Huntelaar has remained since 2010.
Afonso Alves (2006/07 - 34 goals)
Heerenveen paid €4.5m (£3.8m) to break their transfer record when they bought Alves from Malmo in 2006 and he repaid them with 34 league goals before promptly leaving again in January 2008 for Middlesbrough. He failed to replicate that form at the Riverside, scoring an underwhelming 13 goals in a season and a half. Brazil international Afonso opted to finish his career in the Middle East, turning out for Al Sadd, Al Rayyan and Al Gharafa before retiring last year.
Dirk Kuyt (2004/05 - 29 goals)
Before his six-year stay with Liverpool predominantly as a winger, Kuyt scored 29 times in a league season for Feyenoord as part of a run of 179 consecutive appearances. His good track record led him to Anfield and although he was less prolific in front of goal, he still scored 71 times during his stay on Merseyside. At 32, he was allowed to leave for Fenerbahce and enjoyed success there with another 30 goals over three years before he returned to first club Feyenoord last summer.
Mateja Kezman (2000/01, 2002/03 and 2003/04 - 24, 35 and 31 goals)
Chelsea fans had good reason to believe Jose Mourinho had signed a striker they could rely on when he bought Kezman from PSV in 2005 after he had been the leading scorer in Dutch football three seasons in a row. He then scored only seven goals in 40 games, just 14 of those were starts. Kezman followed his year in London with another 12 months at Atletico Madrid and following unsuccessful stints at Fenerbahce and PSG, he left his final club South China in 2012.
Pierre van Hooijdonk (2001/02 - 24 goals)
Van Hooijdonk had already spent time with Celtic and Nottingham Forest by the time he returned to Dutch football to play for Feyenoord and his first season back there saw him score 24 league goals at the age of 33. Despite his age, the striker continued to impress when he later moved to Fenerbahce and had two years there - scoring 32 goals - before going back to the Netherlands for second spells at both NAC Breda and Feyenoord ahead of his retirement in 2007.
Ruud van Nistelrooy (1999/2000 - 29 goals)
Van Nistelrooy topped the Dutch scoring charts two years running at PSV before joining Manchester United in 2001, where he hit 36 goals in all competitions in his debut campaign. After 150 goals in five seasons, he had four more years at Real Madrid and did well initially before suffering injury problems. Van Nistelrooy later had an 18-month spell at Hamburg then ended his career at Malaga.
