Alex Ferguson has done it again. He's brought in a world record buy. This time it is a massive £10.75 million on the 25-year Old Dutch world cup defender Jaap Stam.

He will be a great player for United and lets hope that he lives up to all expectations. He was the Dutch player of the year in 1997/98 season, when he played for PSV Eindhoven. United bought him before he went to the World Cup in 1998, and rightly so because his value increased immensely with his great performances at the back for Holland. He had a successful world cup playing a magnificent game against Brazil in the Semi-final, unluckily going out in the same game on penalties.

He has been a Manchester United fan since he was a little kid and so this is his dream come true. He took some advice off Marc Overmars, and Denis Bergkamp too come to England and we must thank them two for helping us get him over here. But when he found out United were interested there wasn't to much persuading to be done.

Jaap should be a favorite with the Manchester crowd, and hopefully he will become a United GREAT. He will have a lot of great players around him, so he will improve as time goes by and United will make him into a greater player than he is now.

Jaap has great pace for such a big man, this will strengthen Uniteds defence and will be a great bonus for the European competitions.

He himself is an international player and he will be playing with other great internationals, including Gary Neville, Philip Neville, Ronny Johnsen, Denis Irwin and Peter Schmeichel. Things can only get better for United.

His debut was in the Charity Shield where he played against Arsenal and then his first Premier League debut will come 6 days later when Leicester travel to Old Trafford. After his performances he received a lot of criticism but that will soon die down and he will get on with doing a good job at the back with is partner, Ronny Johnsen. JAAP WELCOME TO ENGLAND!!