Robben, Sneijder, Davids…

me not happy!

Posted from  United States

me neither, i wanted robben to leave chelsea so bad, i have the feeling he can do very well in spain with real becuase the way spanish teams play fits him more than the ugly chelsea.

Posted from  United States

me neither, i wanted robben to leave chelsea so bad, i have the feeling he can do very well in spain with real becuase the way spanish teams play fits him more than the ugly chelsea.

Posted from  United States

me always happy

@alaa; as i understand, Mourinho wants to change tactics, hell leave the system with the diamond on midfield wich was created to let Lampard and Balak play together on midfield…Balak hasnt impressed anybody in London so Mourinho will let it go…this means better tactics for the wingers!!
i dont think its that bad that (if, when) Robben stays at Chelsea, they can play great if they adapt their system, they have the quality to play great.. maybe Mourinho has seen the light now…

told you guys Sneijder wouldnt leave (also told a lot of bs so, haha), think hes very frustrated cause he thinks hes too big to play in the dutch leg., will be interesting to see how his mental health is…i have my doubts!

to bad for Edgar, this may well be an career ending injury

Posted from  Netherlands

Clarification: me not happy! (about Edgar)

Posted from  United States

i really hope that edgar will continue in mid october without any problem.
happy that sneijder stay at ajax. robben? if jose changes the tactics and play with wingers it’ll be fine for him. nalouda,drogba,robben or robben,drogba,malouda. anyway if he regularly in the starting 11 he should stay and not go to madrid.

Posted from  Hungary

abouth drenthe’s transfer options: http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=478270&CPID=9&clid=198&lid=2&title=Barca+enter+Drenthe+chase

Posted from  Hungary

thanks ferenc; im surprised Drenthe has changed agents though Lens is very well known
my guess (and its only a guess) is that Drenthe will stay in Rotterdam this season and he remains to be seen if all those clubs are as eager then as they are now to contract the lad…
if he plays not so good or if he gets injured Feyenoord will have a lot more problems selling him and im very sure they need the money in Rotterdam-Zuid

can anybody fill me in on this Malouda guy.. know nothing about the guy, weres he from, were does he play???

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

btw @Stephen: did you watch all the ‘74 tapes???
did you actually watch the final or did you follow my advise and put out the video/dvd after the first 5 minutes???

what did you make of the Brasil game…great, great game wasnt it (and dirty aswell)?

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

Malouda is the left winger /midfielder of Olympique Lyon and the French National team. 26 years old or something. Fast, explosive, skilled… A real competitor to Robben I’d say.

Just read that Ajax wants to hire Shinji Ono - the former Feyenoord midfielder - for a year from Red Diamonds :-).

Posted from  Australia

Ono is a fine player, always thought he was not a real Feyenoord player (you know what i mean), cant wait for the competition to start, everybody will be watching Feyenoord, interesting to see if they can handdle that..

thanx for the info ;still think Robben is one of the best dribblers(?) in the world today, i think hell show us all this year

also heard that vanPersie is fit again, is he or vdVaart our new leader in Oranje??

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

I agree with your Ono comment. He was too smart for Feyenoord. He’ll do well with Ajax, although he is not the Davids-type.
I agree on Robben. If he “has” it, he really “has” it…

I heard that v Persie and vd Vaart had some competence issues in the youth teams at Oranje. Robin was the boss at Feyenoord, Raf at Ajax but at Oranje Raf was the man and Robin was benched. But I do feel they go well together.

Posted from  Australia

Think vanderVaart has really grown as a captain due to the dismal season HSV had this year..he has learned to play hard and has learned to play in the relegation zone thats something very unuasual for these kind of players..in the youth the all beat their opponants with 14 or 15 goals and they are the stars..its all too easy

but now vanderVaart has become a real man (mentally) so i think hes the best possible captain (much better than vanderSar who is a good goalie but certainly not a leader / natural captain..actually never liked vdSar but dont tell anybody!!haha)

will be interesting; we all know how vanPersie behaved at Feyenoord with vanHooydonk, Bosveld etc., he has problems with authority..would he play ‘under’ vanderVaart??

Posted from  Netherlands

“to bad for Edgar, this may well be an career ending injury”

Thats bullsh, it will not be an career ending injury. Broken legs are usually pretty easy to recover from.

it depends Lerkot; if its a ‘nice’ break it can be over in 2-3 months, if its not it can take longer..

its not like Davids is 19..hes 35 so thats a difference, i was just wondering if he could be back like his ussual..

but ok; youre right; its prob. not a career ending thing

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

goose - I havn’t watched all the games yet(busy summer), I am however about half way through the Brazil game. The score is still 0-0, can’t wait to see who wins! haha. Oranje have had most of the possesion so far, but Brazil has had more real chances on goal. The game is more physical than the others. Brazil is trying physically knock Oranje off their game. I don’t think it will work

Posted from  United States

well i wont spoil the fun.. it will get better and better, that i can tell you…watch what happens 5 minutes before the end..hehe.. criminal..

still my advise; dont watch all of the final, the first 5 minutes will do just fine..(im so glad i hadnt to life through that disaster)

grtz

Posted from  Netherlands

Idon’t know… you should watch the rest I think and particularly watch JC’s contribution. Check if you can see if he is played out of the match or whether he is just nog capable of turning the match around. Also, watch German goalie Maier. And check out Jongbloed when the Zjermans score the winner… OOPS… I didn’t give anything away, did I???

