Arsene Wenger’s pub wisdom

Great article on the Professor, Jan. He is tremendous.

BTW, BVM to use RVP as main striker of Oranje.

http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/140/world-cup-2010/2009/11/08/1611414/robin-van-persie-to-become-hollands-main-striker-dutch-coach

Posted from  India

Agragami that article is a copy of a Dutch article which Jan also translated A LOT BETTER …BVM acknowledges vP ’s position and basically admits right now vP is the better striker. Right now he would use vP as such but Hunter is still the best “target man” .

Posted from  Singapore

Yeah, Carlos, translation is a literary art. and, Jan does a hell of a job of it. Kudos.

You are right. Hunter is still the best target man. Right now RVP is on fire giving BVM fantastic options. But I pray the upcoming friendly stirs Hunter into form and he gains his place among Milan starters to pound goals the way he did at Real Madrid after the initial slump.

Posted from  India

*elia is playing impressive ,he scored and gave a decisive ball now hamburg lead 2-1
*venegoor scored a last minute winner for hull
*milan won and huntelaar of course played… 0 minutes!!!( fourth choice behind pato boriello and inzaghi who all played a part..)

I think its getting better for Van der Vaart because at least he plays in most games (late sub) but it seems as though he is the next choice behind kaka and xabi alonso. So hopefully with lots of games and some injuries going our way then I think he will get his chance. Anyway, at least he’s not in the reserves anymore.

Posted from  United States

Sneijder does not start for inter but do not worry, he is still first choice probably just getting a rest. I imagine he will come on soon in the second half cause Inter are losing 1-0.

Good to here about Eljero Elia

sneijder enters at half time

ill tell you how he plays

W.d.Wiel played awfully i find today.. was owned by stock time and time again.. he was also at fault for the goal, left his man take the header unchallenged.

sneijder played ok/well .. dynamic, determined , good passes, good creativity.

Posted from  Norway

sneijder dynamic today? hmmm not sure. Was pretty much invisible i thought most of the half. Yeah sure a couple of nice touches here and there but didnt impose himself.

Posted from  New Zealand

Hey, lets be a little more positive. Every weekend it’s yea we have no players playing today except for 1 player, but he was terrible today anyway. Lots of countries don’t have their superstars playing all that well, but we have Sneijder, van Persie, Elia, Robben, and Kuyt playing consistently well, week in, week out, and we can even count VDS. Just think, things could be a whole lot worse, we could be in a playoff right now and all of our players were still at Madrid never playing or even worse like Liverpool.

Posted from  United States

Marc – thats the positive spirit I like to see too !!!
We are far better off than most…and its a VERY long wait till July 11. There will be so many friendlies in April/May for testing players and BVM makes his final choice around 31st May.

Posted from  Singapore

MARC AND CARLOS

That is great

I also have a thought

I remember in the last Bert VM interveiw he said that he wanted to end qualifications with the same team that started them. Now that qualifications are over I think he might test players a little more.

I like some policies of BVM.But his favoritism is too much. I reckon vanbommel will not play for bayern in next season.Bayern lost their half power by selling Ze Roberto.what a big mistake!. I respect BVM’s decision to keep huntlaar. My intusion is saying that hunter will get the golden boot in 2010SA.How about that?.Every body see Maduro as a central diffender.This guy has topclass brilliance for international foot ball and he can play much better than vanbommel in holding position if we give him a chance he will prove that.i think Maduro,Vlaar,Emmanuelson deserves the call.I think schaars,Vanbommel,Mendes are not perfoming well,Van bommel faced a heavy criticism from Kaiser.Off course Leroy doesn’t have experience but de saaw and maduro are experienced.why he is not giving a chance to maduro and de saaw?.De saaw is always benched.but the wonder thing is still he has some consideration for kuyt as a central striker.how foolish it is!I would say an inexperience castaginos is much more prolific than kuyt in central position.

Posted from  India

@fares and sonneveld.
Elia =Roban+kuyt…ie Teriffic skills,trickery+Hardwork,we need such kind of players.No wonder he is doing well.it not a surprise buddies.

