Only one thing can save Marco van Basten

Read Boulahrouz is being linked with Arsenal. Not surprisingly, reactions from english lowlife who these days even have internet available, aren’t too positive, last thing they saw of him was in 2006 in a very bad game where he got a red card, only thing they remember are his bad games, him excelling against for example Barcelona just tends to be forgotten. Anyway, i see his style as more fit for italian Serie A, I think he couldn’t perform well with this beerbellied trash calling him names all the time.

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As for this piece, i agree with Nico. It makes me sad to have seen v.Basten fall this hard. It would be too bad if he quits altogether, i think if he were to have experienced people around him he could become a very good coach eventually. Rijkaard didn’t succeed at first either, but V.Basten started way bigger at Ajax, so that counts extra.

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Completely off topic (and a little over the top perhaps) but what do you think Cristiano Ronaldo is thinking…

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He’s thinking, what is that, i’ve never seen something like that before. and then he starts pondering, am i causing it, is he gay too? Would he want to get with me? no really, it looks as if Ronaldo is stunned by the sight of it.

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I think van Basten made a terrible mistake quiting Ajax. It is true that he had a bad year but if you look at PSV and Feyenoord he did better with his Ajax than those teams…AZ simply had a great season. Marco had a very poor Ajax in terms of quality and he is not guilty for everything what happened…He should have stayed and with some reinforcements he could have done something for next season, he had the board´s support and although the pressure is tough the advantage of the Dutch league for him is that he can learn his trade there…now where to go?. The Premiership, La Liga, Calcio, Bundesliga???. Who would hire him there???. Perhaps in Dubai he will find something.

Anyway, he has not shown anything as a coach yet neither in the National team or Ajax. He was very impacient because he has to know that Ajax is in a bad period now, they lost Sneijder, van der Vaart, Babel, Heitinga, Maduro, Huntelaar in the last few years and there has not been a new set of players capable to replace them properly. I think he is tired of the job and doesn´t enjoy coaching. In the National team he stayed in the position for four years because the KNVB let him do whatever he wanted like if Oranje was a “toy” but he should have been fired after WC06 without an explanation. Benching Holland´s best striker against Portugal in the last ten years (RVN) for me was painful to watch and his stupid lineups and selections of players were sorry as we all know as well as his problems with some big names like Seedorf, Ruud and van Bommel. But the National team is a much bigger package than Holland. He should have resigned in the National team in 2006 and not now in Ajax because the place to learn for him was his home club…I think he has two options now. Enjoy his life playing golf and cards with his buddies or really take some coaching lessons,courses and reflect on his decisions and be more patient and humble if he ever wants to coach again. He wants to win everything but in order to do that you have be prepared and he certainly is not ready for that.

I remember how a Frank Rijkaard failed at Sparta Rotterdam and in the National team(not wining Euro 2000 in Holland and with that great squad for me was a failure)and then had big success in Barcelona. Will van Basten follow that path in a big European team or is he lost?. What do you think my dear friends?.

I meant benching Holland´s best striker in the last ten years (RVN)against Portugal for me was painful to watch …hehe sorry guys…

i think Mario that rijkaard didn’t fail with the national team. 2 penalties in 90 minutes and the shot-out,it wasn’t his mistake. i have never ever seen such a morbid game in my life. his oranje played beautiful football.
marco: galliani said that they hadn’t think about marco as milan’s next coach (i would bet that frank will be the one). he should have one sabbatic year and try after abroad. italy or spain. too bad that ajax is such a looser team with not too many young talents and a business policy that doesn’t work at all. how could be someone a good manager the best players are always sold?
my opinion: marco should become milan’s manager because there’s a lot to do there – they need to change half of the squad. marco really likes this kind of jub,just remember what he did at oranje. sure,he did it in an ugly way,but at milan this is exactly what needed. but i underline: 80% that frank will follow ancelotti (who might become chelsea’s next manager – he’s a very good coach,a nice person but not harsh enough with big ego players).

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Ferenc:

Holland´s team for Euro 2000 was way better than the Italians and still Italy eliminated the Dutch team. Oranje was at home and played almost the whole game with an extra player because Zambrotta was red carded. I know the penalties and many things that happened in that game were out of this world but it was the best chance to win an Euro for that generation of players and Rijkaard didn´t have the experiencie to win against the Italians although I accept that the players didn´t help him with the penalties. If Argentina wouldn´t have won against the Netherlands in 1978 nobody would say today that Menotti was a great coach. They would say that he was at home and that he and his players missed that big opportunity. It´s the same with Holland in 2000 although a World Cup has a bigger meaning.

Rijkaard was unexperienced back then when he managed Holland and after a few years he showed at Barcelona that he can be a good coach although some analysis suggest that he doesn´t know how to handle certain type of players in the dressing room, I personally don´t think so. Van Basten is in a situation where he has to decide if coaching is for him but what I take out of this is that KNVB is so stupid appointing unexperienced coaches and because of that we have lost the opportunity to do better in the last two major tournaments like the WC and Euro. Hopefully now with Bert van Marwijk we can at least reach the semifinals although I personally think that Holland needs a World Cup in its palmares to be recognized as a real winner. Keep the faith alive!!!

JC, Willem and all other greats have always said: football is in the details. You only have the ball as an individual player for maybe 3 or 4 minutes max per game. A goal is scored in 30 seconds (look at Sneijder’s against Italy). It’s in the details.

In 2000, Rijkaard showed he had the right people skills and all to be a good coach, but when it came to the crunch, he lacked that savvyness that Hiddink and Van Gaal and Adriaanse and Ferguson and Benitez have gained in many years of making mistakes… There is no such thing as being a great coach at that very young age. I fear for Pep Guardiola against Man U…

@jan dont fear about pep guardiola.its dependd the gutz and determination of the players and not in the hands of coach.

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