I see the opinions on VDW are quite diverse. I have to say I haven't watched that many Ajax games in the past couple of months, but he is definitely a top young RB who pretty much always does a very good job in our national team. He's a good all-rounder with excellent ball control for a defender, very pacey and a good shot aswell. He can be a real threat going forward, but he's also very decent in defence.
I see a lot of people arguing about whether he's 'useless defensively but awesome going forward' or the other way around and to be honest, if I had to pick one of the two 'options', I'd say he's better going forward, mainly because he's got a very good touch which allows him to just link up and get involved more. Very confident on the ball.
He's not amazing defensively, but to be fair, how many fullbacks are? He's 23 (?) and is the starting RB for our national team ( yea, not that much competition, I know. ) and did really well during the WC, against some top players. Often enough we're the dominating side aswell, where he is hardly tested, but still.... Then, ofcourse, he has games where he looks a bit out of his depth at times, but wingers are often the trickiest, fastest and simply toughest to play against.
To sum things up, I think he would do fine for us. We'd have a player who's confident on the ball, with a good touch and who gets involved going forward. He's very decent defensively and he showed that often enough for our NT mainly, as many of you consider our league to be somewhat of a joke and not much of a standard anyway. Not having seen all that much of most alternatives mentioned here I can only say I think he'd be more than good enough to start for us.