Posted from  India

how about…
=————EDVS——————-

Vaderweil—Vlaar–Mathijenson–Bauma

———-Maduro—-De saaw———-

Roban——Znijder———–Elia

———–RVP——————-

Posted from  India

honestly,at the moment i don’t mind too much about the world cup. forms will change,benchwarmers will find new clubs,friendlies in november are not important (actually i’m against them because in november – except the world cup qualifiers – club football is more important than international football and i don’t want to see players getting injured in pointless friendlies). the agenda of the top clubs is very busy and they really don’t need extra games for their best players… in may the situation will be completely different,after the cl final everyone will concentrate on the world cup.

@Tiju: nice line up but i’m sure that tomorrow you will have another nice starting eleven actually i don’t think that maduro has any real chance of being selected because he doesn’t play too much at valencia. for me van bommel’s and de jong’s starting position is crystal clear without any question. same with stekelenburg because i’m not sure that vds will change his mind and honestly in the last couple of weeks he was average. bouma still needs playing time. the rest seems all right. huntelaar’s golden boot? don’t think so – if you said van persie i would say maybe but huntelaar…

@ferenc buddy…i know vanbommel will start.that is more tah real.its my dream leave it like that….Orange gets the worldcup that is also a dream.my favorite coach is Maurihno why because he always selects my team…(now i dont follow him inter too often beacuse he is in inter)

Posted from  India

@Tiju: actually i watched yesterday inter.sneijder played in the second half,he was all right,but the whol teamplay was very poor. in italy i have always supported ac milan.

@Marc and Carlos, indeed, we’re not in trouble really when players like Robben , de Jong or Sneijder miss a match or can’t make a difference in such a way that their team wins. Usually it’s not their fault. I would say Robben and Sneijder played OK this weekend, they can’t win every match for their team of course (especially if they only play 45 minutes).

And Kuyt, well Kuyt does what Kuyt does. Braafheid, vd Wiel, well, they’re young and unexperienced, they’re bound to slip up every now and then. There’s still a couple of months to get them some more experience at their clubs at international stage as well as for Oranje.

Van Bommel is the only one that really worries me. His ball handling isn’t fast enough at Bayern. It never was that fast in the first place, but he seemed to be able to speed it up a bit whenever he was playing for Oranje. I wonder if he still has the athleticism to do that (quick turning, quick touches, good first touch, etc.). I also just don’t see him getting into position very fast lately, but maybe that has more to do with Bayern’s playing style or confusion between the players.

Oh, just reading Tiju’s last comment got me thinking about Stankovic yesterday, poor man, normally he’s always shooting himself, I guess someone said something to him about it. Now he was trying to pass all the time and had no luck what so ever with that. Remember that time when he had a possible shot, passed the ball to Sneijder who was marked and could only barely recover the ball, and ultimately the ball ended up back in Stankovic’s feet for a more difficult shot (more range and more defenders in front of it). That wasn’t the only time he was unlucky with his passing, well at least he tried, I felt a bit sorry for the man. I think he got subbed as well.

Posted from  Netherlands

Considering the vdSar vs Stekelenburg issue (which I guess is becoming more of a discussion point now that vdSar is playing again for MU), it’s safe to say I won’t bother to expect us to get passed the groupstages if vdSar isn’t back in our goal, simple as that.

Choosing between vdSar and Stekel for me is like choosing between vPersie and Bakkal, which I think everyone here would agree is an easy choice. And I think that comparing Stekel with Bakkal in this equation is actually doing Stekel a favor, since the difference between vdSar and Stekel is a lot more than the difference between vPersie and Bakkal.

(I was first going to declare that if vdSar doesn’t come back and Stekel plays I wasn’t going to bother watching the WC at all, but I guess I’ll watch it in frustration anyway).

Posted from  Netherlands

I for one will personally guarentee that we will make it out of the groupstages without van der sar. Are team is way to good for that nonsense.

Why compare Van Persie to bakkal? Different positions, and I know you were comparing them in quality but compare van Persie to van wolfswinkel or something.

in arsene we trust