Fave player of the Future!

1) Drenthe
2) Babel
3) Afellay

Although I feel Afellay and Babel are already the present. They still have to demonstrate with the national team but in my opinion they are both ready.

1. Tim Krul
2. Drenthe
3. Afellay
4. Bruins
5. Aissati
6. Donk

Babel and Maduro don’t seem to me that should belong to this list, although they really are still young.

1. Ibrahim Afellay
2. Ryan Babel
3. Nacer Barazite

Posted from  Singapore

1. Affelay
2. Donk
3. Bruins
4. Drenthe
5. Aisatti

Posted from  Netherlands

1. Ibrahim Afellay
2. Ryan Babel
3. Royston Drenthe
4. Hedwiges Maduro
5. Arnold Kruiswijk

I’m impressed about Arnold Kruiswijk performance in Final Euro U-21 last year.

No Piet Velthuizen? Dirk Marcellis?

If with include him mine would be as follows:

1. Ibrihim Afelley
2. Dirk Marcellis
3. Piet Velthuizen
4. Nordin Amrabat
5. Siem de Jong

Posted from  Republic Of Korea

Difficult for me to say because I haven’t seen half of them play, but from the ones I’ve seen play:

Royston Drenthe
Ibrahim Afellay
Luigi Bruins

So who’s the guy in the video Jan?

Posted from  Canada

drenthe
babel
affelay

Posted from  Hungary

In no particular order:
Siem de Jong (kind of reminds me of Cocu)
Bruins
Donk

Players not on the list that will emerge:
Gregory van der Wiel
John Goosens

Posted from  United States

@stephen; who’s John Goose(ns)? where does he play. never heard of the guy

@bruce; forgot about Macellis..ill replace Aisatti for him on my list

btw off topic; looks like Rijkaard is out and Guardiola will take over, spanish press reckon it will be announced on thursday

btw2; looks like Martin Jol will be the next HSV manager..my friends from Hamburg still ‘going dutch”

Posted from  Netherlands

@goose, john goossens, left winger Ajax, 19yrs old
Jan had a write up on him a little while ago:
http://netherlands.worldcupblog.org/1/john-goossens-joins-ajax-1.html

Posted from  United States

ta stephen… hes not in the U21 is he??

Posted from  Netherlands

not sure

Posted from  United States

here’s how he looks;

http://www.ajax.nl/web/show/id=45609/dbid=11155/team=1/typeofpage=55719

did some reading up; i know he played some games at the start of the season 2007 (played a game v Rangers) and trained with the first team until he got injured in oktober, he now plays with Jong-ajax (youth team of Ajax) but even there he isnt a regular…maybe this info is dated but this was the situation 2 months ago…me guess isnt in the U21 team at the moment

Posted from  Netherlands

He’s my shot in the dark. I’ve never seen him play to be honest, but a left-winger with a name like that, he’s got to make it big…hahaha

Posted from  United States

I’ve been keeping an eye on John Goossens too since he’s a star in the 2005 u17 euro champ and world cup, along with Krul, Bisewar, Sarpong, Anita, Marcellis, Emnes, etc.
He and Sarpong (or Anita) caught the eye of Arnesan at Chelsea after that tournament and luckily they rejected that.

Sarpong gets a couple of games at Ajax first team latey, lot’s of praise for him in the latest 2nd leg playoff match report against Heerenveen.

Too bad Krul’s been injuried for months, would like to see him at Olympics, although he won’t play anyways.

Really hope to see Goossens playing for Ajax first team next season, I think Van Basten kind of like him too. Marco once invited him and Anita to train with the national team.

Posted from  Canada

Marcellis
Donk
Bruins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqEsQ-OztyE&feature=related

Very cool clip on Marcellis.

Affelay
Marcellis
Sim de Jong
Donk
Drenthe

Posted from  Canada

30 man squad for EC08 anounced by marco:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=532418&cc=5901

Posted from  Canada

Jan another really good ones are Rodney Sneijder, Geoffrey Castillion and Boy Waterman. Sneijder and Castillion are playing in the U-17 Championships, and they lost their first match 3-0 to turkey, Castillion got 7 goals in 5 matches in qualifying. THey both have a contract with Ajax.

If you let me use them.

1. Drenthe
2. Castillion
3. Siem de Jong

If not.

1. Drenthe
2. Siem de Jong
3. Affelay

Posted from  Canada

i havent watched much of these yong players who play in dutch league.
i once or twice watched de ridder play for b’gham during mid october n he was outstanding. Babel needs to improve much bcoz he looks somewhat disappointing during the course of the match but he can surprise the defenders with his great run n sooting skill. Drenthe looks impressive n he is the future. got great pace good mentalilty n good physiccal stregth

Posted from  Nepal

Royston Drenthe
Ibrahim Afellay
Luigi Bruins

Haven’t seen much of these kids though.

Posted from  Japan