Comments on: Why Real Madrid doubts Rafael van der Vaart… http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html World Cup 2010 - South Africa, Oranje, Nederlands Elftal, Eredivisie, Marco van Basten, Dutch football, The Netherlands Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:18:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: ferenc http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161643 ferenc Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:27:40 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161643 last news: Real Madrid To Use Van Der Vaart To Sign Young? http://www.goal.com/en/news/1705/real-madrid/2008/12/23/1026109/madrid-to-use-van-der-vaart-to-sign-young last news: Real Madrid To Use Van Der Vaart To Sign Young?

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]]> By: ferenc http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161641 ferenc Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:57:21 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161641 @Caleb: sure,you're right. but in my posts i trie to do something very difficult: take real madrid and dutch players apart. believe me,on this blog - with respect to our real madrid boys - i'm not as harsh towards les merengues as elsewhere or in real life (where i consider them as arch ennemy). to be honest,i'm very unhappy to see so many dutch players there and no one at barca (it was always the opposite),but on the other hand,in the current barca starting eleven it wouldn't be place for any of them (and this team is so-so great). i can see only one dutch in barca: abidal is our weakest point,we still need someone who's able to do the same as gio did. emanuelson could replace abidal (but it seems that zhirkov will be the one who replaces abidal). and since henry's getting old,and i know that barca's board has a good relationship with arsenal and they observe robin van persie. in 1-2 years,when henry stops robin could easily become blaugrana. @Caleb: sure,you’re right. but in my posts i trie to do something very difficult: take real madrid and dutch players apart. believe me,on this blog – with respect to our real madrid boys – i’m not as harsh towards les merengues as elsewhere or in real life (where i consider them as arch ennemy). to be honest,i’m very unhappy to see so many dutch players there and no one at barca (it was always the opposite),but on the other hand,in the current barca starting eleven it wouldn’t be place for any of them (and this team is so-so great). i can see only one dutch in barca: abidal is our weakest point,we still need someone who’s able to do the same as gio did. emanuelson could replace abidal (but it seems that zhirkov will be the one who replaces abidal). and since henry’s getting old,and i know that barca’s board has a good relationship with arsenal and they observe robin van persie. in 1-2 years,when henry stops robin could easily become blaugrana.

]]> By: Caleb http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161640 Caleb Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:40:24 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161640 @Ferenc - I always smile when I read your posts because it's obvious how much you love Barca. It's also obvious how much you hate Real and so your posts are always have a bit of Real-bashing/anti-Real bias in them. I hope Real can outperform your pessimistic standards this year, at least for the sake of our Dutch players ;-) @Ferenc – I always smile when I read your posts because it’s obvious how much you love Barca. It’s also obvious how much you hate Real and so your posts are always have a bit of Real-bashing/anti-Real bias in them. I hope Real can outperform your pessimistic standards this year, at least for the sake of our Dutch players ;-)

]]> By: Jan http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161613 Jan Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:15:24 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161613 I remember Calderon specifically mentioning that Real would only sign players who could play with Real in the CL, in other words: no players from other CL teams. I remember Calderon specifically mentioning that Real would only sign players who could play with Real in the CL, in other words: no players from other CL teams.

]]> By: Igor http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161606 Igor Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:03:02 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161606 @Dirk, teams are indeed require to submit their rosters for CL (25 men?) at the begining of the season, but that roster is only used to the end of the group stages. so now teams will be able to submit a second (revised) roster for the knock-out stages, and as other people have mentioned, there is a new uefa rule in place this year allowing players who participate in the uefa cup to be eligible for the CL in the same year in case of a transfer (under the previous rule, Hunter would have been cup tied and unable to play CL for real) @Dirk, teams are indeed require to submit their rosters for CL (25 men?) at the begining of the season, but that roster is only used to the end of the group stages. so now teams will be able to submit a second (revised) roster for the knock-out stages, and as other people have mentioned, there is a new uefa rule in place this year allowing players who participate in the uefa cup to be eligible for the CL in the same year in case of a transfer (under the previous rule, Hunter would have been cup tied and unable to play CL for real)

