new keeper at last.

[Jack]

Swansea City have signed Dorus De Vries on a two-year contract after the Dutch goalkeeper passed a medical.
The 26-year-old was out of contract with Scottish side Dunfermline, who were relegated from the Scottish Premier League last season.

Clubs from both the SPL and the English Championship were tracking De Vries, although Cardiff denied any interest.

"We are delighted to get someone of Dorus' calibre," Swans boss Roberto Martinez told the Evening Post.

"I'm just pleased to get Dorus signed because it's an important department of the team and it's one we needed to strengthen after losing Andy Oakes."

Martinez confirmed that De Vries will compete for the Swansea number one jersey with last season's first choice, Frenchman Willy Gueret.

De Vries impressed in his one season with Dunfermline after being released by Den Haag last summer.

His East End Park career ended on a sour note, however, as a blunder against Inverness in a 2-1 loss consigned the Pars to relegation from the SPL.

De Vries began his career at Stormvogels Telstar before moving to Den Haag in 2003 where he played alongside another new Swans signing, midfielder Ferrie Bodde

[Jibbers]

Dorus De Vries He sounds more like a latin name for a pansy flower than a keeper

[PulsarJack]

Some scotty type people have said he was one of the finest keepers the SPL has seen. Its good to see the Den Haag connections still working great. And its always good to get one over the local rivals who were also supposedly chasing him.

[Jibbers]

Yea but when did they ever play football in Scotland Just listening to Roddy Forsyth get his 10 seconds in on a 6 hour 5 live programme is enough to make you think that the football there is less than 'average' played by 'below average' players.

[lfc junkie]

Dorus de Vries = Dick the Freezing-one in english. dutch ppl have stupid names.
That's because they laughed with napoleons regulations, one of those regulations was that everybody had to have a last name. The dutch thought it was funny to invent stupid names. They assumed that those regulations would fall away when napoleon was beaten, but they didnt and their grand-grand-grandchildren are still made fun of by that.