Comments on: Who needs to succeed Van Basten?

By: tjeerd

tjeerd — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 01:19:23 +0000

I am half friesian, as my name will tell. That puts me in Foppe’s De haan’s camp.
I find the man is well respected, and seems to have a strong moral character. Players could well connect.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:13:20 +0000

hi jan,
actually i didnt know Lucescu before seeing shaktar play in champions league…i liked the way they played & then i googled his name & saw this article in guardian on him where he advocated the idea of playing total football!!& it definitely seems like his team tries to play some good stuff…ofcourse everything “matter-of-factly” bout him can be found on wiki.
In india ofcourse its impossible to see shaktar play on regular basis.

By: tiju

tiju — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:24:01 +0000

MY candidates for coach
1 foppe de haan
2 franc raikard
3 cryuff (can you belive it ot not)this man can change the way of orange

By: tiju

tiju — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:21:19 +0000

@goose

By: tiju

tiju — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:18:09 +0000

Hi guys ,
@wat yarr do you know my english is not so good.i know only one language that is malayalam you know that ,nice i enjoyed your high standard comment.but remmember i am enterly different i can predict the results of organe more over i belive i am good analyst in soccer.in comming days all friends in this blog will come to know that so lets count down 1, 2 till june 9 and so on.up to.
1.We donot have a motivating manager(mentor)
2.We do not have gutsy confident players(actullly we have but we are not taking them)
3So wat we need.?
4.An experienced holding midfeilder req nos-2 who can fill up this position
Davids can fill up this position with high physical hard working and mentality, who else ?can bommmel?can dek saaw?can Maduro?can schaars? i will opt schaars .
diffence?
our diffence will be higly shaky against france,portugal,brazil,arjentina even ivory coast etc why?this is the time should look in to young bloods instead of going behind van bronk,ooiger those are all temparary adjustments.
WE need gutsy and talented players in MID and front like castelen,drenthe(especially if roban not fit we should take drenthe)
when can we expect shaars and luirink and varrl?
i am thinking abt 23 man sqad instead of first 11.
we need equal subs in each position.
442
MY goal keepers
vander sar
stekelen burg
boy waterman
My front four
nestel rooy-hantlaar
Ryan babbel-Van persie
MY mid 8
vaart-zedorf
castelen-znjder
davids-schaars
Drenthe-roban
my diif 8
van bronk/urby/ donk any two but i will prefer urby/donk
luirink-vaarl
mathjenson-ooiger
heitinga assured but pair who?melchiot/kromp camp any one
my first eleven will be like this
RVN-RVP
drenthe/vaart/castelen with holding mid Davids
Donk LB
luirink CB
ooiger CB
Heitinga RB
hoping for the fitness of davids,schaars,luirink ,vaarl.

By: Ronald

Ronald — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:51:31 +0000

To me, I would like Huubs Stevens…but he will coach PSV next season..
Maybe another day…

By: Jan

Jan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:29:40 +0000

Haha…!! Good point… I like that. Shaktar is definitely an interesting team. What do you know about him?

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:09:24 +0000

ok just for the heck of it(since all the canonical names have been covered),i am gonna throw in an unlikely name…Mircea Lucescu(current shakhtar donetsk coach)…he is 1 of the very few current coaches(along with frank & hiddink) who make their team play pretty nice stuff(almost tends to total football at times)…

By: Lerkot

Lerkot — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:04:25 +0000

Miguel Rosado: He also destroyed it by signing a dozen shit players for ridicolous amounts of money.

By: Miguel Rosado

Miguel Rosado — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:19:41 +0000

@ferenc: How can you say Louis failed at Barcelona!!!. He won La Liga 2 times in 1999 and in 1998, and La Copa del Rey in 1998.