]]> By: dirk v.d. Berg http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161605 dirk v.d. Berg Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:14:23 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161605 Are you guys 100% sure that Huntelaar can play, because I was under the understanding that at the beginning of the season teams have to submit a list of players who will be playing in Champions League, and I can imagine that Huntelaar would not have been on Real Madrid's list. I remember this because there was big controversy over Crespo, Ronaldo, and Rosicky not making their respective team's lists. Are you guys 100% sure that Huntelaar can play, because I was under the understanding that at the beginning of the season teams have to submit a list of players who will be playing in Champions League, and I can imagine that Huntelaar would not have been on Real Madrid’s list. I remember this because there was big controversy over Crespo, Ronaldo, and Rosicky not making their respective team’s lists.

]]> By: Bart http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161602 Bart Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:41:13 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161602 To be fair Marchena should have been sent off earlier for almost ripping Salgado's head off his body :p To be fair Marchena should have been sent off earlier for almost ripping Salgado’s head off his body :p

]]> By: ferenc http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161601 ferenc Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:30:34 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161601 yes,robben was the man of the match and surprisingly he was less selfish as usually. but i didn't like his antics (when marchena was sent off). vdv played better than recently but he was substituted with the young catalan guy - a traitor - who's been playing since his childhood for madrid (don't know his name). guti had a bad day and if he continues like this i easily imagine vdv and sneijder playing at the same time. it's up to the tactics - if they need 2 holding midfielders obviously there won't be place enough for both but at the bernabeu they usually play offensive football (not like yesterday). drenthe is the same: he doesn't give any plus to the team,runs like hell but with no brain. he has no place in the starting eleven. after the u-23 ec he was highly overrated. but huntelaar and higuain might form a very interesting partnershinp. anyway real will struggle for the 2nd-4th place with valencia,villareal,sevilla and atletico madrid. robben might be a candidate for next year ballon d'or but for this he shouldn't be too often injured, real madrid should win something (they won't). but i'm quite sure (and hope) that 2009 will be messi's year. @goose: at real-liverpool do you support real or pool? i obviously support pool (my favourite english team - and babel is one of my favourite dutch players) yes,robben was the man of the match and surprisingly he was less selfish as usually. but i didn’t like his antics (when marchena was sent off). vdv played better than recently but he was substituted with the young catalan guy – a traitor – who’s been playing since his childhood for madrid (don’t know his name). guti had a bad day and if he continues like this i easily imagine vdv and sneijder playing at the same time. it’s up to the tactics – if they need 2 holding midfielders obviously there won’t be place enough for both but at the bernabeu they usually play offensive football (not like yesterday). drenthe is the same: he doesn’t give any plus to the team,runs like hell but with no brain. he has no place in the starting eleven. after the u-23 ec he was highly overrated. but huntelaar and higuain might form a very interesting partnershinp. anyway real will struggle for the 2nd-4th place with valencia,villareal,sevilla and atletico madrid.
robben might be a candidate for next year ballon d’or but for this he shouldn’t be too often injured, real madrid should win something (they won’t). but i’m quite sure (and hope) that 2009 will be messi’s year.
@goose: at real-liverpool do you support real or pool? i obviously support pool (my favourite english team – and babel is one of my favourite dutch players)

]]> By: sonneveld http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161598 sonneveld Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:07:24 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161598 vdv hit a post vdv hit a post

]]> By: Carlos http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html/comment-page-1#comment-161597 Carlos Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:42:48 +0000 http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/why-real-madrid-doubts-rafael-van-der-vaart.html#comment-161597 Oh and VdV did start for Real's win over second placed Valencia. Robben was a star again ! Oh and VdV did start for Real’s win over second placed Valencia. Robben was a star again !

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