New candidates for Oranje available soon :-)
Frank Rijkaard is losing credits in Barcelona, according to Spanish papers Marca. Last season, Rijkaard didn’t win any price and this season the competition start looks bleak.
Against Osasuna and Santander, Barcelona drew goalless nil-nils… Only in the Bilbao home game Rijkaard’s team snatched the three points (3-1).
Due to this bad beginning, Barca is trailing four points behind rival Real Madrid. Wednesday, French champs Olympique Lyon drop in for the CL and next Sunday Sevilla is their guest. Like Real, Sevilla - winner of the UEFA cup - didn’t spill any points.
For Rijkaard, it’s important that Barca wins both matches. According to Marca, Rijkaard will be presented the bill if the results will remain under par.
In London, Martin Jol gets three more matches before the Spurs management wants to evaluate the Dutch man’s work again, in October.
After the Arsenal match ( 3-1 defeat) Jol lashed out to the press: “There’s two worlds, there is the world you, the press, create and the world the fans live in. But the more negativity you bring, the more the fans will absorb it.” The players have declared to fully support their coach. “We work very hard and truly believe we will get back on track. It’s not like Jol is now suddenly a bad coach because we had a couple of bad results.”
Tottenham Hotspur invested significantly last summer and currently holds the 17th place in the EPL.
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Jan: don’t forget that marca is a madrid based sports newspaper,usually they don’t weite the true about barca. they are really-really biased. i read an interview with our president and he didn’t say anything about rijkaard. even he was satisfied with game - i saw it too,and we might have seen two different games… anyway marca always tries to seem panic at the blaugranas. http://www.sport.es write the truth (at least about barca,but they as biaised toward real as marca is toward barca.)
i would say that marca always writes bullshit about barca. people say that perez is behind them.
i’m not worried,2 years ago we started as slowly as rhis year and finally we won everything. but unfortunately ronnie is no more the same as he was… iniesta (one of my little fav. player) is getting better and better.
martin jol is a different story…
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I can’t believe the Tottenham board! Jol gave them two 5th place finishes in two years, and was very unlucky to not get champions league football in at least one of those years. That is the best they have done in a long time. Just because they loose a few games (mostly from lack of concentration), doesn’t mean he is all of a sudden a bad coach, like the players are saying.
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I can’t believe the Tottenham board! Jol gave them two 5th place finishes in two years, and was very unlucky to not get champions league football in at least one of those years. That is the best they have done in a long time. Like the players are saying,just because they loose a few games (mostly from lack of concentration), doesn’t mean he is all of a sudden a bad coach.
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JOL JOL JOL
HE HAS NO HAIR
BUT WE DONT CARE !!
hahah…lets have Jol lead us to EC08 eternal glory
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Jan:
Is there a real feeling in Holland that van Basten is getting axed before Euro 08 even if we qualify?. It seems to me that everybody who loves Dutch football is tired about his errors and things will change a lot for him in the coming months, for me he will be gone before this year ends, but let´s see. I can´t understand why the KNVB would let him fly at Euro 08 when we all know what is gonna happen with him as a coach. With van Basten as the bondscoach at 2008 we will not even make it to the top four, and we certainly can make a ridiculous display if he stays at the helm.
We want a van Gaal, van Hanagem, Rijkaard, Hidding, de Haan…some real coach, not an aprentice!




I just hope that Frankie doesn’t have a disgraceful exit from Barca,he is probably the only Dutch at Barca now.Always followed him as a Milan player,great ‘midfield general’.Like Barca a lot also.I think the Barca 92-94 team was one of the alltime best teams.What players they had - Stoichkov,Romario,Zubizarreta,Sanchez and Koeman.Still remember that EC final goal of Ronald Koeman against Sampadoria at Wembley.
@Jan,were u a professional player in Holland?
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I really don’t know what “the Dutch people” think… I do know there’s a lot of people complaining about Oranje, but people always do… They did with Van Gaal, with Advocaat… I don’t know. We don’t see things straight. Let me post something on that, ok?
Dr M, I didn’t play pro football, no :-). I lived close to Willem van Hanegem and knew his son. We played football on the street together and sometimes Willem would join in.
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barca-lyon 3-0:-)
it was so-so nice to see frankie and neeskens so happy after our 3rd goal!!
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@ferenc; great to see Henry got his goal… been a long time since ive seen Rijkaard that happy… did you see that press conference a few days ago?? he sounded really pissed..think there was some pressure building..guess thats gone now (for a while)
grtz
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