Posted from  Australia

Just read that Edgar Davids did not wear shin protectors in the match against the Eagles. He always wears them. In fact, it’s mandatory to wear them in official matches. Davids is the type of pro that would never ever not wear them. But he didn’t. Photo material shows it. Ten Cate admitted it. only Davids stays silent about this mystery. Why didn’t he wear them? According to the KNVB doctor, there’s a fair chance he wouldn’t have broken his leg if he did wear them… Weird.

Posted from  Australia

http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?hlid=478088&CPID=219&clid=14&lid=&title=Babel+defied+Van+Basten

interesting story about babel i stumbled across.

Long time reader btw, just don’t bother to comment, used to though whilst the world cup was on.

Posted from  Australia

Good one, thanks Pete! Good to see you commenting again…

Posted from  Australia

@jan; hehe, its so funny, when you talk about Meier etc. i really dont know what youre talking about.. always put out the video after the penalty, that happened for years until one day when i was not paying attention i looked at the tv and saw the second german goal ,that was only a few years ago and it still pissed me off big time!! its funny how yo u can get traumatised from something that you never actually had to live trough

btw: been watching the TourdeFrance (ofcourse) and now i keep thinking of doping in football, been thinking about the Nandrolon(?) thing with Stam/deBoer/Davids… what do you guys (the ones not on holiday) think?? with all the games nowadays??

Posted from  Netherlands

I am not sure, but I personally don’t get all bent out of shape about it. I don’t think it is criminal activity, just guys trying to gain an edge. That said, the leagues or governing bodies or whatever have every right to institute the rules they wish, and the participants of those leagues must obey or be penalized accordingly. So conceivably you could have doping leagues and a non-doping leagues. Maybe the Eredivisie should become a doping league to catch up with the competition. haha. Though I think it would be a little bizarre to see guys shooting up on the sideline. Don’t let your kids watch. Probably not the healthiest thing to do.

There are too many games though. Maybe the amount of games should be reduced, but that won’t happen for one simple reason - $$. So if I’m a manager of a top club that is competing in Europe, the domestic league and europe come first, everything else(cups etc.) I give to the reserves. Don’t think that would fly to well with managment. Oh well

Posted from  United States

I think doping in European football is very unusual actually. Partly because football is more of a team sport, you have to rely on other peoples abilities than just your own ones. That removes a lot of pressure. Also, biking is more individual so if you get caught you dont have to worry about not being liked by team mates in the future since you dont have to meet them very often.

Ah…what a subject this is… doping… I am appalled with the number of news items coming out of the Tour de France circus. I used to follow it, but I don’t anymore.

But as for doping: I do feel the “Industry” doesn’t know enough (I won’t go into conspiracy plots here) to give definitive statements on what is doping and what’s not. I mean, mariihuana is on the list! The only way marihuana will improve sports results if you put a box of tim-tams beyond the finish line!!!

Doping wouldn’t work in football really. Football is more a game you play with your brains and skills. Doping doesn’t make you smarter and doesn’t improve football skills. It makes you run easier, I guess. I can imagine cyclists benefiting from it, but I wouldn’t want to see Davids or Babel on dope :-).

That whole Davids / De Boer thing was a hoax, in my view. Nandrolon is a substance the body creates and it’s a known fact that some bodies create more than others. Davids was tested many times, and he is one of those people, that generates more nandrolon than the average Joe Blow. I know Davids (through friends of friends, so to speak) and he is a very responsible and serious athlete, who wouldn’t do that stuff to himself. And, let’s be serious here, he wouldn’t need it anyway!! Tyoes like Wim Jonk, Frank Rijkaard and John van ‘t Schip - the mellow ones -could’ve used some, though :-).

I do remember a funny incident in Holland, when a player got hit on the head and ended up with a concussion. Nobody noticed though, so some time in the game, the chap suddenly picked up the ball and went for his own goal! He scored an own goal - everybody though he was crazy!! - and ran away cheering and jumping. He even jumped for the cross bar and started to swing from it!!! Then the club doctor (it was at Excelsior) ran on the pitch and took him in… He was hospitalized…

No real connection with dope of course, but such a good story

Posted from  Australia