The players to look our for include Ghanaian striker Matthew Amoah, Belgian strike partner Bob Peeters and former Sheffield Wednesday defender Dejan Stefanovic. Youngster John Van Beukering and Emile Mbama also pose a threat.
They did, however, lose out on star player Victor Sikora in the summer, with Ajax snapping him up from under the noses of Fulham. Ex Dutch great Ronald Koeman quit the club the previous summer in the wake of serious financial troubles.
Vitesse coincidentally share the same year of formation at Liverpool, 1892. Sander Westerveld, of course, signed for Liverpool from Vitesse.